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Grey Matter Legal founders, Luthra partner launch new firm Aretha
Grey Matter Legal founding partners Ray Vikram Nath and Prashant Kumar, along with Luthra and Luthra Law Offices partner Nitin Gera have launched Aretha Legal.
“Grey Matter Legal has merged its practices into the newly...
High court decodes shape marks and their registration
A product has established itself in the marketplace if an average consumer starts associating its shape as a brand denoting the proprietary source of that product. Few such examples are Toblerone chocolate, the Coca-Cola...
IBBI amends liquidation regulations
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has made several major modifications to liquidation regulations, which came into effect on 6 September. The changes will ensure better stakeholder participation, cut back on delays...
JSA acts for SBI in stalled Dunar Foods insolvency proceedings
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) upheld an NCLT decision setting a precedent and paving the way for progress on the resolution of the Dunar Foods insolvency proceedings. JSA acted as the legal...
Bouncing back
As business and travel edge back to normal after the pandemic, which foreign law firms are leading the field with their India offerings? Vandana Chatlani finds out
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Partial sale of assets proposed in insolvencies
In a significant move that would bring major changes to insolvency procedures, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has proposed to allow the sale of part assets/businesses of corporates facing such proceedings.
However,...
SNG inks pact with R&P to widen geographical reach
Mumbai-based SNG & Partners and southern-based firm R&P Partners have created a pan-India presence after establishing a joint venture to widen their client base and strengthen their foothold outside their respective territories.
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Shaky ground
A spate of defaults at several prominent real estate companies has left creditors and homeowners on shaky ground, with several challenges awaiting them at the insolvency court, writes Vineeta Bansal
When Supertech, one of the...
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MICECA – Key to expanding India-Malaysia economic and trade ties
On 2 April 2022, Australia and India signed their highly anticipated Economic Co-operation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), six months after negotiations between the two nations restarted in September 2021. The ECTA is seen as...
CCI’s penalty orders need guidance, consistency
The Competition Act, 2002 (act), gives wide discretion to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to penalise enterprises and individuals for engaging in anti-competitive practices. Under section 27(b), the CCI can impose a penalty...
Withdrawal of CIRP may save corporate debtor
The object of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) is to maximise the asset value of the corporate debtor while protecting and balancing the interests of all stakeholders. The IBC discourages individual actions...
IBC offers attractive options for M&A deals
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) has gradually evolved but, following a number of amendments, now offers a value route for M&A transactions. Corporate insolvency prior to 2016 was a disordered process but...
Keeping up with IP
India’s IP regime is going through a tumultuous period with the abolition of the IP appellate board earlier this year, the emergence of new technologies, and challenges associated with covid-19 vaccines. We brought together...
Jumping ship
Several senior foreign lawyers with India expertise have joined new law firms of late. Vandana Chatlani explores what is prompting them to move
In the past 12 months, several foreign lawyers with prominent India-related experience...
New law on pre-pack resolution plans under IBC
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which provides for pre-packaged insolvency resolution processes (PPIRP), has received assent and replaces the Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021.
The bill inserts a new chapter, III-A,...
Chasing change
Regulating for a slice of tech pie
Tax authorities across the globe have been denied access to big tech profits by strategies made possible because of the digitalisation of economies and the flattening of borders....
Mapping global expertise
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Making sense of markets
Jitters, uncertainty can move stock prices
A superstar footballer moves two Coke bottles out of the spotlight during a press conference and replaces them with water, reportedly prompting a USD4 billion drop in Coca-Cola’s market value....
Gender in justice
Senior women lawyers across Asia share their personal stories of success, strategy, struggle and loss, all towards a more inclusive legal profession. Putro Harnowo reports
The legal profession has long been subject to criticism for...
IBC and exclusions from committee of creditors
During the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP), the committee of creditors (COC) is the de facto board of the defaulting company. The COC is constituted after collating all the claims on the debtor, and...
HSF’s disputes head joins Bird & Bird
Nicholas Peacock, the former head of the India disputes practice at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), has left the firm after 14 years to join Bird & Bird.
Peacock joins the firm as partner and head...
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Troubled MSMEs thrown a lifeline with pre-pack resolutions
The long-awaited Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021, (ordinance) has amended the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (code), with the aim of reviving micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). The ordinance has inserted...
Indian parties can choose foreign seated arbitrations
The Supreme Court put to rest the contentious issue on foreign-seated arbitration last month in a landmark judgment that brings India in line with international best practices and paves the way for Indian parties...
Guarantees will ensure better payment of debts for now
It is a common practice for lenders to obtain guarantees for securing financial assistance granted to a borrower entity. The guarantor’s liability crystallises as soon as the borrower defaults on the debt. However, the...
The conundrum of third-party security holders
Much has been said about the obligation of a third-party security provider when a borrower enters the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). Under a financing transaction,...
Driver’s seat
The pre-pack insolvency resolution process allows corporate debtors to take the wheel and steer their way out of tricky situations, but its success will depend on how certain roadblocks are bypassed. Akaant KM reports
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Future legal leaders
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Impact of insolvency and bankruptcy code on MSMEs
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) contribute 8% to GDP, employ 106 million, that is 40% of the workforce, produce 45% of manufacturing output and 40% of total exports. While MSMEs play a vital...
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Invocation of force majeure in insolvencies
The doctrine of frustration envisaged in section 56 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, was recently applied by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the case of Suraksha Asset Reconstruction Ltd & Ors...
Billions on the line
Vodafone may have won the day after a favourable arbitration result cut off India's claim to massive back taxes, but will this crucial award remain unchallenged when so much more is at stake? Freny...
Fox Mandal appoints new COO
Fox Mandal & Associates has hired Ramaswamy Balasubramanian as its new chief operating officer (COO).
Balasubramanian will oversee the operations of Fox Mandal and its strategic ambitions.
He will also serve as director of infrastructure advisory...
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Will Covid spell the end for Bollywood?
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” When Jean Cocteau said these words he would not know that much later they would sum up a revolution in the entertainment industry. Bollywood, regional cinema,...
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Court rules committee of creditors is supreme
Essar Steel India defaulted on repayment obligations to its creditors and in 2017 Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and State Bank of India filed petitions for financial debt under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016....
NBFCs brought under purview of insolvency code
With the introduction of a codified law on insolvency and bankruptcy processes, restructuring jurisprudence entered a new era. While the new law focused on rehabilitating and restructuring stressed companies, restructuring processes involving financial service...
Something for everyone in the Essar judgment
The long-awaited decision of the Supreme Court in Committee of Creditors of Essar Steel India Limited v Satish Kumar Gupta & Ors case comes as a relief for financial creditors, especially those holding security,...
New GC at Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages
Preeti Balwani has joined Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), the bottling arm of Coca-Cola, as its general counsel.
Prior to HCCB, Balwani was the general counsel of Kraft Heinz. She now moves to Bengaluru to work...
Evolution of the committee of creditors’ authority
The role of the committee of creditors (CoC) in a corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) has increasingly been scrutinized and clarified by various courts and tribunals, including the Supreme Court. There have also been...
A commercial primer on 2019 amendments to IBC
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2019, seeks to reduce delays in the resolution process because there has been extensive litigation on various aspects of the IBC. A resolution plan can provide for...
Recent amendments to insolvency regulations
With the introduction of The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2019, on 24 July 2019 in the Rajya Sabha, the government has sought to amend the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016. Earlier, the...
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Many hurdles in Deccan Chronicle insolvency
The legal team that advised on the Deccan Chronicle Holdings insolvency had to contend with multiple issues and challenges. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the resolution plan put forward by SREI Multiple...
Liquidation under IBC
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In the matter of SC Sekaran vs Amit Gupta & Ors, relying on the decisions of the Supreme Court in Swiss Ribbons Pvt Ltd & Anr v Union of India & Ors and...
Insolvency code: Judicial trends
Abhishek Tripathi and Avantika Shukla look at role of adjudicating bodies in IBC's evolution
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), is considered to be among the biggest achievements of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)...
Investing through insolvency code
IBC has created opportunities for equity and debt investors alike, write Sanjay Asher and Nikhil Kaul
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (code), notified by the government of India in May 2016, was in response...
Giving creditors their fair share
Protecting the interests of operational creditors is key to IBC's success, writes Mahesh Agarwal
The preamble of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), lays out the code’s dual objectives of “maximization of value of...
Commercial implications of RBI circular strike-down
The Supreme Court recently struck down the Reserve Bank of India Circular dated 12 February 2018 (RBI circular), which directed banks to mandatorily initiate corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) for defaulting companies with loan...
The International A-List 2019
India Business Law Journal reveals the top 100 India-focused legal experts outside the country
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For more than 20 years the opening of India’s legal market to foreign law firms has been the...
Former directors must be given agenda before creditors meeting
The Supreme Court, while dealing with an issue relating to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), held that former members of the board of directors, being vitally interested in resolution plans that may...
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In sickness & health
Rajiv Choubey explores the evolution of law surrounding insolvency and bankruptcy, and how regulations designed to protect sick companies had been misused until the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was enacted
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Government’s intervention in IL&FS default
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The government’s intervention in Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) is symptomatic of the push and pull motions the government faces in liberalizing its economy. Ideally, a few of IL&FS’ infrastructure focussed subsidiaries...
Extension beyond 270 days: New attempt at resolution
Strict timelines distinguish the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, from previous insolvency regimes. The code prescribes a 180-day period for completion of the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP), which can be extended to 270...
Homebuyers’ arsenal adds financial creditor status
With the recent amendment in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), effective 6 June 2018, the status of homebuyers who are allottees of a real estate project is raised to financial creditors, enabling...
Recognition of homebuyers: Sympathy without security
The fate of homebuyers when a real estate developer (RED) undergoes a corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), has been intensely deliberated. An amendment of the IBC...
Changes aim to halt abuse of insolvency proceedings
A rise in high-profile banking frauds led to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018. The ordinance, effective from 6 June, presses for greater transparency in the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP), to...
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Bhushan Steel IBC’s first big win
The legal team advising Tata Steel in its acquisition of Bhushan Steel faced significant challenges while carrying out a limited due diligence on the target.
“The due diligence process was very complex, as the information...
Realty sector reality check tempers home buyer news
With the coming into force of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018, home buyers have finally been recognized as financial creditors, at par with others in the same category. However, a reality...
Stress test
The battle between Vodafone and the government serves as a pressure gauge for the courts in investment treaty disputes. Rebecca Abraham reports on recent developments
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Court’s role in insolvency cases
Subodh Sadana and Bhuvan Arora analyse judicial intervention in insolvency resolution
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has so far travelled a short journey of about 18 months where it has already faced a plethora...
Tech savvy
Legal process management software products are becoming indispensable tools for in-house legal teams. Harsh Aggarwal and Roma Arora explain how they work
With general counsel now positioned within the highest ranks of company management, there...
A perfect storm
What you see may not be what you get
With the country’s banks taking yet another pummelling following the recent unearthing of large scale frauds, it is evident that checks and balances built into the...
True colours
Corporate counsel associations portray themselves as friend, adviser and management guide for in-house counsel. But are they delivering the goods? Gautam Kagalwala reports
In-house counsel are well aware of the services of corporate counsel associations...
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Circular on anomaly shows goals of code take priority
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), implements a “creditor-in-possession” regime that vests decision making powers of the insolvent company with a “committee of creditors” (CoC), astutely recognizing that financial creditors will be better...
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Weapons of choice
Are there any downsides to differentiating only on fees?
“Complete carnage” was how cricketer Ben Stokes described the moment during a bidding war at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction earlier this year, when a...
Payback time?
The evolution of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code is being closely watched by companies, creditors and the government for the part they hope it will play in alleviating the country’s stressed assets problem. Gautam...
Compliance issues under insider trading regulations
Since the introduction of the new insider trading regime in 2015, India’s securities market has seen a number of changes in terms of processes and controls for transactions and also with regard to routine...
High-level talks helped to secure shipyard IPO
Multiple rounds of top-level discussions were needed to secure an agreement on terms for Cochin Shipyard’s initial public offering (IPO), according to a lawyer at the law firm acting as international counsel to the...
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Practical implications of trading window closure
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 (PIT Regulations), restrict “insiders” from dealing in listed (or to-be-listed) securities when in possession of unpublished price sensitive information (UPSI). Any...
Sun, sand and support for in-house lawyers
More that 40 in-house lawyers, including heads of legal teams, attended a four-day conclave from 2 February to 5 February organized by the Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA). They included Mohit Shukla, managing director...
No internet connectivity on planes over Indian airspace
Each time you board an aircraft to fly in India or even overfly the country, you are journeying back in time. An iron curtain prohibits flyers in Indian airspace from enjoying Wi-Fi connectivity. While...
Ease of doing business: myth or battle cry?
Centre-state differences undermine efforts to present India as a favourable commercial destination, argues PM Devaiah
While the great Indian juggernaut of liberalization chugs along, the never ending debate on improving the ease of doing business continues...
Look before you leap
Every policy tweak can be expected to have an equal, and often opposite, reaction
This truism, which has its roots in Isaac Newton’s principles of motion published over 300 years ago, is arguably at the...
Sun, sand and networking for GCs
More than 40 in-house lawyers, including heads of legal teams, attended a four day conclave from 2 February to 5 February organized by the Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA). They included Mohit Shukla, managing director...
India in 2017
Four in-house counsel, a mediation specialist and partners at three law firms share their views on the developments that are likely to shape India’s business and legal climate in the coming year.
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In pursuit of parity
This age-old question is being answered yet again in the new Bollywood blockbuster Dangal, which tells a tale – inspired by real people and events – of sporting achievement by four girls who emerge...
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Marking excellence
A great orator, outstanding scholar and humanist par excellence
The phrases above have been used to describe the legendary Nani Palkhivala, a giant of the Indian legal profession who has left an indelible mark on...
Blazing a trail
The Indian Corporate Counsel Association pays tribute to the leading lights of India’s in-house legal community in its new book, Trailblazers, writes Vandana Chatlani
Not long ago, India’s in-house lawyers were the legal community’s forgotten children;...
E-commerce valuations: To invest or not to invest?
In recent years, India has seen startups mushroom in the e-commerce sector. Boosted by cheaper data and penetration of smartphones to more households, mobile users today have greater access to e-commerce portals. The rapid...
Flipkart’s Sharma trades GC role for farming
Rajinder Sharma resigned from Flipkart at the end of July, after serving as its general counsel for 11 months. Sharma had signed a contract to work with the company for a minimum of two...
Samara purchases Adcock’s India unit
South African pharmaceutical manufacturer Adcock Ingram has signed a share purchase agreement to sell its marketing and sales operation in India – Adcock Ingram Healthcare – to private equity firm Samara Capital Partners Fund...
Roadblocks to banking amalgamations in India
The cut-throat competition in India’s banking industry, together with the cocktail of systemic difficulties that the industry faces, present stiff challenges to stabilized and sustained growth. The issues being faced by the banking industry...
The India Diaries
India Business Law Journal indulges in a little festive fun and asks 15 foreign lawyers to reveal what they love and and don’t love about India and to recount their most memorable experiences in the country
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Globetrotting
Intrepid Indian law firms are setting up offices overseas. What are the practicalities, perks and perils of such ventures? Vandana Chatlani investigates
As Indian businesses become more global in their outlook and operations, forward-looking Indian law...
Slogans/taglines: Sure shot way to advertising success?
In today’s competitive world, companies continuously try to come up with unique advertisements to promote and create awareness of their goods and services. Advertising in India, a country with so much diversity, is particularly...
A triumph of price over quality?
How the government selects law firms for infrastructure Projects. By Vandana Chatlani
The Indian government is often described by infrastructure lawyers as a poor paymaster. In line with its lowest bidder wins (L1) policy, it tends...
Altacit Global opens in Cochin
Boutique law firm Altacit Global has celebrated its 12th anniversary with an office opening in Cochin. This is the firm’s fifth office after Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Hyderabad, marking its presence in all the...
Riding the boom
As Bangalore continues to draw in investors, how has the city’s legal market evolved to keep up with the needs of companies based there? Rebecca Abraham reports from Bangalore
Bangalore has long been recognized as India’s...
In search of synergy
As two well-known intellectual property law firms merge, Rebecca Abraham asks what clients should expect
In 2013, six lawyers who appear before Delhi High Court were designated as senior advocates, five of them in February...
Taking stock
Indian lawyers reflect on the challenges facing the legal profession.
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Brothers Shardul and Cyril Shroff, the managing partners of Amarchand Mangaldas have been engaged in mediation since November in an effort to resolve...
Comparative advertising in the UK: Do’s and don’ts
Comparative advertising is a well-known and long-standing marketing tool in the UK, as it is in India and many other countries around the world. It allows companies to compare their products with a competitor,...
Shutting up shop
Mired in a tax dispute and hamstrung by labour laws, the plight of Nokia’s plant near Chennai highlights the perils and complexities of closing a factory in India. Vandana Chatlani reports
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Bright ideas
In-house counsel from leading companies trade tips on IP protection and discuss the structures, systems and safeguards required for a successful IP strategy in India
Narendra Modi’s government vowed in September to draw up a...
Escorts’ Ramaswamy becomes ICCA president
The Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA) has appointed S Ramaswamy, the vice president and group general counsel of Escorts, as its new president. Ramaswamy takes over from former president Girish Gokhale. Ashok Sharma, ICCA’s...
Desperate measures
As high levels of corporate debt trigger a wave of divestments, Nandini Lakshman explores the challenges of selling assets in troubled times
Indian companies are on an asset shedding spree. Suzlon Energy, India’s largest wind...
A promising beginning
Providing maximum governance with minimum government may sound too good to be true
Yet as the recent Indian election has shown, a bold vision combined with the right amount of determination and drive can produce...
Is India at a tipping point?
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny ...
Powerful oratory from India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in a speech made on the eve of India’s independence, when he famously said India was...
Picking an IP lawyer
Practitioners and in-house counsel share their insights on India’s IP professionals and how to choose among them. James Burden reports
Choices over which intellectual property (IP) lawyers to engage in different jurisdictions are among the...
Hershey India faces biodiversity trial
The chief judicial magistrate for the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh (MP) has ordered five Hershey executives to attend a hearing in April following allegations that the company has violated India’s Biological Diversity Act,...
Confusing messages
India’s advertising regulations are disjointed and disparate. Companies looking to play safe may find that self-regulation is the best route to compliance. Ish Bali of Coca-Cola India explains
The legal and regulatory framework for advertising is...
Medical negligence: A landmark judgment
Awareness about patients’ rights is growing in India. This trend is clearly discernible in the recent spurt in litigation concerning the liability of medical professionals and the medical establishment. The Supreme Court judgment in...
Injecting competition
Acquiring pharmaceutical companies in India is increasingly sensitive. Rebecca Abraham gets under the skin of Mylan’s recent acquisition of Agila Specialties
On 5 December 2013, in a US$1.6 billion transaction, Mylan, a leading US-based generics...
A case for reform
Progressive and pragmatic regulations and quick regulatory action are the need of the hour, argues PM Devaiah of Everstone Capital Advisors
Buoyancy in corporate India is apparent. Attempts are being made to rejuvenate the economy by...
Deals of the Year 2013
India Business Law Journal identifies and analyses the standout deals and disputes of 2013 and reveals the lawyers who guided them. By Nandini Lakshman
The past year was one of the worst for the Indian economy...
Calling the shot
As general counsel move closer to the centre of power in Indian companies, their clout over law firms is increasing. What does this mean for the legal profession?Rebecca Abraham finds out
In 2008, in a book provocatively...
