Sec 316: Appointment of a person as MD in a public company, if he is already the MD or Manager of one other company. Now the other company may be the Private company or may be the public company
Ans 1 : As per sec 316(2), a person can get appointed as MD of 2 public companies simultaneously with unanimous Board Reolution.
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As per sec 316(4), a person can get appointed as MD of 2 or more companies with Prior CG 's Approval (in E-Form 25A) + Unanimous Board Resolution.
So there is no limit of no. of companies to become the MD in any company whether it is public or private
if it is private company then law is silent because mostly private company have Manager not MD so about MD in private company law does not say anything and also as per sec 197A there is absolute prohibition on a company to have 1 Manager and 1 MD simultaneously
if there is a public company then sec 316 is applicable