✔️ Companies Act 2013
• Fast-track mergers under Section 233 of the Companies Act, 2013
• Recent amendment to the Companies (Compromise, Arrangements and Amalgamation) Rules, 2016
✔️ Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) & Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC)
• The new framework on the issuance of shares with differential voting rights
• SEBI Circular of 2017 (amended in 2018)
• Max Ventures and Industries Ltd. merging with Max Estates Ltd. shows how easier the process of reverse merger has been made
• Applicability of IBC to M&A transactions
• Case Studies
✔️ Competition Law
• Recent amendments to the Competition Act of 2002, which aim to strengthen competition regulation, streamline operations and foster a business-friendly environment
• Exemption from stand-still obligations - market purchases and other transactions on stock exchanges
• Deal value threshold and the De-minimis exemption
• Definition of control and the concept of 'material influence'
• Penalty indexed to Global Turnover