Blog Posts
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Unvested SARs in the IPO Pipeline: A Regulatory Blind Spot in SEBI’s 2025 ICDR Amendments
[Kinjal Ahuja and Ashish Rawat are 3rd year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) students at Chanakya National Law University, Patna] In March 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced a significant reform to its Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements (ICDR) Regulations, 2018. The amendment is widely hailed by the startup and tech ecosystem as it enables the companies to retain…
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The Delta Delusion: A Critique of SEBI’s Surveillance Overhaul in the Derivatives Market
[Abhishek Sanjay is a third-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] The Indian equity derivatives market has evolved into a complex, high-velocity ecosystem defined as much by algorithmic precision as by speculative depth. In recent years, expiry-day volumes have surged, open interest has ballooned, and sophisticated option strategies have proliferated at scale.…
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Reshaping Insolvency Practice: The Fourth Amendment to CIRP Regulations
[Bhoomi Goenka and Saksham Gupta are 3rd year B.B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) students at National Law University Odisha] In May 2025, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) introduced the fourth amendment to the IBBI (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016 (CIRP Regulations), with the objective of enhancing flexibility, transparency, and efficiency in corporate insolvency resolutions. Notably, the amended regulations grant resolution…
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Supreme Court’s M3M Ruling: Equivalent‑Value Substitution at the Provisional Attachment Stage under PMLA
[Shailee Basu is a lawyer based in Delhi and Research Fellow with the Crime & Punishment team at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy] Recently, the Supreme Court of India permitted M3M India Pvt. Ltd, a real estate company, to substitute its land worth ₹317 crore provisionally attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under section 5 of the Prevention…
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Down Selling of NCDs through OBPPs: Private Placement to Public Risk
[Ashutosh Chandra is an associate at Veritas Legal, Mumbai and Shriyansh Singhal is a 3rd year B.B.A LL.B. (Hons.) Student at National Law University Odisha] The debt capital market in India has recently witnessed an unprecedented surge in terms of participation from retail investors, thanks to the Securities Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) bringing in regulations and relaxed norms…
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Deadline or Dead End? Judiciary Tightens the Screws on IBC’s Compliance
[Abhishek Pandey and Aditya Mittal are 4th year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur] In the corporate insolvency regime, time is everything. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Code) was introduced in 2016 with a vision to reshape India’s insolvency regime by focusing on swift, time-bound processes that maximize the interests of all stakeholders. While after…
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SEBI’s Draft Mutual Fund Circular: Navigating Diversification and Investor Protection
[Rudraksh Sharma and Ayush Raj are 4th year students of the B.S.W. LL.B. and B.A. LL.B. programmes, respectively, at Gujarat National Law University.] India’s mutual fund industry has grown enormously, now exceeding ₹55 lakh crore in assets, prompting Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to propose an updated categorization framework. On July 18 2025, SEBI released a consultation paper titled “Categorization and…
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The Hyatt Judgment and the New PE Paradigm: Form vs. Function in Indian Tax Law
[Shravan Anande is a fourth-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student and Hari Priya Murarikar is a third-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student, both at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] In a significant judgment with wide-ranging implications for international taxation, the Supreme Court of India in Hyatt International (Southwest Asia) Ltd. v. Additional Director of Income Tax has affirmed the existence of a permanent establishment (PE)…
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ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Implications for Private Actors
[Umakanth Varottil is a Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore] On 23 July 2025 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its landmark advisory opinion on the “Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change”. Despite its non-binding nature, the advisory opinion carries considerable weight under international law that States would have to…
