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Around the world, there has been a considerable increase in shareholder activism in recent years. October 2017 saw a win for shareholder activists, 40 North and White Tale, when they forced the management of Clariant AG to call off Clariant's merger with Huntsman Corporation, since they believed that the merger would expose Clariant to Hunstman's debt and volatility.

The Reserve Bank of India recently issued an updated Master Direction on Foreign Investment in India ("Master Direction") on January 20, 2025 to clarify various aspects in the regulatory framework for inbound investments.

Logistics is an extremely crucial pillar of India's economic development. The present logistics infrastructure is insufficient, ill-equipped and ill-designed to support the expected high growth rates of the economy over the next decade or so.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has, through a series of decisions over the past two and a half years, signalled that it conducts a post-mortem of Green Channel filings to verify whether they were correctly made.

The Competition Commission of India ("CCI"), on December 22, 2023, published the draft CCI (Determination of Turnover or Income) Regulations, 20231 ("Draft Regulations"), inviting public comments till January 12, 2024.

This edition of the Competition Law Newsletter covers significant developments in Indian competition law, including landmark decisions from the Supreme Court, NCLAT, and the Competition Commission of India. The newsletter examines enforcement actions against major corporations, merger approvals involving international players, and a Parliamentary Committee's recommendations for strengthening competition regulation in India.

India's legislative changes have opened doors for cross-border mergers however navigating the complexities, particularly the legal, regulatory and tax hurdles...

Shared services have proven to be a cost-effective operating model for support functions in large corporates. Traditionally, cost-conscious companies have followed an offshoring...

In a landmark judgment, in Baishakhi Bhattacharyya v. Binod Kumar (Fox & Mandal team comprising Debanjan Mandal, Managing Partner, Sandip Dasgupta, Partner, and Mahima Cholera, Senior Associate, represented the contemnor No. 1).

In the matter of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited v. Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited [Curative Petition (C) Nos. 108-109 of 2022], decided on April 10, 2024...

In case of acquisitions involving listed companies, parties often choose to complete the transaction ‘on-market', that is, on the floor of the stock exchanges, on account of tax benefits.

The structuring of consideration in a mergers and acquisitions transaction constitutes a critical element of deal architecture, particularly at the term sheet stage where commercial intent is translated into legally enforceable mechanisms.

On March 06, 2024, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs ("MCA") issued two separate notifications in relation to the following...

Facilitating the inbound merger of foreign holding company with Indian Subsidiary...

The original De Minimis Exemption was introduced in 2011 and later amended by way of a notification in 2016, exempted transactions from a notification requirement if the target enterprise ...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has, recently, approved amendments to the SEBI (Issue Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018, and has mandated that …

Venture Capital funds ("VCs") and Private Equity firms ("PEs") have undeniably played a pivotal role in the Start-up boom that has seized the Indian economy in the recent past.

M&A activity worldwide has seen a year-on-year rise due to a myriad of factors, including, relaxed regulatory scrutiny, reduced operating costs, and beneficial tax regimes.