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Section 42 and the 200-Person Limit: How an Unlisted Company Accidentally Makes a Public Offer

A private company raising from its network is one careless count away from having made a public issue — at which point the Companies Act's public offer machinery, the SCRA and SEBI all apply retrospectively. The limit, the exclusions, and the procedure that keeps you inside it.

6 min read · 13 Oct 2026

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