Company Meetings - Law, Practice and Procedure

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Description
Meetings concern every organisation. They concern most of the companiesregistered under the Companies Act because every company has to hold avariety of meetings during its lifetime. While board, committee andannual general meetings are of regular occurrence, other meetings areof occasional occurrence. The rigmarole of convening and conduct ofmeetings, and the post-meeting formalities, involve a great deal ofwork that every company secretary and her/his staff has to attend to.This is equally true of the company which does not have a qualifiedcompany secretary. Meetings are governed by the statute and the articles of association ofthe company and, therefore, complying with the requirements under themis a vital duty of a company secretary. This is more rigorous in listedcompanies owing to additional obligations under the listing agreement.Sometimes meetings are also impacted by shareholders' agreement orother documents. This book caters to the needs of all types of companies, private andpublic, listed and unlisted as well as concerning all types ofmeetings. The book not only deals exhaustively with the law as well asprocedures and practices relating to all aspects of the convening andconduct of meetings, but also with all types of meetings. The appendixto the book sets out, in simple and lucid language, several sampleresolutions that are commonly required to be passed in companies. Thebook will be equally useful to company secretaries, lawyers and judges.Organisations other than companies will also find it useful as apractical guidebook.
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Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Notice of a General Meeting and Explanatory Statement
Chapter 3 - Motions and Resolutions
Chapter 4 - Quorum at a General Meeting
Chapter 5 - Proxies and Representatives at a General Meeting
Chapter 6 - Voting at a General Meeting
Chapter 7 - Chairman of and Proceedings at a General Meetings
Chapter 8 - Adjournment and Postponement of a General Meeting
Chapter 9 - Annual General Meeting
Chapter 10 - Extra Ordinary General Meeting
Chapter 11 - Meetings of Board of Directors and committees of Directors
Chapter 12 - Minutes of Meetings
Chapter 13 - Class Meetings
Chapter 14 - Meetings in Respect of Compromise, Arrangement and Amalgamation
Chapter 15 - Meetings in Respect of Winding-up of a company
Chapter 16 - Meetings of Debenture Holders
Appendices
Appendix  I : Companies (Management and Administration Rules, 2014
Appendix II : Exemptions to Private Companies under Section 462 of the Companies Act, 2013
Appendix III : Exemptions to Government Companies under Section 462 of the Companies Act,2013
Appendix IV : Secretarial Standard on Meetings of the Board of directors (SS-1)
Appendix V : Secretarial Standar on General Meetings -(SS-2)
Subject Index
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Author Details
Dr KR Chandratre is a practising company secretary with over 25 years' experience. He has an impressive academic background, and holds a Master's degree in commerce, an LL B and LL D from the University of Pune. He was the President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India during 1996 and was also the Vice-President for two years. He was a member of the Working Group on Redrafting of the Companies Act, 1956 constituted by the Government of India in August 1996, to draft a new Companies Act to be substituted for the Companies Act 1956, which resulted in the Companies Bill, 1997. He also served as the Chairman of the Committee on 'Delisting of Securities' constituted by SEBI in March 1997. He was the President of the Pune Stock Exchange, Pune, India, during April 2004 to April 2005. Dr.Chandratre has so far authored over 1000 articles and 24 books on various subjects in the areas of Corporate Laws and Corporate Secretarial Practice. He has also addressed more than 300 seminars, workshops, conferences and conventions besides contributing papers at national and international levels.
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