[The following post is contributed by Soumya Hariharan, who is a Foreign Lawyer at Rodyk & Davidson LLP’s Corporate & Competition Law Practice in Singapore. Soumya obtained her BSL.LLB degree from ILS Law College and has an LL.M degree (Corporate & Financial Services Law) from the National University of Singapore. She can be reached at [email protected]. These views are...
Competition Law Risks: Non-Compete Clauses in M&A Transactions – Part 1
[The following post is contributed by Soumya Hariharan, who is a Foreign Lawyer in Rodyk & Davidson LLP’s Corporate and Competition Law Practice in Singapore. Soumya obtained her BSL.LL.B degree from ILS Law College and has an LL.M degree (Corporate & Financial Services Law) from the National University of Singapore. These views are personal. In this first part, Soumya provides a broad...
Amendments to the Combination Regulations
[The following post is contributed by Karan S. Chandhiok, who is the Managing Associate of the Competition Law Team at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices. Karan graduated from Amity Law School followed by a BCL at Oxford. He currently serves as a Member Executive of the Competition Law Bar Association. These views are personal. Karan may be contacted at [email protected] or karanchandhiok@gmail...
Ministry’s move to exempt shipping sector from the lens of Competition Act
[The following post is contributed by ACS Nidhi Ladha, who is a partner at Vinod Kothari & Co. She can be reached at [email protected]] The Competition Act 2002 [as amended by Competition (Amendment) Act, 2007] (the “Act”) supercedes the erstwhile MRTP Act and codifies a present-day competition law in India. The Act plays a twin role of making void all anti-competitive agreements...
Analyzing the Impact of CCI’s Order Against Cement Companies
[In the following post, our guest contributor Rahul Singh analyzes the impact of CCI’s order in Builders Association of India v. Cement Manufacturers Association, Case No. 29/2010. Rahul is Assistant Professor of Law, National Law School, Bangalore (on leave) & Counsel, Trilegal A summary of CCI’s order is available here] In a landmark decision, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has...
Summary of CCI’s Order Against Cement Companies
[The following post is contributed by Karan S. Chandhiok, a senior associate with the competition law team at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices and a Member Executive of the Competition Law Bar Assocation. He graduated from Amity Law School in 2006 and did his BCL from Oxford in 2007. The views are personal, and he may be contacted at [email protected] We hope to carry further comments and...
Regulatory Updates: SEBI and CCI
SEBI: Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations SEBI has issued the Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations) Regulations, 2012 that deal with the recognition, ownership and governance of stock exchanges and clearing corporations. Certain minimum ownership and net worth requirements have been specified. Maximum shareholding by a single shareholder has been...
The Concept of Control under the Indian Competition Act: an analysis (Part II)
(This is a continuation of a post contributed by Avirup Bose) In an earlier post I discussed the importance of understanding the concept of ‘control’ while analyzing the probable anti-competitive effects of a merger especially in a partial stock ownership context. The discussion was in the background of an order of the CCI dated May 17, 2012, which basically held that if a company has a...
The Concept of Control under the Indian Competition Act: an analysis (Part I)
(The following post is contributed by Avirup Bose, who holds law degrees from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and the Harvard Law School and is qualified to practice law in India and the U.S. Avirup has worked in the New York office of Weil Gotshal & Manges and in the New Delhi office of S&R Associates. He has also briefly worked at the Mumbai office of Trilegal...
Convertible Instruments and “Control” Under the Competition Act
Earlier this week, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) passed an order involving a transaction between the Reliance Industries group and the TV18 group of companies. What otherwise appears to be a complex transaction can be described in a nutshell as follows. About 40% shares of Network18 and (indirectly) TV18, both of which are listed companies, are held by Mr. Raghav Bahl and his...
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