Question

Write short notes on the following :
Why is the statement in-lieu-of prospectus prepared and filed?

Answer 1

Where a public company does not invite public to subscribe for it shares but arrange money from private sources, it needs not issue the prospectus to the public. But the company has to get its prospectus registered three days before the allotment of shares. Thus, the company not inviting public to subscribe, prepare a draft prospectus which contains the information given in schedule III of the act, such a draft prospectus is knows as a statement in lieu of prospectus.