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Asset-light structures may be commercially efficient, but they are legally fragile. With no minimum asset requirement under the Companies Act, 2013, companies across sectors increasingly operate...

The Government of India has recently notified Companies Act, 2013, which replaces the erstwhile Companies Act, 1956.

SEBI, in December, notified several important amendments to its SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading Regulations), 2015 ("PIT Regulations").

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has brought in a slew of amendments to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue and Listing of Non-Convertible Securities) Regulations, 2021 (NCS Regulations).

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has, vide its notification dated 14 June 2023, amended the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (Listing Regulations).

The concept of ‘Sweat Equity' was initially employed in the United States by Co-operatives for real estate projects. In the mid-20th century, the American Friends Service Committee...

India's fiscal year 2022 alone has witnessed nearly two dozen high profile cases of embezzlement, misappropriation of funds, insider trading, falsification of accounts and other instances of corporate fraud.

Thomas J. Rueter, a United States Magistrate Judge has rekindled the debate on online data privacy by allowing sharing of electronic data stored in servers of U.S. companies located outside the United States with the U.S. Government.

The Supreme Court in its recent decision in Kaushal Kishor v. The State of Uttar Pradesh , while relying upon the transformative jurisprudence relating to the interpretation of Articles 19 and 21...

A Board meeting needs to be convened in accordance with the Companies Act, 2013 ("Act") and the secretarial standards prescribed thereunder.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued Circular SEBI/HO/ISD/ISD-POD-2/P/CIR/2025/55, dated April 21, 2025, significantly expanding the scope of automated Trading Window Closure...

The High Court of Delhi, in its judgment dated December 15, 2022 in the matter of Brilltech Engineers Private Limited v. Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Private Limited [Arb. P. 790 / 2020], has held that invocation of proceedings under ...

The Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India ("IRDAI") has, by way of a circular dated 18 May, 2016 issued revised Guidelines for Corporate Governance for insurers in India ("CG Guidelines").

For several years, the SME platforms of India's stock exchanges offered something unusual, i.e., a route to listing that was faster and lighter than the main board, and that often allowed early investors and promoters to sell a meaningful part of their holdings at the same time as the company raised capital. That combination is precisely what the Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") set out to change.

Directors occupy one of the most important positions within a company. They are entrusted with managing corporate affairs, safeguarding stakeholder interests and ensuring legal compliance.

The Division Bench of Supreme Court while hearing an appeal against the order of NCLAT in the matter of Vijay Kumar Jain versus Standard Chartered Bank & Ors., Civil Appeal NO.8430 OF 2018 allowed the appeal ...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), in the year 1999, had framed "Securities and Exchange Board of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase Scheme) Guidelines, 1999"...

Independent directors are expected to treat whistleblower mechanisms as governance infrastructure, not reporting hygiene. A well-functioning audit committee is meant to see whistleblower data...