05 October 2013
Right shares are the shares which are offered by the company to the existing shareholders.Simply stated the existing shareholders have a right to subscribe for the shares which are offered by the company after initial allotment until some special right is reserved for any other person by special resolution in this respect. Section 81 i.e Further issue of capital of companies act 1956 deals with this and it states that where at any time after the expiry of two years from the formation of a company or at any time after the expiry of one year from the allotment of shares in that company made for the first time after its formation, whichever is earlier, it is proposed to increase the subscribed capital of the company by allotment of further shares.
05 October 2013
A rights issue is a way in which a company can sell new shares in order to raise capital. Shares are offered to existing shareholders in proportion to their current shareholding, respecting their pre-emption rights.
Pre-emption rights are the rights of shareholders to be offered any new issue of shares before the shares are offered to non-shareholders.
The purpose of pre-emption rights is to ensure that shareholders have an opportunity to prevent their stake being diluted by new issues.