India: Compliance

The overlap between Central and State labour laws could be a source of complexity for employers in India. The constitutional principles suggest that central legislation ordinarily prevails over State laws on matters in the concurrent list. This issue came into focus pursuant to notification of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (“OSH Code”).

India's insolvency framework faces unique challenges when applied to real estate projects, where thousands of homebuyers await completion rather than monetary recovery. A specialized committee has now proposed transformative reforms that shift the focus from entity-level proceedings to project-based resolution, introducing mandatory RERA integration, ring-fenced funding, and completion-first principles that could fundamentally reshape how distressed real estate developments are rescued.

Group governance is the framework of policies, processes, controls and reporting lines through which a parent company exercises oversight, sets standards and aligns the conduct of its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates with the strategy, values and risk appetite of the group as a whole. It moves the unit of governance from the standalone company to the corporate group.

Global businesses are increasingly looking towards India as a strategic destination for growth, investment and long term expansion. In recent years, Global Business Expansion in India has gained significant momentum...

Building a successful business involves more than a strong idea or initial funding. One of the most decisive yet often overlooked factors is early business structuring.

The decision frames the inquiry under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act as a threshold assessment of commercial urgency from the plaintiff's standpoint, while preserving safeguards against tactical avoidance of mediation.

Between January and April 2026, the Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") pushed through a dense cluster of circulars and regulatory amendments – touching everything from merchant banker registration to the way retail investors receive an abridged prospectus. Some of these changes were long overdue; others were triggered by market stress. All of them, taken together, amount to a fairly significant recalibration of how India's capital markets participants will need to conduct themselves going forwa

Securities and Exchange Board of India (‘SEBI’) has notified the SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations, 2026 by way of Notification No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2026/299...

India's External Commercial Borrowing regulations have undergone significant amendments effective February 16, 2026, introducing substantial changes to pricing caps, end-use restrictions, and borrowing limits.