Cross-Breeding of Entities: NCLT upholds the view!
Pammy Jaiswal
Partner, Vinod Kothari and Company
Background
Even though each time when law is amended, the stakeholders do expect the change will be a gap filing exercise or a step towards making it more liberal or strict, as the case may be. However, sometimes such amendment comes with a lacuna. Earlier under the Companies Act, 1956 (‘Act, 1956’), sections 391 – 394 dealt with the provisions of compromises, arrangements, amalgamation and reconstruction. The said provisions were re-casted under the Companies Act, 2013 (‘Act, 2013’) under sections 230 – 234. The said provision under the Act, 2013 suffers from a significant gap.
This write-up is an attempt to foreclose the lacuna under the new provision under law and how the quasi-judicial body has correctly interpreted the said gap in law. Read more →