Beneficial ownership reports If your company has registered a class of its equity securities under the Exchange Act, shareholders who acquire more than 5% of the outstanding shares of that class must file beneficial owner reports on Schedule 13D or 13G until their holdings drop below 5%.
Where any change occurs in the beneficial interest in such shares, the registered owner and the beneficial owner shall, within a period of 30 days from the date of such change, make a declaration to the company in MGT-4 and MGT-5, respectively in duplicate.
What is a shareholder's beneficial status? 'Beneficially held' means that the owner of the shares gets the direct benefit from the shares. Direct benefits include dividend payments. If the shareholder is not holding the shares on behalf of another person, organisation or trust, the shares are beneficially held.
(i) A person shall be deemed to be the beneficial owner of a security, subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this rule, if that person has the right to acquire beneficial ownership of such security, as defined in Rule 13d-3(a) (§ 240.13d-3(a)) within sixty days, including but not limited to any right to acquire ...