Date and Time:
October 19, 2022 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Event Location:
Online, India
Description
Achromic Point pleased to invite you to our Masterclass on Companies Act- Key Issues and Recent Amendments scheduled on 19th October 2022. This Masterclass will provide an opportunity to prove and improve you or your team’s credentials as the Companies Act Professional which is crucial in a global business environment.
In this we will be discussing upon the Overview of recent changes in Companies Act 2013, Inter-Corporate Transactions and Related Party Transactions, Corporate Social Responsibility, Frauds under Companies Act 2013 and much more.
Who should attend?
- Managing Director
- CEO & CFO
- Company secretary
- Finance Professional
- General Manager
- Companies Act Professionals
Thought Leaders:
- Ekta Bahl
Partner
SAMVĀD: PARTNERS - Lokesh Dhyani
Partner
Aekom Legal - Anup Vijay Kulkarni
Partner
J Sagar Associates - Moushumi Vaidya
Executive Director, Forensic Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited
Event Timelines
Session 1: Overview of recent changes in Companies Act 2013
• Company Officers and Key Managerial Personnel
Appointment of Directors
Different types of Directors
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Directors, Managing Director, Chairman, CEO, COO, CFO
• Independent Directors
• Company Secretaries
Resignation and Removal Of Directors
• Liabilities of Directors
• Liability of directors in voluntary strike off
• Duties of Directors
• Management and Administration
• Overview and important changes in aspect relating to Audit and Auditor
New Rules for Small Companies
Session 2:
• Inter-Corporate Transactions and Related Party Transactions
• New Regulatory Framework of Related party transactions
• How to deal with conflicts of interest
• Holding and Subsidiary Companies- Introduction
• Holding and Subsidiary Companies- Advanced Reading
• Layering of subsidiaries under Companies Act 2013
• Governance of joint ventures
• Issues related to related cross-border entities
Break
Session 3
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Decoding CSR through MCA
• CSR Amendments in Companies (Amendment) Act, 2020
• Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Amendment Rules, 2021
• Spending mandate: consequences of not spending requisite CSR amount
• Retention of money for “ongoing projects”
• Scope of CSR spending defined with carve-outs
• Carry backward of CSR spending
• Registration of implementing agencies
• Impact assessment
• Board responsibilities for spending
• Enhanced disclosures.
• Taxation on CSR
Session 4: SEBI Regulations
• SEBI’s Proposed changes to Framework of Promoters, Promoter Group & Independent Directors
• Regulatory changes in LODR Regulations and ICDR Regulations
Session 5:
• Frauds under Companies Act 2013
Present scenario of frauds in Companies
Judicial trends on matters relating to corporate frauds
Standards of proof
Implications of Section 447 of the Companies Act, 2013 being included as scheduled offence under the PMLA, 2002
Fraud and white-collar crime: Criminal and other risks for directors
Criminal Provisions and Directors' Liability Under Regulatory Statutes
