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Ask most finance teams what the legal function costs and they can answer quickly: salaries, outside counsel spend, technology. Ask what it costs the business when that function runs out of capacity, and the answer is usually silence.

What is less plain, and far more worth examining, is where these delays originate, why they persist across transactions, sectors, and company sizes with such regularity, and how they can be systematically addressed.

Imagine you founded a company. You built the business, put in the capital, took the risks and created the brand. Over time you brought in professional managers, appointed an independent Board and gave management real autonomy. Then one day you discover that the people running the company no longer share your view of its strategic direction or, more pointedly, of who should lead it.

Every term sheet that graduates to a signed Shareholders’ Agreement (SHA) arrives loaded with investor protections. They look formidable on paper. They are fought over by lawyers on both sides. And in India, a surprising number of them prove difficult to enforce in practice once a dispute with a founder escalates...

Decisions for acquisitions, borrowings, associated party dealings and appointments are sometimes subject to ex post facto examination by shareholders, regulators, auditors, tribunals, or courts. Minutes of the Board meeting then work as one of the primary contemporaneous documents through which the history of the decision is pieced together.

Securities and Exchange Board of India's ("SEBI") "accredited investor" framework in the Alternative Investment Funds ("AIF") space is built around...

In the company the Memorandum of Association sets the rules related to the company which the provide the scope of the activities of the company. It has the rights, privileges and power of the company.

Given that your company needs/wants to acquire or generate renewable energy ("RE") – should, and can, you enter into a ‘virtual' power purchase agreement ("PPA," and such ‘virtual' PPAs, "VPPAs") in India?

In an attempt to impede the spread of Covid-19 virus, the nation is under a mandatory 21-day lockdown since 25th March 2020.

Our first virtual hello (‘our' meaning you, the reader of this insight, and I, the author) is attributable to the fact that nearly a decade ago, the startup culture we know today was in its infancy—it was quite literally...

Incorporating a company is only the beginning of a business journey. Once a company is registered, it must comply with a range of statutory obligations throughout its existence.

The 18th BRICS Summit held on 12 and 13 September 2026 in New Delhi, India, culminated in the adoption of the Declaration. The Declaration serves as a comprehensive policy document outlining the direction and scope of the future ESG-related regulation and corporate practices across the BRICS countries. It reflects the commitment of the expanded BRICS grouping to advancing sustainability objectives within their respective economies and financial systems.

As world leaders converged upon New Delhi for the latest G20 summit, they brought with them not just their nations' hopes and aspirations...

This article outlines the differences between the Indian regulatory environment in the AI driven markets as opposed to digital markets in two separate sections.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has initiated a decisive restructuring of investor-treatment norms within the Alternative Investment Fund framework, culminating most recently in the release of its November 2025 Draft Circular.

The enforcement of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the operationalisation of the DPDP Rules, 2025 mark a defining moment for corporate governance in India.

It is indispensable to appreciate the significance of intra-regional trade as it has a positive impact on the other countries, which form the inter-regional trade.

India's Global Capability Centre (GCC) story has changed a great deal in recent years. What began as a way to move routine back-office and support work to India has grown into something far more strategic. GCCs today work on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, engineering, product development, research and development, finance and analytics and increasingly sit at the heart of their parent companies' global operations.