Course outline and Guidelines for Project Topics for Corporate Law-II

[Harpreet Kaur]

Dear Students,

I hope that all of you must be performing good in your exams. After your exams are over you have to get approval of research topics for Corporate Law-II before leaving the campus. Projects will be assigned to a team of two students only. You can continue to have the same teams which you had in Corporate Law-I. The course outline of the Corporate Law-II is given below. You can visit website of SEBI/ MCA/Competition Commission for selecting cases, in case you want to analyse any particular case for your research. Some topics are also suggested below the course outline.

Last date for approval of topics is December 25, 2011. Please get the approval of the topic, additional time will be given for submission of synopsis.

Please ensure to meet all deadlines related to projects which will be given from time to time otherwise it may lead to deduction of marks.

all the best!!

Corporate Law –II

Syllabus

1.     1.  Introduction

2.    2.   SEBI Act, 1992:

a.       Establishment , functions and powers of the Securities Exchange Board of India

b.      Establishment, jurisdiction and authority of Securities Appellate Tribunal

 

3.    3.   Powers under the Companies Act, 1956 administered by SEBI: Section 55-A, Companies Act

A:    Issue of Securities:

a.       SEBI ( Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements ) Regulations, 2009

b.      Unlisted Public Companies (Preferential Allotment) Rules, 2003

 

B.     Issue of Corporate Debt Securities:

a.       SEBI (Public Offer and Listing of Securitised  Debt Instruments) Regulations, 2008

b.      SEBI ( Issue and Listing of Debt Securities) Regulations, 2008

 

C.    Delisting of securities:

a.       SEBI (Delisting of Securities ) Guidelines, 2003

b.      SEBI (Delisting of Equity Shares) Regulations, 2009

 

4.     4.  Derivative Trading in India

 

5.     5.  Effective Corporate Governance:

a.       SEBI ( Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 1992

b.      SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent & Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Markets) Regulations, 2003

 

6.      6. The Depositories Act, 1996

7.     7.  The Securities Contracts (Regulations) Act, 1956; Listing agreement

8.      8. Corporate Investigations

9.    9.   Corporate Restructuring

a.       Provisions of Companies Act

b.      SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares & Takeovers)Regulations, 1997

c.       Combinations under Competition Act, 2002

 

 Suggested topics: 

1. Public issue: IPO/FPO

2. Debt securities: convertible/non-convertible

3. Role of merchant banker

4. Promoters: their group and contribution

5. Derivatives: legal aspects

6. Investigations into affairs of companies

7. Corporate restructuring

8. Analysis of provisions relating to combinations under Competition Act

9. Preferential allotment

10. Private placement

11. Unfair practices in issue of securities 

12. Primary & Secondary markets

13. Indian Depository Receipts

14. Insider trading

15. Role of depositories

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Dr. Harpreet Kaur

Professor of Law,

National Law University,

New Delhi