2004-03-01
The Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidelines to permit the listing of companies with constrained share ownership provisions, overriding a previous refusal to amend listing requirements. These rules allow non-demutualized entities to limit single shareholder ownership to a maximum of 20% and demutualized entities to 5%, provided shareholders approve the constraints via special resolution. Listings are restricted to a maximum initial period of five years, with a possible two-year extension contingent on shareholder and Exchange approval, after which the constraints must be removed.