corporate law

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Businesses were competitive locally expanded to the national arena. Competitiveness in the national arena is now forcing business to go global. The days of regional differentiation are over. Old strategies that professed “Small is Beautiful” or offered lessons on how companies could “survive in a niche” are no longer viable. Yes it is true that there are still micro-..

Meaning of Director as per the Companies Act, 1956 A company is a legal entity and does not have any physical existence. It can act only through natural persons to run its affairs. The person, acting on its behalf, is called Dire..

Introduction: Meaning & Kinds: “Winding-up” in literal sense, means to bring to a conclusion or an end by putting in order.[1] It is defined as the process by which the life of a company is ended and its prop..

India has developed very comprehensive and open policy towards Foreign Direct Investment (‘FDI’). Since the inception of economic reforms in early 1990s, substantive reforms have been initiated in the fie..

Feasibility of Online banking in India The red tapism in publi..

The alternative legal route to meet the above objectives i.e. revival/rehabilitation of the sick units or the liquidation of the company are incidental to industrialisation. Time has come that an institutional netwo..

Transferability of shares is an important feature of incorporation of a Company. Section 82 of the Companies Act deals with the nature of shares and reads as follows: The shares or debentures or other interest ..

What is a Collective Investment Management Company (CIMC)? A Collective Investment Management Company is a company incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 and registered with SEBI under the SEBI (Collective Investment Schemes) Regulations, 1999, whose object is to organise, operate and manage a Collective Investment Scheme. Can an existing Collective Investment Scheme r..

From where can I get details of companies proposing to buyback their shares? Listed companies are required to intimate the stock exchange of general meetings and resolutions passed thereof. Hence, information on companies proposing to buyback shares may be obtained from the stock exchanges. Also, when buyback offer document or public announcement is filed with SEBI, SEBI issues a press release ..

What is a Futures Contract? Futures contract means a legally binding agreement to buy or sell the underlying security on a future date. Future contracts are the organised/standardised contracts in terms of quantity, quality (in case of commodities), delivery time and place for settlement on any date in future. The contract expires on a pre-specified date which is called the expiry date of the..

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and inter-bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period March 10, 2008 to March 14, 2008. All Figures are in USD Millions table ce..

 The Indian Economy and the Reserve Bank of India: Random Thoughts(Shri Yeshwantrao Chavan Memorial Lecture 2007-08 delivered by Dr. Y V Reddy, Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Maharashtra Branch, Mumbai, on March 31, 2008) Shri Johny J..

Foreign Investments  in India(As on April 1, 2007) The FAQs cover broadly the following areas :I. Foreign Direct InvestmentII. Foreign Technical CollaborationIII. Foreign Portfolio InvestmentIV. Inv..

Introduction:The legal framework for administration of foreign exchange transactions in India is provided by the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999. Under the Act, freedom has been granted for buying and selling of foreign exchange for undertaking curr..