Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Amendment Rules, 2021 notified by MCA

MCA notifies the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Amendment Rules, 2021, to facilitate fast track mergers for Starts ups and other small companies (OPCs).

The fast track process for mergers under the Companies Act, 2013 has also been now extended to also include mergers of Startups with other Startups and with Small companies, so that the process of mergers & amalgamations is completed faster for such companies.

MCA Notification dt. 01/02/2021 : Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Amendment Rules, 2021

G.S.R. 93(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 469 read with sections 230 to 233 and sections 235 to 240 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Rules, 2016 namely:-

1. Short title and commencement.‐

(1) These rules may be called the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Amendment Rules, 2021.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Rules, 2016, in rule 25, after sub-rule (1) the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:-

(1A) A scheme of merger or amalgamation under section 233 of the Act may be entered into between any of the following class of companies, namely:-

(i) two or more start-up companies; or

(ii) one or more start-up company with one or more small company.

Explanation.- For the purposes of this sub-rule, “start-up company” means a private company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 or Companies Act, 1956 and recognised as such in accordance with notification number G.S.R. 127 (E), dated the 19th February, 2019 issued by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.

[F. No. 2/31/CAA/2013-CL.V]

Note: The The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 1134(E), dated the 14th December, 2016, and subsequently amended vide notification number G.S.R. 368(E), dated the 13th April 2017 and vide notification number G.S.R. 79(E), dated the 3rd February, 2020 and last amended vide notification number G.S.R. 773(E) dated 17th December, 2020.