sebi:WTMO/59/CFD/12/2005

SEBI · SEBI · 2005-03-14 · Madhukar, Whole-Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Exemption granted (conditional)

Provisions invoked

• s. 19
• s. 81
• s. 173

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 12
• Reg. 5
• Reg. 4(2)
• Reg. 11(1)
• Reg. 3(4)
• Reg. 8(3)
• Reg. 11(2)
• Reg. 11
• Reg. 4(6)
• Reg. 2(1)(h)(a)

Holding

Exemption was granted to Prabhat Capital Services Limited and PACs from complying with Regulation 11 of Chapter III of the Takeover Regulations for the proposed preferential allotment of 1,40,00,000 equity shares of Pasupati Acrylon Limited, subject to conditions including postal ballot and completion within 90 days of High Court approval for capital reduction.

Full text

Home » Enforcement » Orders » Orders of Chairman/Members Enforcement Enforcement▼ ORDER IN THE MATTER OF PROPOSED PREFERENTIAL ALLOTMENT OF EQUITY SHARES OF PASUPATI ACRYLON LIMITED – EXEMPTION APPLICATION FILED UNDER REGULATION 4(2) OF THE SEBI (SUBSTANTIAL ACQUISITION OF SHARES AND TAKEOVERS) REGULATIONS, 1997.  WTMO/ 59 /CFD/12/2005 1.0 BACKGROUND 1.1 Pasupati Acrylon Limited (hereinafter referred to as ‘the target company’) is a company limited by shares incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, having its registered Thakurdwara, Kashipur Road, Distt. Moradabad, U.P – 244 601. The equity shares of the target company are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd and the Calcut Exchange Limited. 1.2 The target company has proposed to allot 1,40,00,000 equity shares constituting 18.07% of equity capital of the target company by way of preferential allotment to Prabhat Services Limited (hereinafter referred to as ‘the acquirer’) and the persons acting in concert (PACs) with it viz. Shubh Exim Ltd., Sind Wave Finance Services, Gurukripa F Ltd. and Inder Overseas P Ltd. The said 1,40,00,000 equity shares represent 18.07% of the enhanced equity capital of the target company after proposed allotment. 1.3 The acquirer and PACs belong to the promoter group of the target company. Presently, the shareholding of promoter group is 47.43% in the equity capital of the target compan includes 7.84% equity shares held by PICUP which is a State level Financial Institution and the acquirer do

601. The equity shares of the target company are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd and the Calcutta Stock Exchange Limited. 1.2 The target company has proposed to allot 1,40,00,000 equity shares constituting 18.07% of equity capital of the target company by way of preferential allotment to Prabhat Capital Services Limited (hereinafter referred to as ‘the acquirer’) and the persons acting in concert (PACs) with it viz. Shubh Exim Ltd., Sind Wave Finance Services, Gurukripa Finvest P Ltd. and Inder Overseas P Ltd. The said 1,40,00,000 equity shares represent 18.07% of the enhanced equity capital of the target company after proposed allotment. 1.3 The acquirer and PACs belong to the promoter group of the target company. Presently, the shareholding of promoter group is 47.43% in the equity capital of the target company which includes 7.84% equity shares held by PICUP which is a State level Financial Institution and the acquirer does not hold any shares in the target company. Pursuant to the proposed preferential allotment, the shareholding of promoter group would increase from 47.43% to 56.93% in the enhanced equity capital of the target company. The proposed acquisition would, therefore, attract Regulation 11(1) read with proviso to Regulation 11(2) of the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) Regulations, 1997 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Takeover Regulations’). 2.0 APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION - 2.1 The acquirer has, vide its letter dated 14.3.2005, made

Mechanism to make the target company’s operations viable by reducing debt and interest burden, re-scheduling of loans, etc. (c) The lead banker, Allahabad Bank referred the matter to the Corporate Debt Restructuring Cell of IDBI for restructuring the debts of the target company under the CDR Mechanism. CDR Empowered Group after discussing the restructuring proposal approved the same at its meeting held on 9.11.2004. The CDR package inter alia stipulates to write down equity share capital by 10% and the promoters are required to infuse/convert unsecured loan of Rs.14 crores into equity share capital of the target company. (d) The allotment of shares shall be in due compliance of the SEBI Guidelines governing preferential allotment. The allotment shall not in any way prejudice the interest of any shareholder or creditors of the target company. On the contrary, non-allotment of the shares would result in failure of the CDR proposal and would cause extreme financial burden on the target company and ultimately result in loss to the creditors and shareholders of the target company. (e) The proposed preferential allotment would not result in change of the composition of the Board of Directors of the target company as they along with the PACs are already in control of the target company. (f) The present number of shareholders in the target company is 77,793 and therefore, postal ballot for passing a special resolution for the preferential allotment would involve huge costs and will p

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