Analysis of recent M&A schemes impacting group restructuring: Strategies and preparations

In today’s dynamic corporate landscape, companies are restructuring to stay competitive, enhance efficiency, and unlock synergies. Group restructuring, especially through merger schemes, has become a key strategy to streamline operations and optimize resource allocation.

Join us for an insightful session exploring practical approaches, key trends, strategic considerations, and regulatory challenges for successful group restructuring with a focused lens on merger schemes, that examines the following elements:

• Rationale for Restructuring
• Restructuring Models – NCLT Merger/Demerger, Fast Track Merger, BTA
• Dispensation of Meeting of Creditors and Members
• Transition of employees
• Hurdles – Consent, Stamp Duty, Scheme Rejection and scope of contractual obligations
• Cross Border Merger Considerations
• Key Tax Considerations, including GAAR and GST
• Best Practices and Case Studies

Speaker - L. Badri Narayanan, Executive Partner, LKS