Tag: Doing Business
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The M&A Environment in Brazil – A Guide for Indian Acquirers
[Posted by Satyajit Gupta] My learned colleague Rodrigo and I have written an article on the M&A environment in Brazil (from an Indian buyer’s perspective). It is available at http://barandbench.com/viewpoint-ma-environment-brazil-guide-indian-acquirers/ and I have also excerpted it below. Background Brazil is the world’s fifth largest country and with an estimated population of 200 million, it is…
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Update: Action Plan on Start-up India
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] [The following post is contributed by Bhushan Shah and Neha Laxman from Mansukhlal Hiralal & Company] At the Global Workshop for Start-ups in Delhi, the Government very recently announced an Action Plan to promote and provide a conducive environment for Start-ups. The primary objective of the Action Plan is to (i) ease the…
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Integrated Form for Company Incorporation
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has with effect from today prescribed a new Form INC-29 for incorporation of companies, and it integrates several requirements that were earlier required to be filed separately. The integrated form as well as an instruction kit can be accessed on MCA’s website (here). The purpose…
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Budget 2015: Ease of Doing Business
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] The Government’s focus on enhancing the ease of doing business in India is abundantly evident from the Budget. This involves not only issues of licensing and approvals, but also matters for legal reform. In this post, I argue that while the proposals in the Budget will certainly help grow industry and…
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Budget 2015: Some Preliminary Thoughts
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] The Finance Minister today announced India’s Budget 2015-2016. The Budget documents, including his speech are available here. It is significant that this Budget comes during a period of upturn in the economy after a few preceding years of perceived gloom and doom, especially from the perspective of foreign investors. Other features…
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Doing Business Report 2015: A Mixed Bag for India
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] The World Bank has released its report titled “Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency”. It has also published a country report on India for the same year. At the overall level, India does not emerge in positive light, given that its ranking has fallen to 142 (out of a total of…
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Improving the Ease of Doing Business in India
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] We have been seeking to track India’s performance in World Bank’s Doing Business rankings for the last few years (with the last one available here). India has not made much progress in recent years on the overall scores, except on a few specific parameters. This has also become a cause of…
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The Criminalization of Commercial Disputes
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] News reports indicate that the Supreme Court of India has ordered the chairman of Samsung Electronics to appear before a Ghaziabad court in relation to charges filed by a party in a contractual dispute. This is pursuant to an earlier judgment of the Supreme Court rendered on February 1, 2012 that…
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Doing Business Rankings 2014: Status Quo for India
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] The Doing Business Rankings 2014 have just been published by the World Bank and IFC. Nothing much has changed in the case of India. It has dropped three places from 131 to 134 out of a total of 189 countries. While the entire report is available here, India’s country report is…
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Damodaran Committee Report: Impact on Impulsive Law Making
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