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Ever Wondered what’s your Business Worth ? Our Valuation Team has prepared a crisp Video on  “ How to Value a Company” for its broad understanding. Do let us know your feedback. “Knowing what business is worth and what determines its value is prerequisite for intelligent decision making”. Corporate valuations form the basis of corporate finance activity including M&A, fund raising, Sale of businesses, Succession planning and also to meet regulatory and accounting requirements. The rapid globalization of the world economy has created both opportunities and challenges for organizations leading to uncertainty blowing across global markets and raising the importance of independent valuations all over the world. Justifying the value of businesses has grown more complex and challenging as its been accepted that valuation of closely held / infrequently traded listed shares is not an exact science and depends upon a number of factors like purpose, minority/ controlling interest, sta...

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (“DIPP”), Government of India has unveiled the much awaited policy on Foreign Direct Investment on 17.04.2014 (“Consolidated FDI Policy”). This policy supersedes all earlierpolicies, circulars, press notes issued on FDI by DIPP and will remain in force until superseded. The Consolidate FDI policy is more of a compilation of circulars issued by Reserve Bank of India and press notes issued by DIPP during the last year. The key changes brought by new FDI policy are as follow:

The Government of India, vide Press notes 4, 5 and 6 (2013 series), has notified changes in the Foreign Direct Investment Policy , which was cleared by the Cabinet early this month. The amendments include increase in the sectoral investment limits across different sectors, easing of conditions for multi-brand retail and a more restrictive definition of ‘control’ of a company. Following is a discussion on these Press Notes: Press Note No.4 (2013 series): Change in definition of “Control” The concept of "control" arises in several different contexts in corporate transactions. For instance, it is used to determine whether a mandatory open offer requirement arises under the SEBI Takeover Regulations. It also arises in the context of competition law, the merger control regime, and foreign direct investment (“FDI”) while dealing with the question of downstream investments by Indian companies that were owned or controlled by foreign investors, and most recently, in the Companies A...

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of India (DIPP) has notified the new consolidated policy on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on 5th April, 2013. This policy supersedes all earlier policies, circulars, press notes issued on FDI by DIPP. Mr. Pankaj Singla Sr. Associate +919971508320 pankaj@indiacp.com Barring few changes, this policy is more of a compilation of circulars issued by Reserve Bank of India in the past one year. The key features of new FDI policy are as follows:

Reporting under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) Today, a huge number of Indian entities are engaged in various transactions relating to foreign exchange which are governed by FEMA, 1999. Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 and the various regulations issued by the Reserve Bank of India stipulate various reporting requirements on the companies engaged in foreign exchange transactions. Every company engaged in the activity involving foreign exchange is required to do the reporting compliances within the stipulated time period. Penal provisions are applicable on the company for every late or Non-filing of returns by the Company.

Untitled Document Dear All, Greetings of New Year 2013! We, Corporatevaluations.in, a dedicated web portal on Biz Valuations are delighted to inform that we have completed our maiden year and express heartiest thanks to all our users who have made our venture highly successful and encouraging. The portal till date has already been browsed by 8000 plus users (approx.) and is complimented for its exhaustive & up to date Valuation Content Coverage , Research Articles , Real world Valuation Reports , Query section and its innovative free Business Valuation Calculator which has been widely appreciated. During the year we also had privilege to add certain elite clients for their varied Valuation needs. Looking forward...