Tag: Stock Exchanges
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Going for Gold: SEBI Proposes Gold Trading on Exchanges
[Arunimaa Jaiswal is a fourth-year student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar] Through the Union Budget 2021-22, the Government of India notified the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) as the regulator for gold exchanges in India. Upon such notification and in pursuance of the Government’s intention of establishing regulated gold exchanges in the…
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Social Stock Exchange in India: Scrutinizing the Vision
[Prachi Agrawal is a 4th year B.B.A., LL.B. (Business Law Hons.) student and Stuti Bhargava a 4th year B.A., LL.B (Business Law Hons.) student, both at the National Law University, Jodhpur] “It is time to take our capital markets closer to the masses and meet various social welfare objectives related to inclusive growth and financial…
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SEBI’s Karvy Order: Tightening the Screws on Stock Brokers
Late on Friday, 22 November 2019, the Securities and Exchange Board of India passed an order in the case involving Karvy Stock Broking Limited (KSBL). The circumstances surrounding the order are atypical. The urgency of the situation is evident in the fact that the SEBI order, passed very late on 22 November, relies upon a…
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Mergers or Demergers involving Listed Transferor Companies and Unlisted Transferee Companies
[Aishwarya Singh is a lawyer based in Mumbai. The views expressed in the article are personal.] This post discusses the regulatory framework relating to mergers or demergers involving a listed company and an unlisted company, wherein the whole or part of the undertaking, property or liabilities of a listed company, being the transferor company, are…
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SAT Order: Stock Exchanges not to Follow SEBI’s Circulars and Directions Mechanically
[Anand Narayan is a corporate and securities lawyer currently working as an in-house counsel in Mumbai] One has lately witnessed a trend that the stock exchanges, such as NSE, BSE and NCDEX, are following the circulars and directions issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) mechanically without application of mind, which has…
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Cross Listing of Shares: A Start
[Rahul Sinha is a consultant with EY] The Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) constituted the ‘Expert Committee for listing of equity shares of companies incorporated in India on foreign stock exchanges and of companies incorporated outside India on Indian stock exchanges’ on 12 June 2018 with a view to facilitating companies incorporated in…
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FAQs on Borrowing by Large Corporates: Unveiling the Perplexity
[Pammy Jaiswal is a Partner at Vinod Kothari and Company and can be reached at corplaw@vinodkothari.com] Background The untiring efforts of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as well as the Government in uplifting the bond market is quite commendable. SEBI has started taking major steps towards the accomplishment of the budget announcement…
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SEBI Circular on Minimum Public Shareholding
[Sarthak Karol is an associate at a law firm in Mumbai] By way of a Circular dated October 10, 2017, (“Circular”), the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) issued directions to stock exchanges to come down heavily on listed entities, their promoters and directors who are in breach of the 25% minimum public shareholding…
