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SEBI Show Cause Notice To Paytm Founder | NDTV Profit
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8/26/2024
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And now we are joined by Mr. Sriram Subramaniam, MD and founder of InGovern.
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Mr. Subramaniam, good evening. Thank you very much for joining us on the show.
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Now, Mr. Subramaniam, what is your view of what's happened? Of course,
00:11
at the heart of the matter is whether Vijay Shekhar Sharma should be classified as a promoter
00:16
or an employee while filing the IPO documents. So how do you see this and what do you see as its
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impact now? Firstly, this IPO happened almost three years ago and the RHP, that is the draft,
00:32
would have been filed with SEBI and the lawyers of the merchant bankers and other due diligence
00:40
itself would have gone through the legal process of scrutinizing the classification,
00:46
of scrutinizing the shareholding of various entities, including Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
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From at that time, the norms which were prevalent were any single entity holding more than 10%
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should be classified as promoter. Anyone holding below 10% should be classified as a non-promoter
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and that's how Vijay Shekhar Sharma was classified as a non-promoter because I think at that time he
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held less than 10%. But subsequently, one is, is SEBI right in now looking retrospectively
01:20
three years back and seeing whether they only approved that IPO. So from that perspective,
01:25
did they scrutinize the papers properly? So this brings to the question, can they look back and
01:31
declassify now retrospectively? The entire issue again became as to whether when Paytm started
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issuing ESOPs, one of the, this one was Vijay Shekhar Sharma himself. So to that extent,
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whether ESOP should be issued, that's a second matter. But a third matter is SEBI itself has
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floated a paper, a discussion paper saying that they need to move, Indian markets need to move
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away from the definition of promoter to persons in control. So to that extent, I think the concept
02:04
of promoter itself has outlived its usefulness. India is one of the few markets in the world to
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have this definition of promoter. So it's not clear as to what is the promoter role doing in
02:17
that sense. And SEBI itself has been devolving its own definition. So to that extent, the thinking
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has been changing. So it is, it would be interesting to see whether SEBI will now revisit
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what it only approved three years ago. Right, absolutely. So in a sense, this perhaps is an
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attempt by SEBI to hold directors responsible for more, you know, for potential compliance issues.
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Now, as far as the company is concerned, this is sort of another setback to them in terms
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from the regulators as well. So how do you see this going forward for them?
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I wouldn't think this is as big a setback as the RBI action, for example. This, if anything,
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puts the spotlight on SEBI itself. SEBI approved the IPO prospectus, right? And at that time,
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the classification, if Paytm had incorrectly disclosed, that is a different thing. But Paytm
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has disclosed all the data or I would think has disclosed in the draft rating prospectus correctly
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and lawyers and other lawyers of the merchant bankers, et cetera, would have done the scrutiny
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of the classification. So to that extent, if SEBI has to censure Paytm, it also has to censure
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itself because it has to pull up its own officers who get the approval for the IPO then.
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So you see this as quite a double-edged sword over there. Mr. Subramaniam,
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I appreciate your joining us on the show. Thank you.
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Yeah, because retrospectively it changes, right? I mean,
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they only approved it and now they can't go back and change it retrospectively.
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All right. Thank you very much for joining us on the broadcast.
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