THE INDIAN REVIEW OF CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAWS

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

The provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC) became, in the course of operation, repugnant to provisions contained in a number of other laws. However, due to its quas...

[Vishu Surana is a student at National Law School of India University.]

An independent director (ID) is a non-executive director without any kind of interest in the company that may affect his / her independence. The role of IDs is to improve corporate credibility and g...

[Mrudula Dixit is a student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.]

In dispute resolution circles, the Supreme Court of India’s judgment in Garware Wall Ropes v. Coastal Marine Constructions and Engineering Company (Garware) is (in)famous. Although the decision to impound unsta...

[Dhiraj Yadav and Barkha Dwivedi are students at Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University.]

The Indian Parliament enacted the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) in 2016. The objective was to create a comprehensive and efficacious framework for reorganization and reso...

[Ashu Bhargav is a student at Law Centre - I, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.]

The Competition Commission of India (CCI), in an order dated 9 August 2019, found NSK Limited, Japan (NSK) and JTEKT Corporation, Japan (JTEKT) and their Indian subsidiaries viz. JSAI Li...

[Aditya Mukherjee and Arihant Agarwal are students at Jindal Global Law School.]

The concept of interlocking directorate revolves around the ability of a director to serve and be a part of the Board of Directors (Board) of multiple companies. Whilst this is not illegal...

[Sameer Hegde is an articled trainee who has worked at a Big 4 auditing firm and a reputed medium sized auditing firm, and is a student of Chartered Accountancy.]

Not a day goes by when one does not hear about the complaints of Uber and Ola drivers, among other stakehol...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI), on 8 January 2020, released a market study on e-commerce (Study) in India to fill a much need information gap in the e-commerce sector in India. Discussed in the context of a growing importance of digital commerce in the count...

[Kritika Dobhal is a student at National Law University, Jodhpur. The following article has been contributed by her with the guidance of Mr GR Bhatia (Partner, L&L Partners Law Offices).]

The e-pharmacy sector has suffered another blow with the recent order by the Drugs...

[Sumit Kumar Gupta is a student at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.]

In what appears to be a routine judgment, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) may have triggered a chain reaction engulfing the entire industry of financial service...

[Shivam Tiwari is a final year student at National Law University, Jodhpur.]

The Indian financial market has witnessed an increasing number of defaults by stockbrokers in the past few years. Recently, Delhi-based Ficus Securities Private Limited defaulted to the tune of...

[Anushka and Amogh are students at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab.]

The recently released World Bank report on the Ease of Doing Business (EODB) hints at optimism; for India is currently ranked at 63 out of 190. However, an often-overlooked statistic is...

[Varun Pandey is a student at School of Law, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies.]

The Central Government has introduced the Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Insolvency and Liquidation Proceedings of Financial Service Providers and Application to Adjudicating Authority...

[Prerna Kapur is a student at National Law University, Odisha.]

On 28 October 2019, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered the Director General (DG) to conduct an investigation against hospitality giants, Oravel Stays Private Limited (OYO), MakeMyTrip India P...

[Aastha Agarwalla and Daksh Aggarwal are students at Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.]

The ‘equitable treatment of similarly placed creditors’ is a well-established principle in insolvency laws. The legislative guide of the United Nations Commissi...