India: Corporate and Company Law

An increasing number of Indian listed companies have begun issuing voluntary quarterly business updates on the BSE and NSE platforms, usually within the first few weeks after the close of a quarter and well in advance of the publication of formal financial results. Although no specific provision of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (“LODR Regulations”) requires such announcements.

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The Bombay High Court in its decision in Saravana Prasad vs. Endemol India Private Limited & Anr with Innovative Film Academy Pvt. Ltd. vs. Endemol Indi Private Limited & Anr., inter alia held that Section 2(62) of the Companies Act, 2013, defines a One Person Company as a company which has only one person as a member.

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Company law in India establishes the legal architecture governing the incorporation, functioning, and regulation of corporate entities. A foundational principle underpinning this framework...

The nominee shareholding arrangement is a structural constraint in a foreign owned Indian subsidiary. In a typical inbound investment scenario, a foreign parent company incorporates a wholly owned subsidiary in India. Since the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) mandates a minimum of two shareholders at the time of incorporation of a private limited company.

The Indian Supreme Court recently, in the case of Omkara Assets Reconstruction Private Limited v. Amit Chaturvedi & Ors., held that a pending Scheme of Arrangement before the High Court under the Companies Act cannot become a roadblock in the initiation of a Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently rationalised the External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) framework and notified the amendments to the existing ECB vide the Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing and Lending) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2026 (Amendment Regulations).