Category: Anirudha Sapre
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Amendments To InvIT Voting Thresholds
Amendments To InvIT Voting Thresholds October 24, 2024 Authors: Anirudha Sapre & Payaswini Upadhyay What? SEBI amends the InvIT regulations, clarifies that all votes at a unitholder meeting will be calculated on a ‘present and voting’ basis Amendment also simplifies the language of the provisions that spell out the voting thresholds for ordinary unitholder resolutions…
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Should investors be subjected to “gift-tax” when subscribing to listed shares?
Listed companies generally issue the shares at SEBI mandated floor price. However, allotment of shares due to procedural requirements can happen only after a month or more resulting in stock price run up and notional gains This run up in market price may inadvertently be caught under ambit of “gift tax”, which seeks to tax…
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Employee Incentivisation in InvITs – What is SEBI regulating?
SEBI introduces framework for unit-based employee benefit plans for employees of the investment manager of the InvIT. All such plans now to be managed through an employee benefit trust (EBT) Trust can acquire units from the secondary market or get them from the manager (swapped for management fees) – in each case subject to 60%…
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IPO-Bound Companies: SEBI Sees Private Equity’s POV
IPO-Bound Companies: SEBI Sees Private Equity’s POV June 27, 2024 Authors: Anirudha Sapre & Payaswini Upadhyay What? SEBI, in an advisory to merchant banks, has allowed for investor protection rights of a shareholder (such as board seat, veto, pre-emptive rights etc) to continue till the company is listed SEBI’s earlier advisory [dated May 29] required…