OnlyThisMuch Book Release Event Videos with my Guru Sreevathson & Mentor MR Venkatesh & all about the joyous moments of OTM for CS Executive Program

The most memorable OnlyThisMuch book release event started with a blessing speech by our Mentor Mr. MRV who described OTM as an Indian Thaali and went on with Mr. Sreevathson releasing the book, followed by an awe-inspiring speech and what not of the joy….:)))

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File @ SEBI Regional office for Issue size UPTO 100 crores for prescribed States with New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai & Kolkata

SEBI extends the role of its Regional offices to accept applications for public issues under ICDR regulations vide CIR/CFD/DIL/9/2010 dated 13th October 2010

When issue size is 100 crores or less

SEBI, New Delhi office for Companies proposed to be listed in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, Delhi & Uttarakhand

SEBI, Kolkata office for Companies proposed to be listed in Assam, Bihar,
Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, West Bengal, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram & Jharkhand

SEBI, Chennai office for Companies proposed to be listed in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tami Nadu & Puducherry

SEBI, Ahmedabad office for Companies proposed to be listed in Gujarat & Rajasthan.

For other states & when issue size is more than 100 crores

At SEBI Bhawan, Mumbai.

Merchant Bankers are accordingly advised to file the draft offer documents / offer documents with the concerned office of SEBI, based on the estimated issue size accordingly.

Download Notification.

Download CS Admit Card for December 2010 Exams - Take print of Hall Ticket for Foundation Executive & Professional Company Secretary Exams now

Hope you would have got your Admit Card or Hall tickets for CS Foundation Programme, CS Executive Programme or CS Professional Programme exams by now.

The CS Admit Card issued by ICSI gives you the details of Roll Number, Examination centre and the details of the exams that you are allowed to write along with the Date of the Exams and the exemptions granted.

So, its the time to wish all the best!!! Just be confident of your preparations now, irrespective of how much you have studied.  Just make sure, you spend 3 hours of your time for every exam with 100% concentration and every exam is independant of each other.  The performance of one exam has connection to the performance in the other exam.  So, simply give your best for each & every exam.  Its Only This Much!!!

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For those, who have not got the same, not to panic! there is a very easy way to download, which is valid for Exams too from ICSI site itself. Just you have to know your ICSI registration number. (Enter Either Registration number or Roll Number) 17 Digit Registration No (Third character is Zero and not "O") or 9 digit numbers followed by / month (2 digit) / year (4 digit) and you will get your Admit Card Extract. 

Now, click here to get your Admit Card Click here to download ICSI Hall Ticket for December 2010 exams  using http://www.icsi.edu:8888/AdmitCard/LoginScreen.aspx [New Website Link]

The other option would be log in to your www.icsi.in

Company Law Easy Exit Scheme Version 2.0 is back!!! Rush to close your companies now (1st January to 31st January 2011)

Closure of defunct companies by ROC

COMPANY LAW EASY EXIT SCHEME under The Companies Act, 1956:

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, has announced an EASY EXIT SCHEME to facilitate the defunct company to get rid of it. The scheme has made very simple for the exit of the defunct company without much effort.

In the normal circumstances closing of a company may take several years and may need to spent lakhs of rupees.

Please contact us immediately for filing the application, for closure of your defunct company, if any at the earliest and avail this golden opportunity.

The opportunity may come once in blue moon. So do ACT IMMEDIATELY and get rid of your defunct company once for all without any future litigation for non compliances.

The Scheme is valid from 1st January to 31st January 2011.

After the closure of the scheme, it is expected that ROC may take actions on those companies who continue to default the compliances.

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No preferential allotment to promoter for 1 year on warrant failure, Be a retail investor UPTO 2 lakhs, Advertise filing of offer documents, Uniform allotment in offer to public, Asks company to decide whether partly/fully paid shares - SEBI ICDR 4th Amendment 2010

SEBI Issue of Capital & Disclosure Requirements - ICDR (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2010: The amendment includes postal insurance funds as QIB, increases retail investor limit to 2 lakhs [ie, those who will fall in the 35% in net offer category], mandates company to advertise filing of offer documents, clarifies on pending convertible securities before IPO, as usual puts extra responsibility on Merchant banker to certify on advertisements issued in all types of media, unifies allotment in offer to public as 50%-35%-15% (for QIB-Retail-Others), issue to give either part payment or full payment option to investors (& not both) and finally clarifies on eligibility of Preferential Allotment to Promoters or Promoters Group (i.e) if they have sold shares within past 6 months or if they have failed to exercise warrants issued within past 1 year, then such promoters/promoters group becomes ineligible for preferential allotment.

Retail investors/reservation to employees limit extended

Reg 2(ze) “retail individual investor” means an investor who applies or bids for specified securities for a value of not more than  Rs. 2 lakhs (erstwhile limit was Rs. 1 lakh).

Reg 2(zf) “retail individual shareholder” means a shareholder of a listed issuer, who applies or bids for specified securities for a value of not more than Rs. 2 lakhs.

Reg 42(4): The reservation on competitive basis to any employee shall not exceed Rs. 2,00,000/- (erstwhile limit was Rs. 1,00,000)

Reg 2(zd) “Qualified Institutional Buyer” (QIB) has 12 items now:

“(xii) insurance funds set up and managed by the Department of Posts, India.”

In addition to SEBI, Stock Exchange & Merchant banker who publish draft offer documents in their website, the company shall publish the same in dailies

New Reg 9(3): The issuer company either on the date of filing the draft offer document with SEBI or on the next day shall make a public  announcement in one English/Hindi/Regional daily newspaper with wide  circulation about the fact of filing of draft offer document with SEBI and inviting public comments.

Reg 26(5): IPO can be made with FULLY PAID outstanding convertible securities which are required to be converted on or before the date of filing of prospectus.

Same allocation even if minimum public shareholding is 10/25%Reg 43(2): Allocation in net offer to public category shall be:

• UPTO 50% to QIB
• Atleast 35% to Retail Investors
• Atleast 15% to Non-Institutional Investors

(irrespective of whether the offer is made under Rule 19(2)(b) or not [i.e, even if minimum public shareholding is 10%])

Hence, the erswhile limits of 60%, 30%, 10% will  not apply.

Make it fully paid or partly paid & not both

New Reg 54(7):  “The issuer shall give only one payment option out of the following to all the investors -  

(a) part payment on application with balance money to be paid in  calls; or 
(b) full payment on application:

Provided that where the issuer has given the part payment option to  investors, such issuer shall  obtain the necessary regulatory  approvals to facilitate the same.”

Now, Merchant banker shall also certify the Public communications, publicity materials, advertisements and research reports in all medias

New Reg 60(14): “The merchant bankers shall submit a compliance certificate in the format specified in  Part D of Schedule XIII, for the period between the date of filing the draft offer document with SEBI and the date of closure of the issue, in respect of news reports appearing in any of the following media:
(a) newspapers mentioned in sub-regulation (3) of regulation 9;
(b) major business magazines;
(c) print and electronic media controlled by a media group where the media group has a private treaty/shareholders’ agreement with the issuer or promoters of the issuer.”

Conditions for Preferential Allotment made more stringent

“Explanation: Where any person belonging to promoter(s) or the promoter group has sold his  equity shares in the issuer during the 6 months preceding the relevant date, the promoter(s) and promoter group shall be ineligible for  allotment of specified securities on preferential basis”.

New Reg 72(3): Where any person belonging to promoter(s) or the  promoter group has previously subscribed to warrants of an issuer but failed to exercise the warrants, the promoter(s) and promoter group shall be ineligible for issue of specified securities of such issuer on preferential basis for a period of one year from the date of expiry of the tenure/cancellation of  the  warrants.

Download the SEBI ICDR 4th Amendment 2010 issued vide No. LAD-NRO/GN/2010-11/19/26456 dated 12th November 2010

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OTM will provide various opportunities to the participants (selected) and the winners, which inter alia includes:

1.      Opportunity to write and contribute to OTM by co-authoring in OTM books

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SEBI interprets whether offer to 50 or more persons amounts to public & thereby mandates listing under Companies Act, irrespective of intention to list its securities with Stock Exchange - reading together Section 55A with 73

On 24th November 2010, it happened!!!  SEBI, the watch dog of Indian Capital Market did its part of research on Companies Act to understand the powers which are already vested with it and has come out [barking :-)] with brilliant interpretations. 

SEBI takes a re-look on

Section 55A, 56, 60B, 67, 73 & 81(1A) of Companies Act, 1956

DIRECTIONS UNDER SECTIONS 11(1), 11(4)(b), 11A(1)(b) AND 11B issued under SEBI ACT, 1992 READ WITH REGULATION 107 OF SEBI (ISSUE OF CAPITAL AND DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS - ICDR) REGULATIONS, 2009 IN THE MATTER OF ISSUANCE OF OPTIONALLY FULLY CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES (OFCD) BY SAHARA INDIA REAL ESTATE CORPORATION LIMITED (SIREC) AND SAHARA HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION LIMITED (SHICL).  Lets refer SIREC & SHICL as “Company”.

The Company’s point of view

a. OFCD issuance of SIRECL and SHICL do not come under the purview of SEBI as Section 55A of the Companies Act, 1956 delegates the administrative power to SEBI only with respect to the listed public companies and those public companies which are intending to get their securities listed in India. Since the said companies have stated in the RHP filed with the RoC that, they do not intend to get the OFCDs listed in any stock exchanges in India or abroad, the issuance of OFCDs does not come under the purview of SEBI.
Note: OFCD is a security and is convertible into Equity Shares and is not in the nature of “Non-Convertible Debt Security”.

b. Issuance of OFCDs was made on private placement basis and is restricted to a select group (however large, they may be), it ceases to be an offer to the public.
c. When securities are issued to more than 50 persons, by following the procedure laid down under Section 60B of the Companies Act, 1956, by circulation of information memorandum and filing of Red Herring Prospectus (RHP) with the RoC, it would not be necessary to list the securities so offered and the issue shall remain outside the purview of SEBI.

What did SEBI analyse?

a) Whether the impugned OFCD offers have been made to the public and if so, whether listing of the OFCDs, so offered, is mandatory?
b) Whether Section 60B of the Act provides “an alternative route” for raising capital without complying with Section 73 of the Act and other SEBI requirements, as contended by the companies?

What does Companies Act say?

Section 67: The essence of this section is that “who can apply for securities in response to invitation shall be checked to determine whether it is an offer to public” and lays certain criteria for that.

The said Section explicitly states that any reference in the Act or in the articles of a company to offering (or inviting to subscribe) for shares or debentures to the public shall be construed as including a reference to offering them (or inviting them to subscribe) to any section of the public, whether selected as members or debenture holders of the company concerned or as clients of the person issuing the prospectus or in any other manner.

Provisio to Section 67(3) as summarised by SEBI:  Even if an issue is made by way of private placement to 50 or more persons, it would be deemed to be a public issue (“deemed to be a public issue”) irrespective of whether it was offered to public at large or to just a section of the public chosen, in whatever manner.

Further, any further issue of capital, even pursuant to a resolution made under Section 81(1A) of the Act (dealing private placement to select group of persons), is subject to the provisions of Part III of the Act (dealing with Prospectus), if the offer is made to 50 persons or more.

The filing of a prospectus under the Act signfies the intention of the issuer to raise funds from the public. – SEBI infers!!!

Whether listing is mandatory for all public issues?

As per Section 73(1) of the Act, every company intending to offer shares or debentures to the public for subscription by the issue of a prospectus shall, before such issue, make an application to one or more recognized stock exchanges for permission for (listing of) the shares or debentures intending to be so offered to be dealt with in a stock exchange or each such stock exchange.

As per Section 73(2) of the Act, where any listing permission is not applied, as observed in the present case, the companies are required to refund all the money received as subscription within the stipulated time.

The intention of the companies to list or not is immaterial as it is mandated by the Act – SEBI infers!!!

SEBI Order analyses Section 55A & Section 73

The words “intend to get their securities listed” in Section 55A(1) (b) of the Act (which gives the power to SEBI) is clearly synonymous with the words “intend to offer their securities to public” (as per Section 73), as law mandates compulsory listing in case of public issues and specifies that any condition to waive this requirement is void [as per Section 73(4)].

If to 50 or more persons, then to 1000 or more persons!!!

Once the company is mandated to list, it shall comply with the requirements of SEBI ICDR regulation as the debentures are convertible into Equity.  Reading Section 67 with ICDR:

Once the issuer decides to offer its securities to 50 or more persons, then the issue is an offer to public at large, complying with the provisions prescribed in the ICDR Regulations which mentions that an issuer shall not make an allotment pursuant to a public issue if the number of prospective allottees is less than 1000, to ensure there is sufficient liquidity in the scrip post listing.

In such case, it shall file RHP with SEBI atleast 30 days in advance before filing the same with RoC – SEBI infers!!!

SEBI tooks pains to highlight the clauses of ICDR not complied with, in this link:

http://www.sebi.gov.in//cmorder/SaharaAnnexure.pdf

SEBI also claims the Prospectus filed by the company is not fully adequate with requisite legal information.  On analysing the above mentioned violation of Companies Act & some other observations by SEBI on the financials had issued an ad interim, ex-parte Order vide WTM/KMA/CFD/316/11/2010.

The Company claims unlisted companies cannot come under the purview of SEBI

The company deems the order as imprudent and irrational vide its RESPONSE as this order created a confusion among public that Sahara’s IPO is rejected (which is not at all the case though!!!).  Further, in the interest, image and goodwill of entire Sahara India Pariwar, the company has disclosed the details in its RESPONSE.

SEBI’s Order: WTM/KMA/CFD/316/11/2010

Sahara’s Response: RESPONSE

This case may give an answer to the BERMUDA TRIANGLE of what if issue to 50 or more persons but less than 1000 persons. 

• Will the company take the Writ route to re-examine the jurisdiction of SEBI with respect to Section 55A read with Section 73?
• Believe, this cannot have the same HAPPY ENDING with Consent Order at later stages. 

We shall await for the Securities Appellate Tribunal’s (SAT) interesting response. 

OnlyThisMuch 3rd edition Book Release along with exam winning tips to readers [event invite]

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MCA RoC Additional Delayed Filing Fees Calculator under Companies Act - Max 9 times beyond 90 days

MCA has decided to revise the additional fees payable as per Section 611(2) of the Companies Act, 1956 (except for Form 5) as per below details with effect from 5^th December 2010.  Kindly note as per Schedule X, the delayed filing fee shall not exceed 10 times of the actual filing fee.

New Period of Delay(from 5th December 2010)	Fixed rate of additional fee*	Erstwhile Period of Delay (before 5th December 2010)
UPTO 30 days	2 times of normal filing fee	More than 1 month up to 3 months
More than 30 days and upto 60 days	4 times of normal filing fee	More than 3 months up to 6 months
More than 60 days and upto 90 days	6 times of normal filing fee	More than 6 months up to one year
More than 90 days	9 times of normal filing fee	More than 2 years

Note*: The additional fees are payable over and above the normal filing fees.

Form	Period of delay	Rate of Additional Fees*
5	Up to one year	2% of filing fees per month or part thereof of delay
	Exceeding one year	2.5% of filing fees per month or part thereof of delay

In order to avoid payment of additional fees, please file within stipulated time.

Source: MCA Additional Filing Fees Link & MCA / RoC Fees Calculator online

Attend MSOP SMTP online & get your Company Secretary long pending membership (ACS) now - ICSI welcomes more professionals

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) in collaboration with Gurukul Online Learning Solutions (GOLS) have come up with an initiative in the form of e-Management Skills Orientation Program (e-MSOP). The e-MSOP is basically a web-based training (WBT) wherein physical presence of the participant at the venue is not necessary. However, the final decision will depend on the response received. So, send your response now to: the Program Co-ordinator, e-MSOP, ICSI-CCGRT, Plot No. 101, Sector – 15, Institutional Area, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai – 400 614.  Phone: (022) 4102 1504 / (022) 27577814 Fax : (022) 2757 4384.  e-mail : ccgrt@icsi.edu  and icsiccgrt@gmail.com

1. For whom? A candidate occupying very senior position and who has completed Company Secretaryship Final exams on or before 1st September 2006 are eligible to apply. The decision of the Secretary & CEO whether to allow a candidate or not shall be final.
2. How much? Rs. 5000 (Five Thousand ONLY) per participant.
3. What is required? Connection to the internet, preferably through broadband. A good quality head-set is also necessary.

Modalities: Participants will be required to log onto the e-portal and participate in the program from their own office or residence.

Any participant who misses a session, will be given access to archived WBT sessions. The schedule will be posted on the web-site.

Details or Registration in  http://elearning.icsi.edu/e-msopAnnouncements.html

Enjoy training & welcome to become an ACS now!!!

Wholetime practising CS CA CWA can register as Facilitation Centre (CFC) for e-filing of excise, service tax now, website links for application forms given here

Setting up of Certified Facilitation Centers (CFCs) under ACES project of the CBEC

The ICSI/ICAI/ICWAI is pleased to inform you that the application format and other modalities for setting up of Certified Facilitation Centers (CFCs) under Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES) project of the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) has been finalised.

CFCs are set up by Professionals for the purposes of enabling e-filing of applications pertaining to Central Excise, Service tax, etc…The services provided by these CGC entail payment of service charges.

According to the scheme, a member of the ICSI/ICAI/ICWAI having valid Certificate of Practice and having at least one year of experience in practice can apply individually (not in the name of the firm) for registration as CFC after complying with the technical and other requirements as specified in the MOU.  The interested Whole Time Practicising Company Secretary/Chartered Accountant/Cost Accountant may make an online application for registration as CFC through the relevant link on our portal:

• ICSI: http://www.icsi.edu:8888/cbec
• ICAI: http://www.icai.org/post.html?post_id=5737&c_id=219
• ICWAI: http://www.icwai.org/icwai/institute-cbec.asp

The applicants are requested to note that he/she shall have to make a payment of Rs.1000/- only (non-refundable) towards application fees.

Enjoy certifyin…

Vacany in SEBI; Job for CS/CA/CWA freshers & more; apply before 31st of October 2010 - Hurry up, go for examination now

SEBI looking out your Curriculum Vitae or Biodata for over 90 posts.  Yes, an opportunity to work with the Market Regulator awaits you.  The post ranges from varied branch of qualification from Law to MBA to CA/CWA, etc… Interestingly, CTC is also good (Rs. 8.8 lakhs (approx) p.a.).

Brilliant opportunity for Freshers UPTO 27 years

As a Company Secretary/Chartered/Cost Accountant or CFA, you may join us an Asst. Manager, Officer Grade A – General Stream IF you could prove yourself well in an examination on i) English Language, ii) Quantitative Aptitude, iii) Reasoning ability and iv) General Awareness, of Objective type (Multiple Choice) for 200 marks will be held on Sunday, 05/12/2010. Candidates would have to secure minimum marks separately for each test as decided by the Board, based on Group Performance followed by an Interview.

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	EDIT/UPDATES APPLICATION DETAILS
	Date of Commencement of Application : 12/10/2010 Date of Closure : 31/10/2010 Start Date for Fee deposit : 09/10/2010 Last Date for Fee deposit : 31/10/2010 Last Date for Reprint : 15/11/2010

More details on October 08, 2010 - SEBI Recruitment Exercise – 2010

Click here to Apply Online

Keep me posted on your selection.  Apply now to regret it later.  Never to miss opportunity!!!