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The Rise of the Corporate Victim: Asian Paints and the Expansion of Appellate Rights
Asian Paints should not be the beginning of corporate criminal empire-building—it should be a prompt for cautious, principled, and restrained evolution.
Kushagra Sharma
22 hours ago6 min read
SEBI’s Jane Street Order: Unpacking HFT Manipulation and Regulatory Shortfalls
The Jane Street saga highlights the urgent and immediate need for SEBI to undertake a transition from a model that relies on reactive enforcement to a modernistic, proactive, and integrated oversight model.
Akshansh Pandey
23 hours ago6 min read
Balancing Innovation and Integrity: AI in International Arbitration and Legal Practice
The integration of AI and its sub-systems in international arbitration is inevitable, but instead of blind participation in the AI race, the stakeholders must be vigilant and even de-limit such integration in certain sensitive areas, ensuring that technology remains a tool, not a tribunal.
Kushagra Mishra
1 day ago6 min read
Examining Refusal to Deal in Indian Digital Ecosystems
The dynamism of digital ecosystems is transcending boundaries. To protect consumer and third-party interests against a refusal to deal abuse, dual penalty system under the Indian antitrust regime exists. However, to safeguard the legitimate business interests of dominant entities, the author advocates for the incorporation of defenses based on principles of necessity and proportionality similar to the DMA.
Mustafa Topiwala
1 day ago6 min read
Analyzing Behavioral Profiling And Cross-Platform Tracking From the Lens of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023
The DPDP Act marks a significant milestone toward protecting individual privacy. Still, the current practice of behavioral profiling and cross-platform tracking by digital powerhouses uplifts some important questions on the DPDP Act’s compliance with free consent and purpose limitation.
Stuti Jadaun, Garvit Garg
3 days ago7 min read
Resolving Resolution: IBBI’s Remedy for Creditor Confidence
The IBBI has realized the value of market-driven resolution which it has effectively pivoted towards. The timing of the notification of these amendments must also be appreciated. India is notoriously a slow insolvency jurisdiction, and such perceptions can seriously damage credit availability in markets.
Paras Tripathi, KS Arartik
3 days ago6 min read
Insolvency Without Assets? Rethinking India’s Pre-Pack Framework for MSMEs
The pre-pack insolvency framework was crafted with the best of intentions. It aimed to protect MSMEs from the procedural weight of CIRP while ensuring that their businesses could be salvaged quickly and quietly. But in practice, it remains a tool too complex, too exclusive, and too disconnected from how MSMEs actually function.
Amritanshu Rath
5 days ago6 min read
One Nation, Many Taxes? Reassessing OTT Regulation after the Supreme Court’s Entertainment Tax Verdict
The broad legal reasoning adopted by the court may be invoked in future disputes, raising concerns regarding a roadmap for future regulation and taxation. Applying the aspect theory here may result in jurisdictional overreach and risk upsetting the delicate federal balance enshrined in the Constitution of India.
Charvi Jain, Saloni Ghanghas
Aug 176 min read
The Significant Role of Hedge Fund Activists vis-à-vis Minorities’ Rights Protection in M&A regime
The significant influence of hedge fund activists in the M&A regime have significantly altered the corporate governance in India. While they provide mechanism for key deals to go through, they are also able to suppress minority voices in a company which can take the form of their parochial focus on short-term profit maximization.
Jayanti Dhingra
Aug 179 min read
How Sanjiv Bhasin's Front-Running Case Exposed the Cracks in SEBI’s Regulatory Safeguards
Although India has a robust legal framework to penalize front-running, such incidents remain routine. This persistence stems not just from legislative shortfalls but also from technological, structural, and institutional enforcement deficits.
Srishti Singh
Aug 176 min read
Challenging Arbitral Institution Decisions: Time for India to Draw the Line?
This article analyzes and determines whether the Indian legislation and the judiciary are prepared to address arbitral institutions and the challenges to their quasi-judicial or administrative decisions.
Shubham Singh
Aug 166 min read
Navigating Intellectual Property Risks of AI-Generated Works Through Corporate Governance
The intersection of corporate governance and AI-related intellectual property presents a complex yet evolving opportunity which demands adaptive governance frameworks.
Rishi Dev
Aug 166 min read
India’s Increasingly Practical Outlook on Grounding Abuse Contraventions in Commercial Realities
The shift to an effects-based approach under Section 4, solidified by Schott Glass and Google 2023 & 2025, aligns India with the EU's standards, ensuring only actual conduct with proven or likely competitive harm is penalized.
Akash Gulati
Aug 156 min read
Applicability of Calderbank Offers in Arbitration: Does the Winner Take it All?
Calderbank offers systematically align private incentives with public policy by encouraging speedy and economic disposal of disputes. Litigants and arbitration participants alike are well aware that a reasonable proposal once made, carries real weight: refuse it at your peril, and you may as well pay generously in costs, even if you “win” upon merits.
Sanjana Kothari
Aug 126 min read
Déjà Suit: A Quest for Finality in SEBI’s Functions
While res judicata has been firmly applied to SEBI’s quasi-judicial functions, its administrative actions remain largely untouched by the principle.
Nandita Karan Yadav
Aug 116 min read
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