by Rajat Sharma | Mar 11, 2014 | Consulting, management |
The past few years have seen a spate of FCPA enforcement actions against US Corporations with imposition of unprecedented fines and penalties. In 2008, Siemens paid the highest penalty to date – $800 million[i]. U.S. enforcement agencies have also imposed significant...
by Rajat Sharma | Feb 9, 2014 | Consulting, equity |
When a company starts its business, it issues shares in proportion to the initial capital brought in by the promoters (i.e. those who start the business as a company). As the business of the company grows, the promoters often require more capital to meet the company’s...
by Rajat Sharma | Feb 5, 2014 | company, Consulting, management |
Hostile takeovers in India are not very common. The use of advanced takeover defenses is hardly ever required and directorial conduct in such situations never comes under any serious scrutiny. Sometime back, I wrote about the standard of conduct required of board of...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 15, 2014 | Consulting, debt, equity |
To ascertain the financial health of a company, amongst other things, it is important to analyze the capital structure of the company to understand how much of borrowed money does the company operate with. One of the most important financial indicator and which gets...
by Rajat Sharma | Dec 26, 2013 | company, Consulting, investment |
Over the years the public sector has played a central role in enabling India to accomplish the national objective of self-reliance. It is therefore natural to feel uncanny about the idea of disinvesting, specifically, when the issue is of disinvesting profitable...
by Rajat Sharma | Dec 9, 2013 | company, Consulting |
This is the part 2 of – this article on ICDR Regulations Let’s take the example of Confused Publicity Limited (“Issuer”). The Issuer is a media company primarily engaged in the business of writing about the lifestyle of the rich and famous and regularly features...
