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Future-proofing Family Businesses

Family businesses bolster economies, drive growth, create jobs, and shape communities. Family businesses are responsible for over 70% of global GDP and provide 60% of the world's employment...

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Spencer West

Securities And Exchange Board Of India Vide Circular Dated June 12, 2025, Has Issued Investor Charter For Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs)

Securities and Exchange Board of India vide circular dated June 12, 2025, has issued Investor Charter for Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs).

India Commercial

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Lex Favios

Private Trust In India: A Step‑By‑Step Legal Guide For Asset Protection & Estate Planning

Forming a private trust is a strategic and legally secure method of protecting assets, managing wealth, and ensuring succession planning across generations.

MC

MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

Wealth Preservation Strategies: Inheritance Tax Planning For High-Net-Worth Individuals In India

While India does not currently impose an inheritance tax or estate duty, the growing global trend toward wealth taxation, along with increasing scrutiny...

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MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

How To Revoke A Trust Deed In India: A Clear Legal Roadmap

MC

MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

Trust In India: Everything You Need To Know

India Commercial

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MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

Succession Planning Through Private Trust (Part 1): Implications Under The Indian Trusts Act, 1882

India Commercial

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S&R Associates

Succession Planning Through Trust (Video)

India Commercial

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Corporate Professionals

Private Trusts As Promoters In Listed Companies: Regulatory Challenges And The Path To Compliance

India Commercial

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Corporate Professionals

Uniform Financial Disclosure Standards Introduced For REITs And InvITs Under SEBI's Revised Framework

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Khaitan & Co LLP

SEBI Amends Framework For REITs And InvITs To Ease Preferential Issues And Follow-On Offers

KC

Khaitan & Co LLP

Navigating SEBI's Recent Amendments To The InvIT Regulations: Key Insights For Investors

India Commercial

KC

Khaitan & Co LLP

Workers' Entitlement To Bonuses: Overruling Charitable Trusts' Objections

India Commercial

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IndiaLaw LLP

SEBI Amendments On Governance Norms Notified For REITs And InvITs Dated February 14, 2023

India Commercial

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Lex Favios

GST On Medicines: Rates, HSN Code, Impacts & Calculation

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Vakilsearch

Q&A On Industry Standards On Minimum Information To Be Provided For Approval Of RPT (Video)

India Commercial

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Corporate Professionals

Oral Family Settlements & The Registration Requirement In Property Disputes

India Litigation

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Vaish Associates Advocates

US Tariff Reforms 2025 And Their Legal Implications On Indian Businesses: A Corporate Law Perspective

India International

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Khurana and Khurana

Eway Bill Limit 2025: State-Wise List & Thresholds

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Vakilsearch

Bridging The Gaps: The Need For Standardized Disclosure Norms For REITs And InvITs

Since their introduction in the Indian market, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) have emerged as dynamic investment avenues in India, attracting substantial public participation.

CP

Corporate Professionals

Understanding Private Trusts In India: Legal Framework, Benefits & Compliance Under The Indian Trusts Act, 1882

Trusts—arguably the most elegant way to say, "I don't want to own this, but I still want control over it."

India Commercial

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Dolce Vita Advisors

Taxation Of Family Trust - The New Dichotomy

Further, the Tribunal relied on certain judicial precedents9 to hold that interest in partnership firm is nothing but shares of a partnership firm.

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CMS INDUSLAW

Tribunal Examines The Taxability Of A Settlement Of Property Made To A Private Discretionary Trust

Assessee is a private discretionary trust established under the provisions of Indian Trust Act, 1882.

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Dewan P.N. Chopra & Co.

Managing Investor's Money Under 'Trust Structure' Is Not Liable For Service Tax

India Litigation

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Dhruva Advisors LLP

Significant Beneficial Owners

India Commercial

Ka

Khurana and Khurana

SEBI: Dematerialization Of Securities Of Hold Cos And SPVS Held By InvITs

India Commercial

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Argus Partners

Governance Norms Applicable To REITs And InvITs

India Commercial

SA

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

SEBI Moves To Fill In A Void With Codification Of Corporate Governance Measures For Invits And REITS

India Commercial

KC

Khaitan & Co LLP

Proposals Under The Finance Bill 2023 And Impact Of The Recent Supreme Court Decisions In Relation To Charitable Trusts

KC

Khaitan & Co LLP

Corporate & Commercial Monthly Newsletter | October 2022

India Commercial

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HSA Advocates

Steps To Incorporate NGO- India

India Commercial

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S.S. Rana & Co. Advocates

Reasonable Certainty For Distinguishing A Beneficiary For The Purpose Of Section 6 Of The Indian Trusts Act, 1882

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Dhaval Vussonji & Associates

Chronicles Of Tata-Mistry: How The Supreme Court Of India Overturned A ‘Pyrrhic Victory' Into An ‘Irenic Victory'?

India Commercial

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King, Stubb & Kasiva

Corporate & Commercial Monthly Newsletter | October 2022

On September 19, 2022, SEBI came out with a framework for Social Stock Exchanges (SSEs), which can be housed within the existing stock exchanges, thereby enabling the SSEs utilize...

India Commercial

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HSA Advocates

Steps To Incorporate NGO- India

At last the company needs to apply for a Permanent Account Number (PAN) and Tax Deduction Account Number (TAN). Once the PAN and TAN are issued the...

India Commercial

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S.S. Rana & Co. Advocates

Reasonable Certainty For Distinguishing A Beneficiary For The Purpose Of Section 6 Of The Indian Trusts Act, 1882

Whether or not the beneficiary has been described with reasonable certainty is a subjective matter will have to be judged on the basis of the facts of each case.

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Dhaval Vussonji & Associates

Chronicles Of Tata-Mistry: How The Supreme Court Of India Overturned A ‘Pyrrhic Victory' Into An ‘Irenic Victory'?

Settling the controversy in yet another notable judgment dated March 26, 2021 in Tata Consultancy Services Limited v. Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd. and others.

India Commercial

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King, Stubb & Kasiva

SEBI's Pitch To Boost The Economy: Accredited Investors

India Commercial

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King, Stubb & Kasiva

Guidelines For Filing Of Placement Memorandum - InvITs Proposed To Be Listed

SEBI vide its circular dated December 24, 2019 has issued clarifications to the Infrastructure Investment Trusts

India Commercial

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DSK Legal

SEBI Introduces New Guidelines For The Preferential Issue And Institutional Placement Of Units By INVITs

India's capital markets regulator, SEBI, has on 27 November 2019 introduced the "Guidelines for the Preferential Issue of Units and Institutional Placement of Units by a listed Infrastructure Investment Trust" ...

India Commercial

KC

Khaitan & Co LLP

Trusts in India are governed under the provisions of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (the "1882 Act").

India Commercial

AP

Atlas Law Partners

Private Client Practice: Some Recent Legal Developments

2019 has thus far been an eventful year for private clients. We have had a General Election accompanied by two Budgets, and the introduction of some important legal provisions through money ...

India Commercial

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AZB & Partners

Trusts Become Eligible To Open Units In Special Economic Zones

India Commercial

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S.S. Rana & Co. Advocates

Special Economic Zone (Amendment) Bill 2019: A Stimulant For Economic Growth

India Government

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K Singhania & Co

Trusts As AIFs In India : Legal Considerations

India Commercial

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Nishith Desai Associates

The Boardroom Battle

India Commercial

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S&A Law Offices

Debentures: Is Appointment Of A Debenture Trustee Mandatory?

India Commercial

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Fair & Just Legal Solutions LLP

SEBI On Cleaning Spree – Issues Clarifications On Takeover Exemptions, Schemes Of Arrangements

India Commercial

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Nishith Desai Associates

Update On Finance Act, 2017: A Lucky Escape For Trusts

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Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Campden Mumbai Roundtable - ‘Setting Up A Private Family Trust' (June 30, 2017) Intro (Video)

India Commercial

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Nishith Desai Associates

Campden Mumbai Roundtable - ‘Setting Up A Private Family Trust' (June 30, 2017) (Video)

India Commercial

ND

Nishith Desai Associates

Tata Shareholders' Suit: Bombay High Court Revokes Leave To Proceed In A Representative Capacity

India Commercial

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Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 (New Legislations: October 2016 - December 2016)

India Government

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Seth Dua & Associates

Acceptance of Deposits (Amendment) Rules, 2017

India Commercial

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S.S. Rana & Co. Advocates

POEM Of Mauritius Managed Trust In UK: UK Tribunal

Worldwide Commercial

ND

Nishith Desai Associates

Supreme Court Ruling On Alimony And Clarificatory Amendment To Trust Law

KC

Khaitan & Co LLP

Determinacy Of A Trust – Indian Tax Insights

SA

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

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Succession Planning Through Trust (Video)

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Corporate Professionals

Campden Mumbai Roundtable - ‘Setting Up A Private Family Trust' (June 30, 2017) Intro (Video)

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Nishith Desai Associates

Campden Mumbai Roundtable - ‘Setting Up A Private Family Trust' (June 30, 2017) (Video)

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Nishith Desai Associates

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