India: Corporate/Commercial Law

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India has traditionally been perceived as a mechanism of redistributive welfare, focused on education, healthcare, sanitation, and poverty alleviation etc. environmental protection...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") has notified the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2025 on 8 September 2025...

As per Section 2(20) of the Companies Act, 2013, a "company" refers to an entity incorporated and registered under this Act or any prior company law. The word "company" originates from the Latin com (together) and panis (bread), symbolising a collective of individuals united by a shared purpose.

The Supreme Court of India (SC) set aside the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) penalty order dated 17 December 2021 (CCI Order) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) judgment dated 13 June 2022 in Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC v Competition Commission of India & Ors.

The Shareholder Agreement imposes GAAP-compliant monthly reporting on the company. The finance team discovers its inability to comply forty-five days post-close. No party examined the information rights clause...

Business deals and commercial agreements form the foundation of corporate operations and growth. Whether it involves partnerships/joint ventures, vendor arrangements, investments, mergers, or service contracts...

India's regulatory landscape for financial record-keeping has undergone a quiet but consequential transformation over the past several years. The migration of books of accounts from physical ledgers to cloud-hosted platforms and SaaS-based enterprise resource planning systems has dramatically altered not just how financial data is stored, but where it resides and that question of where has become a matter of acute legal consequence.

In the recent case of Dr. Bais Surgical and Medical Institute Private Limited and Ors. vs. Dhananjay Pande1, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India (“Supreme Court”) ruled that formal entry in a company’s register of members is not an absolute prerequisite for seeking relief in respect of oppression and mismanagement under Sections 3972 and 3983 of the Companies Act, 1956 (“1956 Act”) (that are in pari materia with Sections 241 and 242 of the Companies Act, 2013 (“CA 2013”)).

As discussed in our previous article, the Consultation Paper addressed a structural gap in the existing aircraft leasing ecosystem in GIFT City. While aircraft leasing entities could already be established in the IFSC, aircraft ownership, primary financing, transaction structuring and related professional services could continue to remain outside the IFSC.

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (“DPIIT”), through its revised Standard Operating Procedure (“SOP”) dated 4 May 2026 for processing Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) proposals, has introduced what appears at first glance to be a procedural reform.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”), vide its circular dated April 8, 2026, has operationalised the mechanism for lock-in of pledged shares under the SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018 (“ICDR Regulations”), as part of its ease of doing business initiatives.

A down round is a funding event where a company raises fresh capital by issuing new shares at a price and a valuation that is lower than what investors paid in the preceding rounds.