Northern Arc Capital IPO

Our Company was incorporated on March 9, 1989 at Madras, India as ‘Highland Leasing & Finance Private Limited’, a private limited company under the Companies Act, 1956 and was granted a certificate of incorporation by the Registrar of Companies, Tamil Nadu at Chennai (“RoC”). The name of our Company was changed to ‘IFMR Capital Finance Private Limited’ and a fresh certificate of incorporation dated June 19, 2009 was issued by the RoC. Our Company was then converted into a public limited company under the Companies Act, 2013, and consequently, the name of our Company was changed to ‘IFMR Capital Finance Limited’ and a fresh certificate of incorporation dated December 12, 2017 was issued by the RoC. Subsequently, the name of our Company was changed to ‘Northern Arc Capital Limited’ and a fresh certificate of incorporation dated February 20, 2018 was issued by the RoC. For further details in relation to changes in the name and the registered office of our Company, see “History and Certain Corporate Matters” beginning on page 318. Our Company is registered with the Reserve Bank of India (the “RBI”) as a non-banking financial company (“NBFC”) not accepting public deposits (certificate of registration No. B-07.00430).