Compliance Calendar 2025-26

As we are heading to a new financial year, it’s important to keep track of compliances and complete them within the due dates. We are happy to share a comprehensive compliance calendar for private companies, small companies, not for profit covering secretarial, FEMA compliances, threshold compliances and many more!...

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SME IPO boom

Small Medium exchange (SME) is a stock exchange to list securities of Small & Medium Enterprises. Currently there are two SME exchange- NSE Emerge platform and BSE SME platform. SEBI had launched the SME platform in 2011 and since then there has been exponential growth in the number of...

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New Sexual Harassment Electronic- SHE box portal

New SHE box portal was launched on 29th August 2024 by the Ministry of women and child development which is centralized platform is designed to create a repository of information related to Internal Committee (IC) and Local Committee (LC) established across the country and to streamline the registration and monitoring of complaints related to...

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Industry Standards on disclosure u/r 30 of SEBI LODR

Regulation 30 of SEBI Listing Obligations and disclosure requirements (LODR) is the most talked about regulation pertaining to disclosure of certain events which covers almost ‘everything under the sun’ and many times there have been interpretation issues as to which incident requires disclosure, and which does not and how...

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MCA guidelines for Company/LLP name

The most crucial and important factor before you commence your business is deciding on the name of the company or LLP. There are certain guidelines or factors that needs to be considered before you can apply for name of your company or LLP with Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA)....

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Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”)

  The genesis of promulgating the DPDP Act is protection of huge personal digital data available with various authorities, intermediaries, ecommerce players and different connected parties. The growing digital economy has led to increased concerns over privacy and data security. Data protection in European Union is governed by General...

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Offer of Securities in Demat Mode

The Offer of securities in demat mode refers to the issuance or sale of securities in electronic or dematerialized form. Dematerialization involves converting physical certificates of securities into electronic form, which can then be held and traded electronically through a depository system. Regulatory authorities in many countries, including India,...

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Removal of director by shareholder under the companies Act, 2013 (‘the act’)

APPLICABLE PROVISIONS   Section 169 and 115 of the Act   ESTIMATED TIMELINES   30-35 days     TYPE OF MEETINGS   Board meeting and General meeting FORMS TO BE FILED   DIR-12   PENALTY FOR NON-COMPLIANCE Any non-compliance with respect to above provisions shall be punishable with fine...

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Alternatives for Long-term incentive plan

There are few options of long-term incentive plans for Employees commonly used by startups to attract and retain talent and build ownership towards the company. Some of these possibilities are explained here.     Akansha Rathi and Associates (ARACS), a distinguished Company Secretary firm in Navi Mumbai, offers a...

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