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When Insolvency Substitutes for Real Estate Regulation
The real question is not whether homebuyers belong within the IBC. It is why insolvency law has become the institution through which failures of real estate regulation are increasingly corrected, and how long a regulator can keep failing before the statute quietly covering for it is mistaken for the solution.
Aditya Gyawali
Aug 175 min read
C Velusamy v. K Indhera: Supreme Court on the Validity of an Award Rendered Post-Expiry of Arbitral Mandate
The Supreme Court should have remanded the matter of revitalisation of the award back to the Madras High Court.
Sia Shah
Aug 166 min read
Pledged, But Locked: Rethinking IPO Lock-Ins
The March 2026 Amendments can be best understood as a refinement of lock-in regulations rather than a reform of pledge law.
Sumedha Kashyap
Aug 166 min read
The Stamp Duty Tug-Of-War: Can The Centre Override State Powers in SEZs?
When the Supreme Court settles the matter, it will have to choose between a better commercial incentive versus a fair federal principle.
Yatharth
Aug 166 min read
CIIRP and the Creditor Hierarchy Problem under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Amendment Act 2026
The IBBI has, in the deferred commencement window, a rare opportunity to get this right before a single CIIRP is filed.
Chitraksh Singh Bhati
Aug 155 min read
Clean Slate or Blank Cheque: Contingent Claims and IBC
The nil valuation of contingent claims under the IBC is operationally convenient, judicially endorsed, and now sits atop a firm statutory footing after the 2026 Amendment, but it remains unjustified in its current form.
Naman Dudhoria
Aug 156 min read
Commercial Velocity at the Cost of Procedural Balance? Rethinking Reforms Under IBC (Amendment) Act 2026
Real systemic growth occurs when fairness is not compromised to achieve commercial speed.
Kalyani Kaushik
Aug 146 min read
The Pre-Pack Paradox: How PPIRP Recreated the Inefficiencies it was Built to Fix
PPIRP’s record of sixteen admissions in four years is not a marketing problem, and the 2026 Act’s improvements do not resolve it.
Yatharth Chakravarty
Aug 97 min read
Personal Insolvency and Section 138 of NI Act: A Critical Examination of Dinesh Chand Surana
The reference in Surana presents an opportunity for the Supreme Court to reaffirm the underlying philosophy of personal insolvency law.
Md Muneeb Hussain
Aug 96 min read
The Sanctions Blind Spot: Why Contract Law Has No Answer
The Strait of Hormuz disruption raises a question that existing legal frameworks do not adequately answer: where performance is made unlawful by sanctions, can parties rely on force majeure clauses or the doctrine of frustration?
Supriya Kumari, Deependra Singh Rawat
Aug 86 min read
Responsibility Laundering: What Switzerland’s Sustainable Business Conduct Act Reveals About the Structural Blindness of India’s CSR Mandate
India’s CSR law leaves an entire dimension of corporate responsibility unaddressed. Responsibility laundering is a foreseeable product of a statute that regulates charity while ignoring conduct.
Arnav Mathur
Aug 88 min read
Standardised but Structurally Hollow: Advocating for a Principled Proportionality Framework in India’s Securities Enforcement
A credible securities regulatory regime derives its authority not from the severity of its penalties, but from their predictability, coherence, and constitutional legitimacy.
Shubhankar Palash Bora, Kushal Taparia
Aug 76 min read
Disclosing Third-Party Funding Agreements in International Arbitration: Defining the Boundaries of Transparency
Transparency in international arbitration is important for maintaining the credibility of the process but it should not be treated as unlimited access to substantial terms.
Rohaan Mukul
Aug 45 min read
When Veil Piercing Replaces Statutory Interpretation: The Unresolved Question in Alpha Corp v. GNIDA
The Supreme Court's judgment in Alpha Corp has been widely read as a homebuyer-protective ruling; that reading is accurate as far as it goes.
Kshitij Saruparia, Apeksha Kachhawaha
Aug 35 min read
From List to Test: Structuring Efficiencies Defence in Indian Combination Control
This piece argues that the EF regime in Indian merger control is invoked in the language of synergies and scale, but never subjected to a structured evidentiary threshold.
Architshri Pandey
Aug 27 min read
Section 16(2)(c) Reaches the Supreme Court: What the Apex Court Must Decide and How
As the Gujarat HC correctly holds, Section 16(2)(c) of the CGST Act 2017 is not constitutionally infirm.
Daksh Kumar Bafna
Jul 316 min read
Clean Slate or Legal Fiction? Set-Off After Ujaas Energy
The decision in Ujaas Energy highlights the inherent tension between finality and fairness in the IBC framework.
Shivam Kumar Mishra
Jul 316 min read
When Data Changes Hands: Implications of DPDPA in Business Transfer Agreements
The consent portability problem and the successor liability lacuna are not just peripheral inconsistencies; instead, they constitute structural gaps that must be corrected.
Dwaipayan Dey, Kushagra Keshav
Jul 306 min read
SEBI’s SIF: Right Product on the Wrong Shelf
SIF was introduced for investors who needed more flexibility than the retail MF without the institutional minimum of PMS. But the regulation has several structural problems.
Hardik
Jul 296 min read
FCA’s New PFLS Regime: What India Can Build That the UK Could Not
This blog examines whether a prospectus forward-looking statement regime can act as a corrective framework to India’s information asymmetry problem.
Arjun Singh
Jul 236 min read
Reversing Rainbow Papers, Revealing New Risks: The CIIRP Gap in 2026 IBC Amendment
The effectiveness of CIIRP post-Amendment will ultimately depend upon preventing disruptive pre-insolvency enforcement that frustrates restructuring efforts.
Addepalli Aaditya Hridai, Prajjwal Pandey
Jul 225 min read
A Proceeding Divided Against Itself: The Bifurcation Holding in Dineshchand Surana and the Unresolved Fate of P Mohanraj
Until the three-judge bench rules, the operative position is Surana’s bifurcation, reached by a route the statute does not actually require.
Apeksha Kachhawaha, Kshitij Saruparia
Jul 196 min read
BRICS, India and International Commercial Arbitration: Another Enforcement Problem?
Though the framework in the foreseeable future is not a replacement of institutions such as SIAC and LCIA, it is a bid to put India as a suitable arbitration avenue down the line.
Dhruv Madan, Harsh Bharadwaj
Jul 186 min read
Clarification or Reversal: What Gameskraft Means for Regulated Industries
Gameskraft does not raise the question of whether clarificatory amendments are constitutionally permissible. They are, and this article does not argue otherwise. The issue is the absence of any rigorous gatekeeping before the label is applied.
Pawni Singh, Prikshit Rathore
Jul 186 min read
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