If you are about to apply for a loan or in the process of obtaining a loan for your business, this article will help you to learn about the process of creating a charge on a loan or any modification in existing charge and formalities when a charge is satisfied as given under Companies Act, 2013.

This article will give you insights into the identification, materiality thresholds, approvals, and disclosures of related party transactions given under the Companies Act, 2013 and Securities, and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (hereinafter referred to as "Listing Regulations").

New provisions are provided for physical verification of registered office of companies vide The Companies (Incorporation) Third Amendment Rules, 2022. For this purpose, a new Rule 25B has been inserted into Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014.

Accordingly, a holding company is allowed to have only up to two layers of subsidiaries excluding one layer of wholly-owned subsidiaries. Parallelly, the restriction on investment through not more than two layers of investment companies also applies.

Corporates are using the technology of video conferencing for conducting its board meetings and coming out with more collective and objective decision-making with wider participation of directors. The benefits of participation by video-conferencing are cost savings, more productivity, time-saving in terms of reaching the venue of meeting, particularly when the concerned director(s) is/are located in another city or even another country, etc.

Once a company is registered, its distinct status, assets and liabilities continue till it is deregistered by the Registrar of companies.

Under the Companies Act, the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) has extended the deadlines for numerous compliances and waived late fines on various files.

A change in the name of a company leads to a change in the name clause in MOA. Therefore, the procedure for alteration of MOA given in section 13 of the Companies Act, 2013 has to be followed by the company.

The power conferred under Rule 86A is very drastic. Power under Rule 86A should be invoked only if fraudulent ITC or ineligible ITC has been claimed by the assessee and the authority has recorded the reasons for the same in writing. The authority is bound to record the reasons of invoking Rule 86A in writing and communicate such reasons to the assessee. On receipt of such reasons, the assessee is entitled to make his submission/objection requesting for lifting.

In this article, you will get a detailed analysis of the new “company name” norms that will be effective from 1st of September 2021.