Month: June 2015

JAPAN’S CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CODE

“Corporate Governance” means a structure for transparent, fair, timely and decisive decision-making by companies, with due attention to the needs and perspectives of shareholders and also customers, employees, stakeholders and local communities. OBJECTIVES OF THE CODE: To establish fundamental principles for effective corporate governance. To seek “growth-oriented governance” by promoting timely and decisive decision-making based …

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Insider Trading

Introduction: Insider Trading, as may be familiar to lot of us, is principally the act of dealing in securities with the advantage of having asymmetrical access to unpublished information which when published would impact the price of securities in the market. India seems to be having a long standing tryst with the notion of Insider …

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Secretarial Standard on Meetings of the Board of Directors

Introduction: The Secretarial Standard on Meetings of the Board of Directors (SS-1), as approved by the Central Government, has been issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) under the provisions of Section 118(10) of the Companies Act, 2013 (the Act), vide ICSI Notification No. 1 (SS) of 2015 dated April 23rd, 2015 …

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Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

1) Disclosures under SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) vide Circular No. CIR/ISD/01/2015 dated May 11, 2015 has notified the Disclosures under SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015. The formats for the disclosure under Regulation 6 of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015, have been …

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RESERVE BANK OF INDIA (RBI)

1. Foreign Exchange Management (Permissible Capital Account Transactions) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2015 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has amended the Foreign Exchange Management (Permissible Capital Account Transactions) Regulations, 2000, vide Notification No. FEMA. 341/2015-RB dated May 26, 2015. RBI has allowed resident individual to draw from an authorized person foreign exchange not exceeding USD …

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Partners Column

May, 2015 has just passed….a big relief for many from the hot summer. This time it was a talk of the nation and a few international media as well that Telangana and AP had the highest death toll due to high temperature. Union Government Narendra Modi’s Government successfully completed its maiden year. Though not achieved …

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UMESH K. MODI (Appellant) Vs. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ENFORCEMENT [DEL] (Respondent)

Criminal Appeal No. 568 of 2008 S. Muralidhar, J.[Decided on 31/07/2014] Foreign Exchange Regulation Act,1973- section 68- offences by company- director’s vicarious liability-nonexecutive director- non submission of proofs of imports – SCN issued to the company and its directors- no specific averments in the SCN- reply of the director not considered by Assessing officer (AO)– …

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