SEBI adds up avenue for dilution of Promoter stake

30 Aug 2012 Evaluate

Capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has amended the equity listing agreement to give promoters two more routes to dilute their stake to bring public holding to a minimum of 25%, viz, issuance of rights and bonus shares. As per this route, the promoter for dilution of stake will have to forego their entitlement to shares being issued in such rights and bonus issues to public shareholders.

These two additional avenues for sale of shares by promoters to meet minimum public holding norms (25% for private sector companies and 10% for PSU entities) were approved by SEBI's board on August 16. With the introduction of these two routes, the total number of routes available to promoters for diluting their shareholding sum up to five. Apart from these two new routes, companies can comply with minimum public shareholding norms via institutional placement programme (IPP), offer for sale by promoters, issuance of shares through prospectus and sale of shares held by promoters through the secondary market.

Further, the regulator has also added that companies wanting to meet the public shareholding requirement through any other means could approach the former with appropriate details. Based on merit such requests would be considered by the market regulator which would attempt to communicate its decision within 30 days from the date of receipt of such requests.

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