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Eligibility Criteria for Insolvency Resolution Professionals: A Critique
[Guest post by Lavanya Chawla, Batch of 2017, National Law School of India University, Bangalore] With more than 270 days gone by since the enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (the Code), the time is ripe to analyse whether the Code has proved to be the magical wand it proclaimed to be. One…
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Liability of Personal Guarantors of a Corporate Debtor during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process
[Guest post by Param Pandya, Research Fellow, Corporate Law and Financial Law, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi. The views expressed by the author are personal.] On September 6, 2017, the Allahabad High Court in the case of Sanjeev Shriya vs. State Bank of India (“Sanjeev Case”) decided the question of the liability of…
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Restrictive Remedy under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act
[Guest post by Richa Saraf, Assistant Legal Advisor, Vinod Kothari & Co.] In a recent ruling of the Calcutta High Court in Union Bank of India & Anr. v. State of West Bengal & Ors. (September 1, 2017), the object and intention behind section 14 of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement…
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International Business Law Essay Competition
[Announcement posted on behalf of Verus, a law firm] Verus presents the Inaugural Edition of the REEMA RAY PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW 2017. The prize is instituted in memory of Reema Ray (1982-2013), who was a brilliant young corporate lawyer in one of the leading law firms in India. Her friends, family and colleagues…
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SEBI Refrains from Resolving Ambiguity on Permissible Investor Protection Rights
[The following post is contributed by Supreme Waskar, who is a corporate lawyer in Mumbai. An earlier post on this topic is available here.] The existing definition of control under regulation 2(1)(e) of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011 (the “Takeover Regulations”), defines “control” in inclusive manner as a right to (a) appoint…
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“Control” Untouched in the Takeover Regulations: A Case of Regulatory Inertia
Let’s just say, it is not at all surprising. After carrying out an extensive consultation that lasted more than a year with a view to defining the concept of “control” under the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011 (the “Takeover Regulations”), the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) has come around a whole…
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Interim Orders of an Arbitral Tribunal: Contempt, Execution and Beyond
[Guest Post by Swastika Chakravarti, a 5th year law student at National Law University Odisha] The Indian judiciary created a unique mechanism for the enforcement of interim orders passed by an arbitral tribunal by holding that a party that does not comply with such orders can be held liable for contempt of court. The Supreme…
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Implied Exclusion or Express Exclusion of Section 9 (Interim measures): Post Amendment of Section 2(2)
[Guest post by RV Prabhat, who is a practising advocate before the Delhi High Court. He can be contacted at rvprabhat9@gmail.com] The question of applicability of the provisions of Part I of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 (hereinafter referred as 1996 Act) to the Foreign Seated Arbitrations has time and again come up before…
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Conflicts and Gaps in Regulatory Aspects of Schemes of Arrangement
[Guest post by Purvi Khanna, a 4th year student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.] The Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ recent notifications formalise an overhaul in the procedure for Schemes of Arrangements (“SoA”). . This post attempts to shed light on certain commercial aspects, and the inconsistencies and overlaps in the provisions of the Companies…
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Supreme Court’s Stay Order in the Jaypee Insolvency Case
It was only last week that the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (the “Code”) and the insolvency proceedings initiated thereunder received a fillip from the Supreme Court in Innoventive Industries Limited v. ICICI Bank (discussed here). Within a matter of a few days, a contrary result emerged from the Supreme Court in Chitra Sharma v.…
