Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Tuesday approved measures to make mergers and acquisitions of listed companies easier and allow the establishment of gold and social stock exchanges in the country. It also cleared proposals to tighten related party transactions, launch silver exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and relax rules on superior voting rights (SVRs) for promoters of new-age tech companies, to encourage Indian startups to list locally.
Interestingly, SEBI also came up with an Investor Charter for the first time.
Against this backdrop, Regstreet Law Advisorsโs Sumit Agrawal, Managing Partner, has been quoted by The Economic Times in their article titled โSEBI board to discuss M&A norms, gold exchangesโ
Sumit is of the opinion that the concept (of RPTs) itself has been tweaked to include non-promoter entities and shareholders. Audit committees will have to take a bigger role on scrutinising these. Further, SEBI has had regulatory experience of dealing with at least 20 companies where there were complaints, and forensic audits had shown misuse of related party transactions through the structure of subsidiaries and friendly shareholders.
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