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Ministry of Corporate Affairs has notified another Section, namely section 234 of
Companies Act, 2013 and issued rules thereunder, thereby enabling merger and
amalgamation of a foreign company.
“S.O. _____(E).— In
exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (3) of section 1 of the Companies
Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby appoints the 13th day of
April, 2017 as the date on which the provisions of section 234 of the said Act
shall come into force.”
Further the newly inserted Rule 25A Merger or Amalgamation
of a foreign company with a Company and vice versa provides that:
(1) A foreign
company incorporated outside India may merge with an Indian company after
obtaining prior approval of Reserve Bank of India and after complying with the
provisions of sections 230 to 232 of the Act and these rules.
(2) (a) A company may merge with a foreign company
incorporated in any of the jurisdictions specified in Annexure B after
obtaining prior approval of the Reserve Bank of India and after complying with
provisions of sections 230 to 232 of the Act and these rules.
(b) The transferee company shall ensure that valuation
is conducted by valuers who are members of a recognised professional body in
the jurisdiction of the transferee company and further that such valuation is
in accordance with internationally accepted principles on accounting and
valuation. A declaration to this effect shall be attached with the application
made to Reserve Bank of India for obtaining its approval under clause (a) of
this sub-rule.
(3) The concerned company shall file an application
before the Tribunal as per provisions of section 230 to section 232 of the Act
and these rules after obtaining approvals specified in sub-rule (1) and
sub-rule (2), as the case may be.
Explanation 1._ For the purposes of this rule the term
“company” means a company as defined in clause (20) of section 2 of the Act and
the term “foreign company” means a company or body corporate incorporated
outside India whether having a place of business in India or not:
Explanation 2. For the purposes of this rule, it is
clarified that no amendment shall be made in this rule without consultation of
the Reserve Bank of India.
Annexure B
Jurisdictions referred to in clause (a) of sub-rule (2)
of rule 25A
Jurisdictions –
(i) whose securities market regulator is a signatory to
International Organization of Securities Commission’s Multilateral Memorandum
of Understanding (Appendix A Signatories) or a signatory to bilateral
Memorandum of Understanding with SEBI, or
(ii) whose central bank is a member of Bank for
International Settlements (BIS), and
(iii) a jurisdiction, which is not identified in the
public statement of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as:
(a) a jurisdiction having a strategic Anti-Money
Laundering or Combating the Financing of Terrorism deficiencies to which
counter measures apply; or
(b) a jurisdiction that has not made sufficient progress
in addressing the deficiencies or has not committed to an action plan developed
with the Financial Action Task Force to address the deficiencies
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