[Guest post by Richa Saraf, Assistant Legal Advisor at Vinod Kothari & Co.] In the case of M.D. Frozen Foods Exports Pvt. Ltd. v. Hero Fincorp Ltd.,[1] the Supreme Court held that there was no illegality in a non-banking finance company (“NBFC”) invoking the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (“SARFAESI Act”) for recovery of...
Restrictive Remedy under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act
[Guest post by Richa Saraf, Assistant Legal Advisor, Vinod Kothari & Co.] In a recent ruling of the Calcutta High Court in Union Bank of India & Anr. v. State of West Bengal & Ors. (September 1, 2017), the object and intention behind section 14 of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (the “Act”) was discussed. The...
The Death of the “Absolute Interest”
[The following guest post is contributed by Aditya Swarup, who is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School] In the seemingly complex world of corporate finance, creditors often face questions on the kind of security that ought to be taken by the them to support the loan to the borrower, answers to which depend on the relationship between debt and equity of the company. A further...
SARFAESI Amendment: A New Role for Debenture Trustees
[The following post is contributed by Vinod Kothari and Nidhi Bothra of Vinod Kothari & Co. The authors can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected] respectively] Introduction The Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debt Laws and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act, 2016[1] (Amendment Act) has introduced several amendments to the Securitisation and...
Ushering a New Era for ARCs: Stamp Duty Exemption on Assignments
[The following post is contributed by Vinod Kothari and Nidhi Bothra of Vinod Kothari & Co. The authors may be reached at [email protected] and [email protected] respectively] Introduction Assignment of actionable claims/ receivables is achieved by an instrument, and such an instrument requires stamp duty. The United Kingdom (UK), Hong Kong, Malaysia and India are examples of...
Second Leg of SARFAESI: All Transactions to be Registered with CERSAI
[The following guest post is contributed by Niddhi Parmar of Vinod Kothari & Company. The author can be contacted at [email protected]] Introduction The Central Government introduced the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (Central Registry) Amendment Rules, 2016 (hereinafter referred as ‘Amendment Rules, 2016’) on January 22, 2016...
Supreme Court Resolves Conflict Between SARFAESI Act and Companies Act
In Pegasus Asset Reconstruction P. Ltd. v. Haryana Concast Ltd., the Supreme Court was concerned with a conflict between the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (for brevity ‘the SARFAESI Act’) on the one hand and the Companies Act, 1956 on the other. The specific conflict was identified as follows: Whether a Company Court, directly...
Guest Post: Rights of MBS Bondholders Against the Company: Part 2
[The following post is contributed by Nidhi Bothra of Vinod Kothari & Company. The author may be contacted at [email protected] This is continuation of a previous post accessible here] Does a trust put complete cloak over the identity of beneficiaries? In the several rulings discussed in the preivous post, the privity of contract between the bondholders / debenture holders has been put...
Guest Post: Rights of MBS Bondholders against the Company: Part 1
[The following post is contributed by Nidhi Bothra of Vinod Kothari & Company. The author may be contacted at [email protected]] The financial crisis of 2007-08 led to several failed securitization transactions and brought in a storm of litigation in structured products.[1] Post the crisis, several bondholders sued the originators alleging misrepresentations on the quality of loans...
Substance vs. Form Conflict in True Sale | Hong Kong Court Goes by the Language Used by the Parties
(The following post is contributed by Soma Bagaria, who is a Legal Advisor at Vinod Kothari & Company in Kolkata. She can be reached at [email protected]) In every assignment transaction, there has been a constant conflict of whether the substance or form shall dominate while determining the nature of a transaction. There are two schools of thought on this: one which gives dominance to...
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