Tag: Disclosure Requirements
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Banking in the Grey: Missing Regulations and Inadequate Climate Disclosures by Banks in India
[Sugandha Y. is a practising advocate at the Supreme Court of India. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] Like any other corporation, banks are exposed to climate risks. These include the risk of increasing loan defaults, stranded assets, and diminishing value of collaterals. Banks in…
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From Paris to the Boardroom: Can Voluntary Corporate Climate Governance Deliver India’s NDCs?
[Raushan Tara Jaswal is an Assistant Professor and PhD Candidate, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana and Post-Doctoral Researcher, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] The highly contentious adoption of the Paris Agreement has been a…
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Climate Change Litigation Against Corporations in the Australian Context – Social, Political, and Economic Factors
[Akshaya Kamalnath is Associate Professor at ANU Law and Kate Ogg is Professor at ANU Law and an Australian Research Council Fellow. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] Climate change has become an important topic in corporate law with the discussion ranging from sustainability (the S…
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Greenwashing as Securities Fraud: Exploring Liability for Misstatements in Sustainability Reporting
[Kamal Nambiar is a 3rd year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student and Shruti Ghosh is a 2nd year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] The integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) metrics into capital markets has made sustainability credentials a meaningful driver of investment decisions across several jurisdictions, including India. As ESG investment has…
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Uncovering Significant Beneficial Owners Through Publicly Available Information
[Pammy Jaiswal is a Partner and Darshan Rao is an Executive, both at Vinod Kothari and Company] The framework for significant beneficial owner (“SBO”) identification can be traced back to the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”). Section 90 of the Companies Act, 2013 (“Act”) read with the Companies (Significant Beneficial Owners) Rules, 2018 (“SBO Rules”) translates the…
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Goldman Sachs Order: A CCI Precedent Reshaping the PE Investment Landscape
[Shriyansh Singhal is a 2nd Year B.B.A., LL.B (Hons.) Student at National Law University Odisha and Lavanya Chetwani is a 3rd Year B.B.A, LL.B (Hons.) Student at National Law University Odisha] In recent years, regulatory developments in the realm of competition law in India have increasingly focused on scrutinising of Private Equity (‘PE’) investments, particularly minority stakes. The Competition Commission…
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Advancing from Reactive to Proactive Post-Acquisition Control Surveillance with Global Insights
[Deergha Meena is a fourth year student at NALSAR University of Law] India’s framework for monitoring post-acquisition control remains largely reactive, leaving a critical gap in tracking the evolution of control after transactions close. Although the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI’s) Takeover Regulations and SEBI’s Listing and Disclosure Requirements (LODR) Regulations introduce essential disclosure measures, they do not ensure…