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In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 642 read with sub-section (1) of 610B of the Companies Act, 1956, the Central Government hereby makes the Companies (Central Government’s) General Rules and Forms (Second Amendment), 2010 notifying the new form no. 68.
Winding-up – a brief: The Companies Act, 1956 contain elaborate provisions as to when a Company is to be wound-up, the procedure for initiating winding-up proceedings, the role of the managerial personal if the company is wound-up by the Company Court and the liquidation process to be conducted by the Official Liquidator appointed by the Company Court.
I need not reiterate the fact that Company Law is complicated everywhere in view of its exposure, the interest of the stake holders, plethora of regulations, the stakes and the responsibility of the state or the statutory authorities. As everybody knows, in India, the jurisdiction to decide company disputes substantially rests with the Company Court and the Company Law Board.
The terms merger and amalgamation have not been defined in the Companies Act, 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) though this voluminous piece of legislation contains 69 definitions in Section 2. The concept paper recently issued by the Ministry of Company Affairs, the fate of which is still unknown, contained 100 such definitions but still stopped short of defining merger or amalgamation. The terms merger and amalgamation are synonyms and the term ‘amalgamation’, as per Concise Oxford Dictionary, Tenth Edition, means, ‘to combine or unite to form one organization or structure’.
The government has found financial irregularities in 160 companies — a whopping 30 of them owned by it — thanks to the early warning system (EWS) put in place last year. After the nearly Rs 10,000-crore Satyam fraud last year, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) in September had developed an EWS to detect corporate frauds. The software-based fraud detecting system scans companies based on 10 financial parameters set by the ministry.
When there exist serious disputes between groups, one group tends to approach Company Law Board or the Company Court. Usually, when there are serious disputes, one group approaches the Company Law Board under section 397/398 of the Companies Act, 1956 alleging oppression and mismanagement.
India is looking to recast provisions relating to mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that require ratification by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Currently, under the Competition Act, any M&A that results in combined revenue above certain thresholds must first be cleared by CCI, a unit of the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA). The ministry also must first notify regulations regarding M&As before referring them to CCI.
I personally feel that an application under section 397/398 of the Companies Act, 1956 is a serious thing exposing serious misunderstandings between majority and minority group in the Company. We see this groupism in private limited companies and closely held public companies too at times.
Shri Salman Khirshid, Minister for Corporate Affairs, has reiterated the idea of making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) quantifiable and urged corporates to debate the possibility of establishing a CSR exchange to deal in CSR credits. Launching the FICCI-Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence here today at Federation House, Shri Khurshid said that through the CSR exchange mechanism, companies would be able to trade in CSR credits, akin to trading in carbon credits. He said that we would be doing justice to the next generation by trading in CSR credits if we are able to find a way of quantifying CSR.
Company Law is very interesting and complicated. A shareholder having a substantial stake in the Company should be very careful as to how the Company functions and as to whether there is any chance for oppression and mismanagement. A substantial shareholder in a Company should always have an eye on the functioning of the Company and should keep track of all the transactions or the business.
