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Risk Management Committee: Now recommended under Company Law too

Risk Management Committee is a committee formed to oversee the risk management policy and global risk management framework of a company....

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Aug 14, 20223 min read

Issuing Restricted Stock Units and Stock Appreciation Rights to employees

The latest Report of the Company Law Committee presented in 2022 has recommended numerous changes in the Companies Act, 2013. Apart from...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Aug 7, 20223 min read

Revisiting the provisions of ‘Independent Director’ in the light of recent cases

An Independent Director, as the name suggests, is a third party individual who is supposed to be independent and not have any relations...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jul 31, 20227 min read

Younger Boards and Start-ups: the role of professionals therein

It was recently reported that nearly 30% of all the Director Identification Numbers (DIN) allotted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jul 24, 20225 min read

Emerging concept of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) in India

In line with its motto of ‘Ease of Doing Business’ an SPAC is one of the newest alternative fundraising option that is all set to be...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jul 17, 20226 min read

Mandatory ESG Reporting in India and COVID-19 as a catalyst for it

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every facet of the lives of people of this planet and at the same time brought to the...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jul 10, 20224 min read

Re-Domiciliation of Companies

This is a concept alien to us in India. Corporate re-domiciliation is the process of shifting the domicile of a company (i.e. its place...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jul 3, 20222 min read

Sustainable Investing approaches: ESG, SRI and Impact Investing

Investing is no longer about only the financial returns. A large number of socially motivated investors do want their money to fund...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jun 26, 20225 min read

CSR Audit vs Corporate Responsibility Index

The Government of India is in the process of overhauling the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework. To ensure better compliance...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jun 19, 20229 min read

Professional Liability Insurance for Company Secretaries

Introduction Professional liability insurance is a type of commercial liability insurance. It is meant for the protection of...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jun 12, 202211 min read

Social Stock Exchanges: Scope for Professionals

Social Stock Exchange (SSE) is one of the newest concepts introduced in India by SEBI recently. It opens up a whole new horizon for...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

May 29, 20226 min read

Corporate Governance - An Economic Perspective

“In a more globalized, interconnected and competitive world, the way that environmental, social and corporate governance issues are...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

May 21, 202213 min read

ESG Compliance: Battle in the Boardroom

Oscar Wilde once aptly said “I forgot that little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and therefore what one has done in...

Corporate

Dr. Paritosh Nandi

May 9, 20224 min read

Orangutan in the Board: A step further towards Board Diversity

In a path-breaking step towards increased Board-level diversity, Mun Kee Ma-Jik Bhd, a palm oil company in Malaysia recently appointed an...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Apr 7, 20224 min read

From ‘Comply or Explain’ to mandatory spending regime - A Paradign shift in Indian CSR law

When the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility was introduced in the Indian legal system through section 135 of the Companies Act,...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Mar 25, 20225 min read

Corporate Governance in Family Businesses

What is Corporate Governance? Corporate governance essentially involves balancing the interests of a company's many stakeholders, such as...

Corporate

Rupanjana De

Jan 31, 20225 min read