42. Issue of shares on private placement basis.—(1) A company may, subject to the provisions of this section,… — THE COMPANIES ACT, 2013

[42. Issue of shares on private placement basis.—(1) A company may, subject to the provisions of this section, make a private placement of securities.

3 [42. Issue of shares on private placement basis.—(1) A company may, subject to the provisions of this section, make a private placement of securities. (2) A private placement shall be made only to a select group of persons who have been identified by the Board (herein referred to as " identified persons " ), whose number shall not exceed fifty or such higher number as may be prescribed [excluding the qualified institutional buyers and employees of the company being offered securities under a scheme of employees stock option in terms of provisions of clause (b) of sub -section (1) of section 62], in a financial year subject to such conditions as may be prescribed. (3) A company making private placement shall issue private placement offer and application in such form and manner as may be prescribed to identified persons, whose names and addresses are recorded by the company in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that the private placement offer and application shall not carry any right of renunciation. Explanation I. I. — " private placement " means any offer or invitation to subscribe or issue of securities to a select group of persons by a company (other than by way of public offer) through private placement offercum-application, which satisfies the conditions specified in this section. Explanation II . — " qualified institutional buyer " means the qualified institutional buyer as defined in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009, as amended from time to time, made under the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, (15 of 1992). Explanation III . — If a company, listed or unlisted, makes an offer to allot or invites subscription, or allots, or enters into an agreement to allot, securities to more than the prescribed number of persons, whether the payment for the securities has been received or not or whether the company intends to list its securities or not on any recognised stock exchange in or outside India, the same shall be deemed to be an offer to the public and shall accordingly be governed by the provisions of Part I of this Chapter. (4) Every identified person willing to subscribe to the private placement issue shall apply in the private placement and application issued to such person alongwith subscription money paid either by cheque or demand draft or other banking channel and not by cash: Provided that a company shall not utilise monies raised through private placement unless allotment is made and the return of allotment is filed with the Registrar in accordance with sub-section (8). (5) No fresh offer or invitation under this section shall be made unless the allotments with respect to any offer or invitation made earlier have been completed or that offer or invitation has been withdrawn or abandoned by the company: Provided that, subject to the maximum number of identified persons under sub-section (2), a company may, at any time, make more than one issue of securities to such class of identified persons as may be prescribed. (6) A company making an offer or invitation under this section shall allot its securities within sixty days from the date of receipt of the application money for such securities and if the company is not able to allot the securities within that period, it shall repay the application money to the subscribers within fifteen days from the expiry of sixty days and if the company fails to repay the application money within the aforesaid

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