Securities Law & Capital Markets

Capital markets, SEBI, IPO, corporate actions and listing compliance advisory.

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Security Law & Capital Marketing

Capital markets, SEBI, IPO, corporate actions and listing compliance advisory.

Public Offering Services

  • IPO planning and structuring
  • Mainboard IPO advisory
  • SME IPO assistance
  • Follow-on Public Offer (FPO)
  • Due diligence coordination
  • Merchant banker coordination
  • SEBI filing support
  • RHP/DRHP preparation support
  • Listing coordination

Corporate Actions

  • Rights issue planning
  • Bonus issue structuring
  • Preferential allotment advisory
  • SEBI compliance for preferential allotment
  • Pricing guidelines compliance
  • Shareholder approval processes

Registration Services

  • Merchant Banker registration
  • Stock Broker registration
  • Portfolio Manager registration
  • Investment Adviser registration
  • Research Analyst registration
  • Credit Rating Agency registration
  • Debenture Trustee registration
  • Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) registration
  • Custodian registration

Ongoing Listing Compliance

  • Quarterly compliance certification
  • Corporate governance reporting
  • Disclosures under Regulation 30
  • Related party transaction disclosures
  • Shareholding pattern reporting
  • Annual report preparation
  • Corporate announcements
  • Material event disclosures

M&A Regulatory Support

  • Takeover Code compliance (SEBI SAST)
  • Open offer management
  • Creeping acquisition compliance
  • Voluntary delisting advisory
  • Squeeze-out/drag-along processes

Insider Trading Framework

  • Code of conduct for insider trading
  • Trading window management
  • PIT (Persons of Insider Trading) register maintenance
  • UPSI (Unpublished Price Sensitive Information) handling
  • Pre-clearance procedures
  • Disclosure of trading by insiders

External Commercial Instruments

  • Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB)
  • American Depositary Receipts (ADR)
  • Global Depositary Receipts (GDR)
  • ECB (External Commercial Borrowing) compliance
  • RBI approval assistance
Scope of work

SEBI and listed-entity compliance, from issue support through to the disclosure discipline a listed board is held to.

Issues & allotments

  • IPO and FPO support, including the SME platform
  • Rights, bonus and preferential allotments
  • FCCB, ADR and GDR issues; SEBI registrations
  • Buyback, delisting and capital reduction

Ongoing listed compliance

  • LODR compliances — quarterly, half-yearly, annual and event-based
  • Corporate governance framework and board committee support
  • Reconciliation of share capital audit
  • Annual report and annual secretarial compliance report

Conduct & investor matters

  • Acquisition and takeover code compliance
  • Insider trading code and structured digital database
  • Postal ballot and e-voting scrutiniser
  • Investor grievance and SCORES management

Regulators and authorities we work with: IFSCA · SEZ Development Commissioner · RBI · SEBI · IRDAI · PFRDA · MCA and ROC · NCLT · DGFT · CBIC and Customs · FIU-IND · India INX, NSE IFSC and IIBX.