Company Law : The MCA introduced a risk-based eligibility framework allowing more companies to access fast-track mergers. By replacing size crit...
Company Law : The case examined whether extending redemption timelines amounts to reissuance. The Tribunal held that extensions within statutory...
Corporate Law : This analysis explains how NCLT continues to respect CoC commercial wisdom but now intervenes when procedures, legality, or fairne...
Corporate Law : RTI inquiry into NCLT/NCLAT reveals member vacancies, lack of consolidated case data, and opaque appointments, highlighting need f...
Corporate Law : The NCLT has ruled that banks can classify accounts as fraudulent during IBC proceedings, clarifying that a moratorium does not sh...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court upheld joint insolvency proceedings against two interconnected real estate companies due to common management an...
Company Law : ICSI raised concerns over delays in NCLT hearings affecting corporate restructuring and insolvency matters. It emphasized the need...
Company Law : ICSI has urged the government to set up an NCLT Bench in Pune citing 30,600 pending cases and prolonged insolvency timelines. The ...
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Corporate Law : From 2022-23 to 2024-25, appeals filed at NCLAT rose steadily, with IBC cases forming the majority, reflecting active engagement i...
Company Law : While approving the resolution plan, NCLT clarified that exemptions relating to taxes, duties, and statutory compliances must be o...
Corporate Law : Although the Scheme was sanctioned, the Tribunal clarified that the Income Tax Department remained free to investigate any tax imp...
Company Law : The Tribunal admitted insolvency proceedings after finding documentary evidence of operational debt, part payment, ledger confirma...
Company Law : Section 7 insolvency application filed by State Bank of India (SBI) was admitted against Martina Bio Genics Private Limited and he...
Corporate Law : The Tribunal held that for a guarantee payable on demand, limitation begins from the date the guarantee is invoked and not from th...
Corporate Law : The order permits single judicial members to handle procedural and uncontested matters. It ensures faster case disposal while pres...
Corporate Law : Details of Judicial and Technical Members assigned to NCLT benches across India as per the latest order issued by the Ministry of ...
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Corporate Law : IBBI Disciplinary Committee suspends Sanjay Singh, an Insolvency Professional, for irregularities in the e-auction process. Detail...
Company Law : Explore the order dated 03.02.2024 from NCLT Chandigarh transferring all pending cases from Bench 2 to Bench 1. Detailed analysis ...
Procedure For Reduction Of Share Capital Under Section 66 Read With NCLT (Procedure For Reduction Of Share Capital) Rules, 2016 i. Convene a Board Meeting to approve the reduction of share capital and fixing the date of general meeting of the company. ii. Hold the general meeting and have the Special Resolution passed. iii. File […]
In a memorable and consequential judgement, in the matter of Nikhil Mehta & Sons (HUF)&Or’s vs M/s AMR Infrastructure Ltd (CA No. 811(PB/2018 in IB-02(pb)/2017, it has been upheld that the voting threshold in the IBC are merely directory in nature and that preference can be taken to decision taken by the largest percentage in the Committee of Creditors in case of a deadlock. For a homebuyer or commercial property buyer, both of them involved in this case, the judge made an eventful judgement which approved the appointment of Interim Resolution Professional as Resolution Professional and that agenda items 4, 6 to 9 were also deemed to have been approved by majority of Committee of Creditors
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are the transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities. As an aspect of strategic management, M&A can allow enterprises to grow or downsize, and change the nature of their business or competitive position.
In this case it is for the first time that the principles of Section 29A and circumstances of its applicability has been adjudged by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (hereinafter “NCLAT”). This judgment is not about maximization of value of entity at the time of bidding but focuses and restricts itself on the qualification […]
Scheme of Amalgamation and Arrangement between G Pvt. Ltd. (‘Transferor Company’) and A Limited (`Transferee Company’) and their respective shareholders appeared to be unfair, unreasonable and was not in the public interest as the scheme was devised mainly to benefit the four share holders of G who were also the promoters of A (common promoters) and by this scheme, huge tax liability was being avoided, therefore, the Bench denied to sanction the scheme.
This article is a critical analysis of the recent judgment of NCLAT i.e., in the matter of Shah Brothers Ispat Pvt. Ltd. Vs. P. Mohanraj & Ors.-Company Appeal (AT) (Insolvency) No. 61 of 2018 wherein it has been held that moratorium will not be applicable to action under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
NCLT, Mumbai Bench dismissed the petition filed by Cyrus Mistry who incidentally owns about 18.3% (including preference capital) of Tata Sons Limited. NCLT ruled that Tata Sons Limited has all the rights to remove its Executive Chairman and NCLT found no merit in Mistry’s allegations of operational mismanagement and oppression of minority shareholders. The Mistry-Tatas […]
Central Government hereby establishes the National Company Law Tribunal, Cuttack Bench at Cuttack and for the said purpose further amends the notification of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs number S.O. 1935 (E), dated the 1st day of June, 2016, namely:—
India’s banking industry is in the throes of a crisis. Bad debts are piling up at banks. Freeing up this money is crucial for the banking sector to go about its business. There were many laws dealing with insolvency for Companies as well as for individuals. But most of them were either dating from the British Raj or failing to recover loans.
Ms. Rashmi Rajpal v. Klienz Herbal (P.) Ltd. (National Company Law Tribunal, Hyderabad Bench) Where name of a company was struck off because of delay in filing statutory returns, reasons of which was explained, and, company had expressed its willingness to file all returns along with payment of prescribed fee to which ROC had no objection, name […]
