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 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...
Company Law : The issue involved non-filing of Form DIR-12 to report resignation of a director. The authority held that failure to comply with S...
Section 121 of the Companies Act,2013 and Rule 31 of Companies (Management and Administration) Rules,2014 deals with Report on Annual General Meeting. This is the new provision introduced by the Companies Act ,2013, which mandates the report on AGM for all listed public companies. Earlier, as per the listing agreement, the report on AGM is mandatory only for Top 100 listed companies.
Section 110 of the Companies Act,2013 and Rule 22 of the Companies (Management and Administration ) Rules,2014 deals with Postal Ballot. Postal Ballot – Business: A company shall transact the following business only by means of Postal Ballot;
CA Gaurav Mittal Section 188 of Companies Act 2013 is about Related Party Transactions and applicable to both Private and Public limited company and is applicable from 1St April 2014. What we will be discussing in below article:- Definition/Meaning of Related Party Transactions which are deemed as related party transactions Nature of […]
Appointment of Company Secretary is required the following type of Companies :- a. Listed Companies b. Public Limited Companies having paid up capital more than 10 Crores c. Companies having paid up share capital of five crore rupees or more
I once again reiterate that the Companies Act, 2013 would create a need based requirement of company secretaries in the light of its provisions such as registered valuers, interim administrators, enhanced penalties, enhanced disclosure requirements and so on, besides the mandates such as secretarial audit, certification of e-forms and other documents. I appeal to all our members to make use of the facilities and participate in capacity building programmes across the nation to learn the implementation of the Act effectively and to create further opportunities for ourselves.
Charges denotes the security on the assets given to ensure the repayment of the loan etc. and sometimes is a pre-requisite conditions imposed by the granter to avail the said facility. It may on the present or future assets of the company.
In this connection, it is hereby clarified that registers maintained by companies pursuant to sub-section (5) of Section 372A of Companies Act, 1956 may continue as per requirements under these provisions and the new format prescribed vide Form MBP2 shall be used for particulars entered in such registers on and from 1.4.2014.
Appointment of Company Secretaries in companies not covered under rule 8.—A company other than a company covered under rule 8 which has a paid up share capital of five crore rupees or more shall have a whole-time company secretary.
Q1: What are the prohibitions on sec 185? Ans: No company can directly or indirectly advance loan to its directors or to other persons in whom directors are interested. No company can give any guarantee or provide any security in connection with any loan taken by him or such other person. Company can’t give loan represented by a book debt to above mentioned person.
CII has called for a comprehensive review of the Companies Act 2013 and Companies Rules, 2014 issued thereunder. “Due to the hurried pace in which the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies Rules, 2014 were implemented, the industry barely got an opportunity to absorb and understand the provisions or their impact in their entirety. Many new […]
