[Tishya Saran and Aayush Grover are both 5th year students of Government Law College, Mumbai] Introduction The Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) and the Central Government seem to be embroiled in a regulatory tussle. It all started when an Inter-Ministerial Committee (the “Committee”) set up by the Department of Economic Affairs, in a report published by it (the “Report”), proposed the establishment...
Data Protection – Part 2: Impact on the Financial Segment
[Manal Shah is a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at NUALS Kochi and runs the Securities Blawg. The first part of this series is available here] Financial institutions deal with sensitive information. If they suffer a data breach, there is a significant amount of data at the impending threat of criminal activities such as thefts and identity frauds. It is thus important to understand the impact of this...
Data Protection – Part 1: Introduction, Background & Critical Analysis
[Manal Shah is a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at NUALS Kochi and runs the Securities Blawg. This series seeks to address the loopholes in the Draft Data Protection Bill formulated by the Committee under the Chairmanship of Justice (Retd) B.N. Srikrishna and to analyze the impact the proposed law would have on financial institutions. In furtherance of its objectives, the first part traces the aims...
Corporate Governance and Sustainability
Professor Vikramaditya Khanna has authored the latest edition of the NSE Quarterly Briefing titled “Global Asset Managers and the Rise of Long Term Sustainable Value”. The executive summary is as follows: – The largest global asset managers (e.g., BlackRock, State Street) have stated that long term sustainable value (LTSV) is their key goal with respect to the firms in which they invest...
Reclassification of Non-Compoundable Offences under the Companies Act, 2013: Impact on Section 203
[Radhika Parthasarathy is a 4th Year B.A. LL.B. (Business Law Honours) Student at National Law University, Jodhpur] Introduction The Committee to Review Offences under the Companies Act, 2013, was set up by the Ministry of Company Affairs in July 2018 to recommend the recategorization of acts that have been, for so long, cognizable offences under the Companies Act, 2013 [the “Act”]. The Report of...
SEBI appointed administrator to recover monies for investors: Boon or bane to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016?
[Bhavin Gada is a Partner at Economic Laws Practice, Advocates and Solicitors (“ELP”), and Manendra Singh is a Senior Associate at ELP. The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the view of their firm nor do they constitute any legal opinion/ On October 3, 2018 the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) notified the SEBI (Appointment of Administrator...
Forum for Adjudicating Disputes Regarding Allotment of Shares
The issue of whether a civil court or the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has jurisdiction over disputes regarding allotment of shares in a company came up for consideration before the Delhi High Court in SAS Hospitality Pvt Ltd v Surya Constructions Pvt Ltd. In its order dated 16 October 2018, the Court found that the NCLT has exclusive jurisdiction over such a dispute. The plaintiff, SAS...
Representations & Warranties Insurance in Mergers & Acquisitions
[Ajay Krishna is a 4th-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) Student at The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi] Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions have been steadily growing in India and some of the most highly negotiated provisions in these transactions are those of indemnities in case of breach of representations and warranties. Globally there has been a rapid growth in the use...
Resolving IL&FS: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
[Manaswi Agarwal and Aayush Mitruka graduated from ILS Law College, Pune and are currently working with law firms in Mumbai and Delhi respectively. They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected]] In a previous post we had analysed the efficacy of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) as compared with the scheme of arrangements mechanism under the...
Corporate Insolvency: Boundaries of Operational Debt: Part 2
[Job Michael Mathew is a V year student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad Part 1 in the series is available here] Following from the issues set out in Part 1, I now discuss the meaning of ‘goods/services’ as used in section 5(21). While the meaning of ‘goods’ is clear and settled on account of definition in Sale of Goods Act, the meaning of ‘service’ does not enjoy the same certainty. The...
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