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Company Law : The article explains the legal framework governing debenture issuance under the Companies Act, 2013. It outlines the types of debe...
Company Law : Section 42 of the Companies Act, 2013 permits companies to raise funds from a select group of investors through private placement....
Company Law : The 2025 amendments significantly expand the scope of fast-track mergers by allowing more categories of companies, including eligi...
Company Law : The article explains the legal framework governing share capital and share issuance under the Companies Act, 2013. It highlights h...
Company Law : The article explains how Section 118 mandates the preparation and preservation of meeting minutes to ensure transparency and accou...
Company Law : The MCA has widened CSR eligibility by recognizing subscriptions to Zero Coupon Zero Principal Instruments as a valid CSR activity...
Company Law : Provisional list of audit firms of listed companies yet to file NFRA-2 for 2023-24. Filing deadline was 30.11.2025; fines apply fo...
Company Law : ICSI recommended restoring public access to basic company master data without mandatory login requirements. The representation sta...
Company Law : The issue concerns eligibility and participation rules for the convocation. ICSI has clarified that members who do not attend will...
Company Law : NFRA introduced guidelines to evaluate audit firms’ compliance and quality control systems. The framework emphasizes governance,...
Company Law : Resolution Professional (RP) was fully justified in seeking possession through the insolvency process itself, the NCLAT affirmed t...
Company Law : The NCLAT held that unregistered profit-sharing agreements do not create leasehold or occupancy rights in immovable property. The ...
Company Law : While approving the resolution plan, NCLT clarified that exemptions relating to taxes, duties, and statutory compliances must be o...
Company Law : A Successful Resolution Applicant (SRA) could not avoid a CoC-approved resolution plan by claiming that the Letter of Intent (LoI)...
Company Law : NCLAT held that the order appointing the Resolution Professional under Section 97 was obtained on the basis of misrepresented a...
Company Law : The MCA has amended the valuation rules to require Registered Valuer Organisations to maintain a minimum paid-up capital of ₹25 ...
Company Law : The Registrar of Companies penalized the company and its authorized signatory after an incorrect document was attached with Form A...
Company Law : MCA amends Schedule VII of the Companies Act to include subscription to zero coupon zero principal instruments on Social Stock Exc...
Company Law : MCA has amended the CSR Rules to recognize zero coupon zero principal instruments issued by Social Stock Exchange-listed NPOs. The...
Company Law : ROC Mumbai held that repeated return of official notices proved non-maintenance of a registered office under Section 12(1) of the ...
The Government has said that as and when any instance of wrong doing by any company comes to the notice, action is taken as per provisions of the Companies Act, 1956. In addition, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has devised Early Warning System (EWS) based on the information available in MCA-21 System.
The Minister of Corporate Affairs, Shri Salman Khurshid has said that there is no provision under the Companies Act, 1956 for merger of Indian companies with foreign companies. However, a foreign company may merge with an Indian company. Giving this information in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on merger of companies, Shri Khurshid informed the House that as part of Corporate Restructuring, one of the options available to corporate is merger. The corporate resort to merger according to their restructuring plans taking into consideration economics of scale, corporate sustainability and its long term objectives.
It is a fact that it is very rare to see a petition by a group of minority or majority under section 397/398 of the Companies Act, 1956 in listed Public Companies. As everybody knows a Company needs to get qualified as per SEBI (DIP) regulations and should satisfy other requirements before getting its shares listed over a stock exchange.
The Corporate Affairs Ministry today said it was collecting information on all franchisees of IPL teams and described this as a part of normal practice for any company and was not a probe. “My ministry is merely collecting information that we should have in the normal course of those companies that are franchisee companies,” Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters here.
The government today said it has asked the Registrar of Companies (RoC) to look into accounts of some companies on the basis of alerts put out by an early warning system, which has been installed to check corporate frauds.
The Government has said that under the provisions of section 205C of the Companies Act, the following amounts are required to be credited to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the companies: (i) Amounts in the unpaid dividend accounts of companies;
The Government proposes to set up two new Regional Directorates of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Giving this information in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, the Minister for Corporate Affairs, Shri Salman Khurshid, informed the House that one Regional Directorate would be set up in the North Western Region in Gujarat (Ahmedabad) and the other in the North Eastern Region in Assam (Guwahati).
The government on Wednesday said that the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) guidelines which require listed companies to meet corporate governance norms for best practices in management may now be extended to unlisted companies as well.
Law governing the rights of the minority, the propriety of the majority and the protection given to the shareholders under section 397/398 of the Act, is always very interesting and also complicated. There are many interesting and complicated issues under section 397/398 of the Companies Act, 1956.
In the said notification, against serial No. (2), for the entry “Shri Uttam Prakash Agarwal, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India”, the entry “Shri Amarj it Chopra, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India” shall be substituted.
