Paytm to expand its ESOP pool before IPO

BENGALURU: In a notification to its investors on Monday, One97 Correspondences Ltd (OCL), the parent which claims Paytm, said that it will extend its worker stock possession plan (ESOP) pool, and will hold an extra-normal comprehensive gathering (EGM) on September 2 to look for their endorsement.

As a piece of the letter, Paytm said that it hopes to change One 97 Worker Investment opportunity Plan 2019 by dramatically increasing its current ESOP pool from 24,094,280 value alternatives to 61,094,280 value choices at an assumed worth of?1 each.

Since its beginning, Paytm has planned two ESOP plans, to be specific, One 97 Worker Investment opportunity Plan 2008 and One 97 Representative Investment opportunity Plan 2019, as indicated by its draft distraction outline (DRHP) documented with the Protections and Trade Leading group of India (Sebi) in mid-July.

Through the increment of the ESOP pool, the organization is required to disperse choices to representatives who have added to the development of the organization, an individual said in a state of obscurity.

Through the EGM, the organization will likewise look for investor gestures to endorse the arrangement and compensation of new chiefs to its board including—Douglas Feagin, Ashit Ranjit Lilani, Neeraj Arora.

Mint has assessed a duplicate of the notification shipped off investors on Monday evening. A Paytm representative declined to remark on Mint’s questions on the matter.

Prior in July, Mint announced that OCL had rearranged its board supplanting Chinese nationals with Indian and US nationals, before its first sale of stock (Initial public offering).

In the new board mix, Feagin, senior VP at Insect Gathering, joined Paytm’s board, supplanting Insect Gathering director and CEO, Jing Xiandong. Debris Lilani, overseeing accomplice at Saama Capital, was selected as an autonomous chief, while previous WhatsApp leader Neeraj Arora, rejoined Paytm’s board in the wake of leaving it in 2018.

In the forthcoming EGM, Paytm will likewise be looking for investor endorsement on yearly compensation for free and extra chiefs selected to the organization’s board.

Goldman Sachs’ Imprint Schwartz; Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Co’s. Pallavi Shardul Shroff is scheduled for a yearly pay of?1.85 crores (or $250,000) each for the following three years. While most up to date participants, Lilani and Arora are required to draw a yearly remuneration of?1.48 crore each (or $200,000), for a similar period, the notification to investors expressed.

Read more at

https://www.climbstreet.com/paytm-to-expand-its-esop-pool-before-ipo/