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This is a step towards greater transparency and protecting investor's rights in listed entities by requiring full disclosure on items that are put to vote.

SEBI has introduced a new mechanism for handling lock-in requirements for pledged shares in public issues, requiring companies to amend their Articles of Association to ensure pledged equity shares remain locked-in even after pledge invocation or release. The circular establishes specific procedural requirements for issuers, including mandatory notifications to lenders and pledgees at key stages of the public offering process.

The Listing Circular looks to reduce timelines for listing of securities to benefit all stakeholders.

The BRR Circular ensures that listed entities are made responsible not only to their investors and customers but to their employees and the environment, by incorporating policies for the well-being of the same.

100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) under the automatic route is permitted in townships, housing, built-up infrastructure and construction-development projects to create employment opportunities, generate economic activity and supplement available housing stock and built-up infrastructure, circumscribed by certain limitations in respect of the minimum area required to be developed in the case of serviced housing plots and construction development projects and capitalization for FDI by wholly ow

The existing channel of Syndicate ASBA will no longer be available for RIIs

The Ministry of Finance ("MOF") has by a recent notification further liberalized the Scheme for Issue of Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds and Ordinary Shares (Through Depositary Receipt Mechanism), 1993 ("Scheme") by permitting unlisted Indian companies, like those engaged in real estate business, to sponsor an issue of American Depository Receipts (ADRs)/ Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) with an overseas depository against shares held by its shareholders

On November 30, 2015, SEBI issued a circular granting certain relaxations from strict enforcement of listing related obligations under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957 and under the Listing Regulations.

Indian Energy Exchange Limited (IEX) made its debut on the stock market through an offer for sale by its existing shareholders.

Apart from that, the circular had also obliged the listed companies to submit quarterly compliance report on corporate governance in a prescribed format within 15 days from close of every quarter.

Pursuant to the coming into force of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 on December 1, 2015, SEBI issued a circular on November 30, 2015.

Earlier this year, SEBI amended the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, to structure the unregulated compensation and profit sharing arrangements/agreements ...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) via their circulars dated April 28, 2022 (Public InvIT Circular) and June 24, 2022 (Private InvIT Circular)...

SEBI recently issued a consultation paper seeking public comments on a proposed regulatory regime for issuance of equity shares with differential voting rights by listed and to-be-listed companies in India.

The International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City City is India's first international financial centre.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in its meeting today has taken decisions that will make M&A and private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions easier.

During the economic reforms of 1990s, drastic changes were made to the economy by adoption of the principles of liberalization, privatization and globalization.

The objective behind such tightening of the compliances was due to the leaking of selective information by the entities that to through media without informing the investors first.

Many ELCs were unable to list their equity shares on the Nation-wide Stock Exchanges (NWSEs) as their paid up capital was less than minimum capital required for listing on the NWSEs.