A Company at the time of
offering its securities to the Indian Public is required to
comply with plethora of rules and regulation prescribed by
the SEBI as well as Stock Exchanges. Therefore once a Company
is listed on a Stock Exchange, numerous monthly, quarterly,
six monthly annual documents have to be filed. For non-filing
of returns, SEBI has prescribed heavy penalties therefore
a Company has to be very prompt and particular in filing these
returns. In this area we provide the following services:
1. Liaison with Securities & Exchange Board
of India (SEBI):
For various matters a Company is required to liaison with
SEBI mainly for investor related matters. We also represent
the Company before the adjudicating office of SEBI for many
matters and also we appear before SEBI Appellate Tribunal
(SAT) against orders.
2. Stock Exchanges & on going compliances
of listing agreement
Under the listing agreement with the stock exchange, a listed
company has to comply with many conditions. It is also important
to keep track of the time limits for complying the provisions.
We also advice company on various clauses of listing agreement
and also chalk out Annual Compliance Program (ACP).
We also advice listed companies on various provisions of Substantial Acquisition of shares and takeover guidelines and also Insider Trading Regulations under the SEBI Act.
3. Liaison with the Share Transfer Agents
Under the SEBI Act, a Company has to appoint a Share Transfer
Agent for handling shareholders related activities. Indian
Stock Exchanges now allows issue of shares by a Company only
in electronic format. Still there is major percentage of shares
in all companies, which are yet to be converted into electronic
format. The Registrars & Share Transfer Agent (R &
T) is an authorised and registered agency with the SEBI, which
is empowered to handle this function for a Company. These
R & T agencies work in the interest of the investors and
answerable to SEBI if any thing goes wrong with respect thereto.
4. Acting in advisory capacity
Acting in advisory capacity with respect
to the functioning of various committees to be constituted
by the Board such as Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee,
Share Transfer / Investor Grievances Committee etc.
Corporate in India have recently started recognizing the
importance of Corporate Governance. The Government authorities
like SEBI Stock exchanges have also made it compulsory for
companies to follow rules and regulations pertaining to the
Corporate Governance. There are many requirements relating
to disclosures on various aspects of the Company, formation
of the committees etc. Following committees are required to
be formed by a listed Company:
- Audit Committee
- Transfer Committee
- Remuneration Committee
- Investors Grievance Committee
5. Advising a Listed Company on
- De-listing of its shares from one or more Stock Exchanges
under rules prescribed by SEBI.
- SEBI Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover Regulations
1997 (SAST).
- SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations 1992.
- Preferential Allotment of shares Regulations.
- SEBI (Issue of Sweat Equity) Regulations,2002.
- SEBI Disclosure & Investor Protection Guidelines 2000.
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