In a lending landscape increasingly populated by partial assignments to asset reconstruction companies and multi-lender consent arbitrations, the discipline is likely to prove the judgment’s most durable contribution.

A moratorium construed strictly enough to protect only the named corporate debtor answers a textual question without resolving the adjudicatory and systemic ones that composite proceedings against non-debtors actually raise.

Whatever the High Court decides in March 2027, the case exposes a gap in design rather than a rogue order.

A fund running two different consent systems for two sets of investors in the same scheme was never defensible, and a 15% shareholding test was always going to miss real conflicts. SEBI is right to fix both problems. That said, three practical questions still need answers before the framework can work as intended.

SEBI’s changes are not two individual ease-of-doing-business measures. They redefine the line between an active unitholder base and a passive one, at the precise moment a REIT or InvIT switches hands.

SK Jain has not yet been overruled, and by choosing to distinguish rather than overrule it, Lombardi has left scope for pre-deposit clauses to continue in some form.

While insolvency practice in India has thus far treated data as an asset without considering whether privacy law even permits its transfer, this is particularly significant for AI companies, whose business models hinge on personal data.

The question is not whether finfluencers should be regulated; since December 2024, they are. The question is which of SEBI's two licensing regimes was chosen, and whether the protection inside it reaches the people carrying the risk.

The current code deals with the number of surviving children, but it should deal with the number of fit deliveries.

The IBC can accommodate Nidhis only if it recognises the community inside their corporate form.

The court’s resort to supply-by-supply analysis overlooks the manner in which the rights, reciprocal obligations, consideration and development activities operate together to give effect to the executed JDA.

Santosh Associate principally raises constitutional questions about the validity of pre-deposit clauses, and the answers the larger bench gives will settle a controversy that has occupied the courts for some years.

The order is worth reading not just as a status update on pending litigation, but as a case study in how doctrinal categories can obscure the actual problem a clause creates.

This article argues that the conduct-based review under the Act may not be able to reach a significant share of the market because the power is substantially structural as it is sustained by the continued exclusion of ATF from the goods and services tax.

While the amended regulations fill in the gaps of digital governance, eligibility criteria for startups, inadequate disclosures, and angel investing reform in a comprehensive way, these amendments' success will depend on reconciling 3 conflicts: the mandatory dematerialisation of the foreign entities, moral hazard created by increased eligibility criteria, and concentration of the capital pool within a thin accreditation base.

This piece explores the dichotomy between the continued strength of India’s primary market and the bearish nature of its secondary market. It briefly examines the possible reasons behind this divergence, including foreign outflow of capital, domestic liquidity, regulatory timing, and considers what this may say about the broader state of the Indian markets in 2026.

This author argues that the ruling is not merely a clarification of locus standi under Section 9, but a conceptual shift in the function of interim relief.

This piece argues that labelling alone cannot solve the deepfake problem, because synthetic content can be stripped of its provenance well before it reaches the public that needs protecting.

The ability to monetise an arbitral claim depends on the stage of the dispute. The transaction must therefore be built around the asset that actually exists at the relevant stage, after examining the underlying contract for restrictions and documenting the transfer under the TPA and, where relevant, the Code of Civil Procedure 1908.

On 18 August 2026, the Competition Commission of India notified the Competition Commission of India (Commitment) Amendment Regulations 2026. The accompanying General Statement presents the exercise as one of providing clarity and procedural certainty in response to administrative issues thrown up by two years of practice.

This two-part article evaluates the viability of, and considerations involved in, litigation funding while also conceptualising model guidelines to govern this emerging alternate asset class.

This two-part article evaluates the viability of, and considerations involved in, litigation funding while also conceptualising model guidelines to govern this emerging alternate asset class.

The Bill modernises the form of bankers’ books. Its certification architecture must also be modernised without diluting the evidentiary discipline that gives these records their legal weight.

The Draft Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill 2024, despite being pending for more than two years since its drafting, includes a provision in Section 9A for making provision for emergency arbitrators through arbitral institutions in the same way that orders can be made under Section 17(2).