The document outlines the legal procedures for mergers and amalgamation in India. It discusses 23 steps in the process, including getting board approval, notifying stock exchanges, applying to the High Court, holding shareholder and creditor meetings, getting High Court sanction, transferring assets and liabilities, and filing documents with the registrar of companies. It also lists the largest mergers and acquisitions deals in India, led by Tata Steel's acquisition of Corus for $12.2 billion.

1. LEGAL PROCEDURES FOR
MERGERS
&
AMALGAMATION
PRESENTED BY
ANAND MARDA

2. Legal Procedures
Permission for merger
Information to the stock exchange
Approval of board of directors
Application in the High Court
Shareholders’ and creditors’ meetings
Sanction by the High Court
Filing of the Court order
Transfer of assets and liabilities
Payment by cash or securities

3. Procedure for Merger &
Amalgamation
 (1) Scheme of amalgamation
 APPOINTED DATE
 EFFECTIVE DATE
 (2) Approval of Board of Directors for the scheme
 (3) Approval of the scheme by specialized financial
institutions/banks/trustees for debenture holders
 (4) Intimation to Stock Exchange about proposed Amalgamation
 (5) Application to Court
 (6) High Court directions for members’ meeting
 (7) Approval of Registrar of High Court to notice for calling the
meeting of members/ creditors

4.  (8) Dispatch of notices to members/ shareholders
 (9) Advertisement of the notice of members’ meetings
 (10) Confirmation about service of the notice
 (11) Holding the shareholders’ general meeting and
passing the resolutions
 (12) Filing of resolutions of general meeting with
Registrar of Companies
 (13) Submission of report by the chairman of the
general meeting to Court

5.  (14) Submission of Joint petition to court for
sanctioning the scheme
 (15) Issue of notice to Regional Director
 (16) Hearing of petition and confirmation of scheme
 (17) Filing of Court order with ROC by both the
companies
 (18) Transfer of the assets and liabilities
 (19) Allotment of shares to shareholders of transferor
company

6.  (20) Listing of the shares at stock exchange
 (21) Court order to be annexed to memorandum of
transferee company
 (22) Preservation of books and papers of amalgamated
Co.
 (23) Withdrawal of the Scheme not permissible

7. MERGERS AND ACQUISITION IN
INDIA

8. Largest M&A Deals in India
1. Tata Steel-Corus, $12.2 billion
2. Vodafone-Hutchison Essar, $11.1 billion
3. Hindalco-Novelis, $6 billion
4. Ranbaxy-Daiichi Sankyo, $4.5 billion
5. ONGC-Imperial Energy, $2.8 billion