[Achyutha GM is a 4th year B.Sc. LL.B. (Hons.) student at the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar] It all began with an acquisition that Vodafone International Holdings B. V. (‘Vodafone’), the Dutch subsidiary of the UK-based Vodafone Group carried out in 2007. CGP Investments Limited (‘CGP’) is a special purpose vehicle based in the Cayman Islands for tax purposes that owns a...
NCLAT on the Treatment of Power Purchase Agreements in Liquidation
[Apoorva Soni is a III year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi] The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (“NCLAT”), by its decision in the matter of Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL) v. Yes Bank Ltd dated October 20, 2020, held that a company could not terminate a Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”) executed with a corporate debtor during...
Termination During Moratorium: An Alternative Perspective
[Kartik Adlakha is a 5th year B.B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the Jindal Global Law School] On 24 June 2020, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (‘NCLAT’) in the case of Tata Consultancy Services Limited v. Vishal Ghisulal Jain(‘TCS Case’)upheld the National Company Law Tribunal (‘NCLT’) Mumbai bench’s order of stay on termination of a Facilities Agreement (‘Agreement’). This was because...
Dissolution without Liquidation: A Disguised Strike-off under the IBC?
[Megha Mittal is an Associate at Vinod Kothari & Co] In a first of its kind, the National Company Law Tribunal, Bengaluru Bench (‘NCLT’), by way ofits order dated 16 November 2020 in Synew Steel Private Limited, has ordered for direct dissolution from a corporate insolvency resolution process (‘CIRP’), thereby waiving the mandatory requirement to undergo the liquidation process. The said...
Creditors with Rejected Claims: Methods to Address Inadequacies under the IBC
[Anchit Jasuja and Preksha Mehndiratta are 3rd year law students at the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’) confers the resolution professional with the duty to collate and verify all claims submitted to him by the creditors. While the resolution professional does not formally have the power to reject claims, in practice the resolution...
Google’s Antitrust Saga: Pay to Play
[Anchit Nayyar is a 4th year BBA LLB (Hons) student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune] Through its order dated 9 November 2020, the Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) has launched investigations into allegations pertaining to Google abusing the dominance of its Android Operating System (“Android OS”) and the Play Store to give an unfair competitive advantage to its UPI application Google Pay...
GST Compensation Regime: The Covid Reality
[R. Kavipriyan and Pranshu Gupta are 4th year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] The Compensation Cess Controversy In the immediate aftermath of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Union Finance Minister announced that the revenue shortfall experienced by the States would not be entirely compensated by the Centre, claiming that the said shortfall is on account of an...
Towards a Proportionate Regulatory Framework for Virtual Currencies
[Anshul Semwal is a 5th year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore] On April 6, 2018, the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’), a staunch critic of virtual currencies (‘VCs’), issued a circular banning the trade of VCs. The ban was short-lived as, two years later, the Supreme Court quashed the circular on the ground of proportionality in Internet and Mobile...
Data Protection, Privacy and the Law: Is India Ready Yet?
[Ali Waris Rao is an in-house legal counsel at Hindalco Industries Ltd., Aditya Birla Group. The views expressed are personal] The debate surrounding big data, privacy and security in India has gained considerable traction. One may ask how the legal and regulatory framework in India surrounding big data, surveillance, internet of things (IoT – Tech 5.0), cybersecurity and privacy balance...
Can Competition Law Regulate Privacy?
[Jyotsna Vilva is a 5th year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore] The question of regulation of privacy and data protection issues through competition law has gained traction in recent years. In the past, while the European Commission has considered privacy to be a parameterof non-price competition, both the European Court of Justice and the...
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