[The following guest post is contributed by Mani Gupta, who is a partner at Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors, New Delhi. Views expressed here are personal and do not reflect the firm’s views.] By way of two notifications dated November 25, 2016 (“Repeal Notification”), the Ministry of Finance has appointed December 1, 2016 as the date on which the provisions of Sick Industrial Companies...
Essay Competition on Arbitration Law
[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the Nani Palkhivala Arbitration Centre, Chennai] Satya Hegde Essay Competition 2016-2017: Submit by Dec 26 Nani Palkhivala Arbitration Centre, Chennai (NPAC) is pleased to announce an essay competition on arbitration law, inviting essays from current students of Law in any College or University in India. ...
The Hubtown Case: Supreme Court on the FDI Policy
[The following guest post is contributed by Tanavi Mohanty, who is a corporate lawyer practising in Mumbai] The decision of the Bombay High Court in the summary suit of IDBI Trusteeship Services Limited (ITSL) v. Hubtown Limited (Hubtown), better known as the Hubtown case has received a lot of attention for being the Bombay High Court’s pioneering judgment which unearthed a colourable structure...
Foreign Portfolio Investments in Unlisted Non-Convertible Debentures
[The following post is contributed by Amitabh Robin Singh, who is a corporate lawyer practising in Mumbai.] Last month, the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI“) allowed Foreign Portfolio Investors (“FPIs“) to invest in unlisted non-convertible debentures (“NCDs“). This has been done by way of an amendment to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of...
Regulation of invoice discounting start-ups: Is RBI proposing a disproportionate regulation?
[The following guest post is contributed by Srinivas Medisetty, who is presently working as a legal counsel in Ola (ANI Technologies Private Limited) advising on the regulatory and litigation aspects of the company. Views expressed are personal.] The Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) as the capital market regulator rightly stepped in to regulate crowd funding through investment in...
Empirical Analysis of CSR Requirements in India
Professors Dhammika Dharmapala and Vikramaditya Khanna have posted an interesting paper on SSRN that is titled “The Impact of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India’s Companies Act of 2013”, the abstract of which is as follows: Firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity has become the subject of a large literature in recent years. This paper analyzes CSR activity...
Demonetization and the Income Tax Act
[The following guest post is contributed by Kailash Nath P S S, who is a lawyer and a chartered accountant, and is currently associated with Wadia Ghandy & Co., Mumbai. Views expressed here are personal and do not reflect the firm’s views.] Introduction The recent move of the Central Government exercising its powers u/s 26(2) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (“RBI Act”), to withdraw the...
Tata Group Companies: “Long-Term Interests” the Key Touchstone
The episode surrounding the Tata Group has taken further twists and turns. After several Tata Group companies expressed their support in favour of Mr. Mistry, who continues to be chairman of several of those companies, one company – Tata Global Beverages – adopted a different stance. In a board meeting held this week, the directors of Tata Global Beverages decided by a 7:3 majority to replace Mr...
Further Analysis on Compensation Agreements
[The following guest post is contributed by Rohit Sharma, who is a Research Associate at Vinod Kothari & Co. Two earlier posts on this topic are available here and here.] Introduction The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) drew attention to the issue of compensation arrangements that take place between the private equity investors (PE) and the promoters, directors and key...
10th Annual NLSIR Symposium on Regulating E-Commerce in India
[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the National Law School of India Review] The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR), the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is pleased to announce the 10th Annual NLSIR Symposium on Regulating E-Commerce in India scheduled to be held on 26-27 November, 2016 at the...
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