Amendments to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016, and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Professionals), Regulations 2016.
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board India (IBBI) notified the following regulations on 13th September 2022:
a) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2022, and
b) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Professionals) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2022.
2. The salient features of the amendments effected by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2022 are as under:
(i) The fee of the interim resolution professional or the resolution professional, appointed on or after
1st October 2022 shall be decided by the applicant or committee in accordance with the said amendment regulations.
(ii) An insolvency professional shall be paid minimum fixed fee in the range of one lakh rupee to five lakh rupees, per month, depending on the quantum of claims admitted, as specified under Table-1 of Schedule-II of the said amendment regulations. However, the applicant or committee may decide to fix higher amount of fees than the said minimum fixed fee, after taking into consideration market factors such as size and scale of business operations of corporate debtor, business sector in which corporate debtor operates, level of operating economic activity of corporate debtor and complexity related to process.
(iii) For the resolution plan approved by the committee on or after 1st October 2022, the committee may decide to pay, after approval of such resolution plan by the Adjudicating Authority on commencement of payment to creditors by the resolution applicant, performance-linked incentive fee, not exceeding a total of five crores of rupees;
a. for timely submission of resolution plan to the Adjudicating Authority, as specified under Table-2 of Schedule-II to the said amendment regulations, and/or
b. for value maximisation, at the rate of one per cent of the amount by which the realisable value is higher than the liquidation value, or
c. other than a. or b. above, as the committee may deem necessary.
(iv) The fee under amendment regulation may be paid from the funds, available with the corporate debtor, contributed by the applicant or members of the committee and/or raised by way of interim finance and the same shall be included in the insolvency resolution process cost.
3. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Professionals) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2022 prohibits an insolvency professional from accepting /sharing any fees or charges from any professional and/or support service provider who are appointed under the processes.
4. The said amended regulations are available at www.ibbi.gov.in.
Source: Press Release No. IBBI/PR/2022/35 | Dated: 14th September 2022
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INSOLVENCY AND BANKRUPTCY BOARD OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 13th September, 2022
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2022
No. IBBI/2022-23/GN/REG091.– In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (aa) and (t) of sub-section (1) of section 196 read with section 240 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (31 of 2016), the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016, namely: –
1. (1) These regulations may be called the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2022.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the principal regulations’), the word “Schedule” shall be substituted with the word and mark “Schedule-I”, wherever it is appearing.
3. In the principal regulations, after regulation 34A, the following regulations shall be inserted, namely:-
“34B. Fee to be paid to interim resolution professional and resolution professional.
(1) The fee of interim resolution professional or resolution professional, under regulation 33 and 34, shall be decided by the applicant or committee in accordance with this regulation.
(2) The fee of the interim resolution professional or the resolution professional, appointed on or after 1st October 2022, shall not be less than the fee specified in clause 1 for the period specified in clause 2 of Schedule-II:
Provided that the applicant or the committee may decide to fix higher amount of fee for the reasons to be recorded, taking into consideration market factors such as size and scale of business operations of corporate debtor, business sector in which corporate debtor operates, level of operating economic activity of corporate debtor and complexity related to process.
(3) After the expiry of period mentioned in clause 2 of Schedule-II, the fee of the interim resolution professional or resolution professional shall be as decided by the applicant or committee, as the case may be.
(4) For the resolution plan approved by the committee on or after 1st October 2022, the committee may decide, in its discretion, to pay performance-linked incentive fee, not exceeding five crore rupees, in accordance with clause 3 and clause 4 of Schedule-II or may extend any other performance-linked incentive structure as it deems necessary.
(5) The fee under this regulation may be paid from the funds, available with the corporate debtor, contributed by the applicant or members of the committee and/or raised by way of interim finance and shall be included in the insolvency resolution process cost.”
4. In the principal regulations, after Schedule-I, the following shall be inserted, namely: –
“Schedule-II
(Under Regulation 34B of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016)
Minimum Fixed Fee.
1. Minimum fixed fee as per the table -1 below shall be paid to the interim resolution professional or the resolution professional, as the case may be, for the period mentioned in clause 2:
Table-1: Minimum Fixed Fee Structure
| Quantum of Claims Admitted | Minimum Fee Per Month (Rs. lakh) |
| (i) Less than or equal to Rs. 50 crore | 1.00 |
| (ii) More than Rs.50 crore but less than or equal to Rs.500 crore | 2.00 |
| (iii) More than Rs.500 crore but less than or equal to Rs.2,500 crore | 3.00 |
| (iii) More than Rs.2,500 crore but less than or equal to Rs.10,000 crore | 4.00 |
| (iv) More than Rs.10,000 crore | 5.00 |
Period for minimum fixed fee.
2. The minimum fixed fee shall be applicable for the period, from appointment as interim resolution professional or resolution professional, till the time of –
(a) submission of application for approval of resolution plan under section 30;
(b) submission of application to liquidate the corporate debtor under section 33;
(c) submission of application for withdrawal under section 12A; or
(d) order for closure of corporate insolvency resolution process;
whichever is earlier.
Performance-linked incentive fee for timely resolution.
3. In cases where resolution plan is submitted to the Adjudicating Authority within the time period given in table-2 from the insolvency commencement date, performance-linked incentive fee as per table-2 may be paid to the resolution professional, after approval of such resolution plan by the Adjudicating Authority on commencement of payment to creditors by the resolution applicant.
Table-2: Performance-linked incentive fee for timely resolution
| Time period from insolvency commencement date | Fee as % of Realisable Value |
| (i) Less than or equal to 165 days | 1.00 |
| (ii) More than 165 days but less than or equal to 270 days | 0.75 |
| (iii) More than 270 days but less than or equal to 330 days | 0.50 |
| (iv) More than 330 days | 0.00 |
Performance-linked incentive fee for value maximisation.
4. The performance-linked incentive fee for value maximisation may be paid to the resolution professional at the rate of one per cent of the amount by which the realisable value is higher than the liquidation value, after approval of the resolution plan by Adjudicating Authority on commencement of payment to creditors by the resolution applicant.
Explanation: For the purposes of clause 3 and clause 4, “realisable value” means the amount payable to creditors in the resolution plan approved under section 31.
Illustration –
A corporate debtor having liquidation value of twenty crore rupees was resolved and the realisable value to creditors was one hundred crore rupees. The resolution plan was submitted to the Adjudicating Authority on 170th day from the insolvency commencement date. The committee has decided to pay the performance-linked incentive fees under clause 3 and 4.
In this case, fee payable to the resolution professional shall be as under:
(i) Performance-linked incentive fee for timely resolution: 0.75% of Rs. 100 crore = Rs.75 lakh, and
(ii) Performance-linked incentive fee for value maximisation: 1.00% of Rs. 80 crore (Rs.100 crore – Rs.20 crore) = Rs.80 lakh.”
RAVI MITAL, Chairperson
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./272/2022-23]
Note : The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016 were published vide notification No. IBBI/2016-17/GN/REG004, dated 30th November, 2016 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4, No. 432 on 30th November, 2016 and were last amended by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2022 published vide notification No. IBBI/2022-23/GN/REG084, dated the 14th June 2022 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4, No. 302 on 14th June, 2022.
