THE INDIAN REVIEW OF CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAWS

[Divyansh Sharma is a student at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.]

Following the recent shift towards protectionism adopted by multiple countries in light of COVID-19, India has also jumped the bandwagon by seeking to regulate foreign infl...

[Prerna Raturi is a student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.]

On 12 February 2020, the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) introduced the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2020 (Bill). The Bill is a result of the recommendations made by Mr. Injeti Srinivas-headed Competi...

[Arnav Sinha is a fifth-year student at ILS Law College, Pune.]

The Government of India has recently cleared a proposal to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC) in order to add a new section-Section 10A. This proposal is currently awaiting the President’s...

[Pooja Shankar is an Associate at Trilegal.]

The telecom sector in India has been wrought with financial difficulty. This has been attributable to several issues ranging from sustaining the capital-intensive requirements of a telecom company, including periodical paymen...

[Tanishka Goswami is a student at National Law University, Delhi.]

The COVID-19 pandemic has locked down mergers and acquisitions (M&A) across the globe. For the first time since September 2004, no M&A transaction worth more than $1 billion has been announced anywhere i...

[Anirudh Agrawal is a student at NALSAR University of Law.]

The government has revised the Consolidated Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy through Press Note 3 (Press Note 3) with the primary intention of curbing hostile or opportunistic takeovers of distressed Indi...

[Ayush Mehta and Navya Bhandari are students at National Law University, Jodhpur.]

Recently, Donald Trump was heard accusing China of “spreading” the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Of late, there are sources which show that China initially hid information about the virus...

[Anshika Sharma and Khyati Mehrotra are students at ILS Law College, Pune.]

Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 (Act) was introduced by the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act 2015 (2015 Amendment) to achieve the object of establishing a sp...

[Shivek Endlaw is a student at Amity Law School, Delhi.]

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent nationwide lockdown has had a major impact on domestic businesses. Due to these unforeseeable circumstances, both - businesses which need to perform contractual obligati...

[Piyush Agrawal and Sunil Singh are students at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.]

On 23 January 2020, the single bench of Delhi High Court in Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Private Limited v. Jindal India Thermal Power Limited,[1] ruled that Section 29A(1)...

[Kritika Dobhal is a student at National Law University, Jodhpur.]

Recently, on an information filed by Treebo Hotels, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) formed a prima facie opinion of abuse of dominance against Make My Trip (MMT) and contravention of Section 3(...

[Muskan Arora is a student at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.]

The choice of a seat of arbitration and venue of hearings are quite important considerations amongst the various choices parties to arbitration agreements have to make. In fac...

[Shivani Shenoy and Yashwardhan Rajawat are students at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.]

On 17 April 2020, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry published Press Note No. 3 (Press Note), by virtue of w...

[Nikunj Baheti is a third-year student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow.]

With the outbreak of COVID-19 and considering lack of substantial funds with the government to deal with the same, there is a need for private individuals and corporate h...

[Aditya Shukla and Lakshaya Grover are students at NALSAR University of Law.]

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, by a notification dated 24 March 2020, raised the minimum amount required under Section 4 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (Co...