The Companies Act is a legislation that governs the formation, functioning, and management of companies. Explore the key provisions, compliance requirements, and legal framework under the Companies Act.
Company Law : A practical overview of the legal procedure, timelines, and filings required for buy-back of shares, highlighting compliance essen...
Company Law : A detailed compliance roadmap covering board meetings, audits, ROC filings, and director duties. It explains mandatory corporate g...
CA, CS, CMA : This update compiles key statutory deadlines across multiple laws for May 2026. It highlights filing requirements under income tax...
Company Law : The scheme allows defaulting companies to regularize filings by paying only 10% of late fees. Key takeaway: CCFS-2026 offers a lim...
Finance : This explains how the regulatory framework strictly governs drug quality, manufacturing, and liability. Courts have clarified that...
Company Law : NFRA introduced guidelines to evaluate audit firms’ compliance and quality control systems. The framework emphasizes governance,...
Company Law : ICSI highlights delays in marking defective forms by RoCs under CCFS 2026. It urges MCA to mandate time-bound processing or allow ...
Company Law : The issue is ambiguity in filing authority during liquidation. ICSI has requested clarity to enable liquidators to maintain statut...
Company Law : The initiative addresses inefficiencies in the current filing system and proposes consolidation and automation. It highlights a sh...
Company Law : The MCA introduced a streamlined process for updating registered email IDs of companies and LLPs. The update ensures seamless rece...
Company Law : Legal Analysis and Narrative Brief: Dale and Carrington Investment Pvt. Ltd. and Another v. P.K. Prathapan and Others (Supreme Cou...
Company Law : The case examined whether Tribunal approval was required for extending preference share redemption. It was held that such extensio...
Company Law : The Tribunal held that allegations of siphoning ₹30 lakh were not supported by any evidence tracing funds to the respondent. Mer...
Company Law : The Court held that a separate meeting of sub-class shareholders is not required when identical terms are offered to the entire cl...
Company Law : Supreme Court held that section 66 of the Companies Act, 2013 doesn’t require mandatory obtaining or circulating of formal valua...
Company Law : The ROC imposed penalties after a company extended its rights issue offer period following requests from promoter shareholders. Th...
Company Law : The appellate authority found that the company complied with private placement provisions by safeguarding funds in a separate acco...
Company Law : The issue involved alleged violation in handling share application money under company law. The ruling held that maintaining funds...
Company Law : The issue involved alleged misuse of share application funds under company law provisions. The authority ruled that compliance was...
Company Law : The issue involved non-filing of Form DIR-12 for appointment of a director. The authority held that failure to comply with Section...
The Companies Act, 2013 was expected to simplify the provisions but on the contrary it brought lot of restriction on doing business. However it is proposed by Ministry of Corporate Affairs to provide various Exemptions to Private Limited Companies. If it approve there will be lot of relaxation to private companies. To take that future advantage many public companies are converting themselves into Private Companies.
Rule 2(e) lays down cost records as books of account relating to utilisation of materials, labour and other items of cost as applicable to the production of goods or provision of services as provided in section 148 of the Act and these rules.
With CSR to be a compulsory compliance for a prescribed set of companies, India has become the first country in the whole world to make it mandatory for the corporate. CSR should not be taken as an obligation but a social responsibility which should be fulfilled strategically, systematically and thoughtfully.
CS Nisha Sharma S.No. Committee/Mechanism to be adopted Applicability Constitution Section and Rules applicable 1. Audit Committee 1. Public Companies having: Paid up share capital>= 10 cr. Turnover>= 100Cr. Aggregate outstanding loans /borrowings/debentures/deposits> =50cr 2. Listed Companies. 1. Minimum 3 directors (Independent directors with majority) Section 177 read with Rule 6 of Companies (Meeting of […]
NACAS set up under Companies act 1956 and NFRA set up under Companies act 2013 are the bodies for the purpose of advisory and regulation of compliances with the standards notified in relation to accounting and auditing. The NACAS will no longer be in action after applicability of section 132 of the Companies act 2013,
Most of the Companies Filed form ADT-1 as an attachment with form GNL-2 before the e-form ADT-1 was made available by the MCA. Since the Form GNL-2 had no mandatory attachments and also there was no information about the attachments to Form ADT-1, most of the Companies only filed form ADT-1 as an attachment to form GNL-2 and did not file the other attachments.
CS Divesh Goyal AMENDMENT IN MAIN OBJECTS, IF THE COMPANY IS CARRYING ANY BUSINESS COVERED UNDER OTHER OBJECTS IN THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION. 1. PROVISIONS FOR OBJECT CLAUSE UNDER COMPANIES ACT – 1956 As per Section 13 of the Companies Act, 1956 the Object Clause of a company shall be divided into three categories:— 1. […]
The totality of CSR can be best understood by three words: ‘corporate’, ‘social’ and ‘responsibility’ in broad terms, CSR relates to responsibilities corporations have towards society within which they are based and within which they operate, not denying the fact that the purview of CSR goes much beyond this.
The Companies Act 2013 envisages radical changes in the area of Corporate Governance and is set to have far-reaching implications. The new regime is expected to significantly change the manner in which corporates operate in India. While the bar for corporate governance has been raised
Shampita Das Section 187 of the Companies Act, 2013 (the ‘Act’) which corresponds to section 49 of the erstwhile Companies Act, 1956 requires companies to hold all investments in its own name. Below, we discuss in detail the requirement of entry of investments in the register maintained for this purpose. We shall also deal with […]
