“Foreign company” means any company or body corporate incorporated outside India which— a)has a place of business in India whether by itself or through an agent, physically or through electronic mode; and b)Conducts any business activity in India in any other manner.
Reserve Bank has granted general permission to foreign companies to establish Project Offices in India, provided they have secured a contract from an Indian company to execute a project in India, and i. the project is funded directly by inward remittance from abroad; or
Direct investment outside India means investments, either under the Automatic Route or the Approval Route, by way of contribution to the capital or subscription to the Memorandum of a foreign entity or by way of purchase of existing shares of a foreign entity either by market purchase or private placement or through stock exchange, signifying a long-term interest in the foreign entity (JV or WOS).
Incorporation procedure in UAE is a simple step by step process and does not require endless visits to a lawyer at every juncture of company formation. The procedures for incorporation in UAE are recognized to be a legal one and it includes the registration of company name and licensing of business activity.
Procedural requirement for setting up Branch office or Representative office outside India is not such a big deal as it seems to be. However it requires a lot of enthusiasm who want to set up their offices abroad and have such ability to succeed in the most adverse circumstances.
WHETHER LICENSE MANDATORY FOR AMCs: Yes. No person shall carry on or advertise that he carries on money changing business unless he is in possession of a valid money changer’s licence issued by the Reserve Bank. Any person found undertaking money changing business without a valid licence is liable to be penalised.
1. Holder of duplicate DIN shall make an application for surrender with Regional Director in form DIR5. 2. The application shall be accompanied with a declaration on affidavit duly notarized that he has never been appointed as director in any company and the said DIN has never been used for filing of any document with any authority.
(i) A private placement offer cannot be made to more than 200 people in aggregate in a financial year excluding “qualified institutional buyers” and employees of the company being offered securities under a scheme of employee’s stock option as per provisions of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 62.
External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) refer to commercial loans in the form of bank loans, buyers’ credit, suppliers’ credit, securitized instruments (e.g. floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds, non-convertible, optionally convertible or partially convertible preference shares) availed of from non-resident lenders with a minimum average maturity of 3 years.
1. Annual general meeting (Section 96) : Time of Meeting : Every AGM shall be called during business hours, i.e., between 9 a.m to 6 p.m on any day that is not a National holiday. Venue of Meeting: It shall be held either at the Registered office of the Company or at some other place within the city, town or village in which the registered office of the Company is situated.
