SEBI REDUCES BROKER TURNOVER FEES AND FILING FEES FOR ISSUERS

SEBI REDUCES BROKER TURNOVER FEES AND FILING FEES FOR ISSUERS • OVERVIEW Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) vide Press Release No

CS Lalit Rajput

Apr 27, 2020

Last update on Apr 27, 2020

SEBI REDUCES BROKER TURNOVER FEES AND FILING FEES FOR ISSUERS • OVERVIEW Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) vide Press Release No. PR No.: 24/2020 issued and publish dated 27th April, 2020, has published SEBI reduces Broker turnover fees and filing fees for issuers”

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• In its continuing efforts to help market participants to tide over challenges due to COVID 19, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has decided to reduce broker turnover fees and filing fees on offer documents for Public issue, Rights issue and Buyback of shares. • The broker turnover fee will be reduced to 50% of the existing fee structure for the period June 2020 to March 2021. The benefit of the above reduction in fees will automatically be passed on to the investors as well. • Filing fees on offer documents for Public issue, Rights issue and Buyback of shares will be reduced to 50% of the existing fee structure. This will be effective for documents filed from June 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020.

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CS Lalit Rajput

Company Secretary

Lalit Rajput is a qualified Company Secretary and graduate with 5+ years’ experience in handling Secretarial and Compliance management. Working as Proprietor at Lalit Rajput &Associates, Company Secretaries and Compliance Head at EDUXGURU. Key areas include handling Compliances related to Secretarial, Start-ups, SEBI, FEMA, Labour Laws, GST, NCLT, IPR, MCA/ROC, RTA etc. He has started his career in Adventz Group with one of leading EPC Company, Kalindee Rail Nirman - A Div. Of Texmaco Rail & Engineering Limited (erstwhile known as Kalindee Rail Nirman (Engrs.) Ltd.) and after that worked with Outcome Solutions & Services LLP, a Risk Advisory firm and S. Srinivasan & Co.,Leading Company Secretaries firm in Mumbai and Chennai. He is also an active blogger/Author at many platform and has written various articles on: Taxguru, Compliance Calendar LLP, Studycafe, Caclubindia, Casansaar, theTaxTalk, Lawyer’s Connect, IPleaders, Governance Professionals, Lawyers club India, Dealout Professionals and many more. He has also blogger at ENLIGHTEN GOVERNANCE and contributed articles in ICSI E-Corporate Manager published by ICSI Ahmadabad Chapter.