In the backdrop of several highlighted instances of suspected leakage of unpublished price sensitive information (UPSI) and suspected trades on the basis of such information by persons privy to such information SEBI has issued the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Amendment Regulations, 2018 on 31st December, 2018 and the amendments w...

CS Chintan Doshi Synopsis of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 Dated 31-12-18, Effective From 01-04-2019 1. The definition of “promoter” and “promoter group category” to be read as per SEBI (ICDR) REGULATIONS, 2018 in place of 2009. Definitions are as follows: “promoter” shall include a person...

Recently, SEBI mandated issue of securities in dematerialised form and directed Board of directors to abstain from approving any physical transfer w.e.f. October 2, 2018 in case of unlisted public companies and w.e.f. April 1, 2019 in case of entities having its specified securities listed on stock exchange. Depositories viz. NSDL and CDS...

In a major move taken by the capital market regulator, SEBI, it has given a big relief to the investors at large who are still holding the physical shares of the listed companies but have not converted them into Demat format till date and the last date to convert such shares was 5th December, 2018 […]...

SEBI circular dated February 8, 2019 brought in concept of annual secretarial compliance report and Annual secretarial audit report. This write-up deliberates upon the above mentioned reports and the motive behind bringing in the same. ...

The SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 have been amended to include the following Regulation: 24A: Secretarial Audit Every  listed  entity  and  its  material  unlisted  subsidiaries  incorporated  in  India  shall  undertake  secretarial  audit  and  shall  annex  with  its  ann...

Every Listed Company and every material unlisted subsidiary (incorporated in India) of listed company has to submit Secretarial Audit Report in Form MR-3 in its Annual Report. Every Listed Company has to submit an Annual Compliance Report to the Stock Exchanges within 60 days of the end of the Financial Year....

SEBI vide its circular CIR/CFD/CMD1/27/2019 dated February 08, 2019 has specified Format for annual secretarial audit report and annual secretarial compliance report for equity listed entities and their material subsidiaries....

Definition of Frequently Traded Shares and Calculation of Weighted Average Number of Total Shares As per the Securities And Exchange Board Of India (Substantial Acquisition Of Shares And Takeovers) Regulations, 2011 Frequently Traded Shares means shares of a target company, in which the traded turnover on any stock exchange during the 1...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has in exercise of powers conferred under Securities and Exchange Board of India, Act, 1992 has made the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading) (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 to amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading...