News & Media 4th Feb 2025

Merger Mania: Will big listed companies get to skip the company court?

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Abhishek SanyalPartner | New Delhi | Noida

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The Centre may consider eliminating mandatory approval from the company law court in the merger and demerger of local listed rms, two people aware of the discussions in said, over eight years after it allowed the leeway for certain types of companies. The move could reduce the burden on the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) benches and speed up the process, potentially reshaping the country’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape.

To encapsulate on this issue, the recent article, “Merger Mania: Will big listed companies get to skip the company court??” by Neha Joshi & Anirudh Laskar features insights from our Partner Abhishek Sanyal on this issue.

Link to the article here

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