To ensure the fair and just application of the GoC doctrine, clear guidance is required.

The use of a purely managerial doctrine, primarily developed for corporate governance and trade purposes, on arbitration is problematic.

This article intends to analyze how the reasoning that the doctrine operates independent of corporate law is at best evasive.

The status of the 'group of companies' doctrine in Indian arbitral jurisprudence has been finally settled by the Supreme Court.

The article examines the jurisprudence around group-of-companies doctrine and analyses its transplantation into India.