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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.

IRDAI’s Consultation Paper on Recalibrating Economics of Insurance Distribution aims to strengthen competition in insurance distribution. This article argues that some of its proposals amount to differential treatment of distributors performing the same activity. Such treatment may weaken competition on merits, reduce customer choice and run against IRDAI’s own principle of ‘same activity, same regulation’.

印度针对来自陆地邻国（“LBC”）投资的监管制度，已从一刀切、以管辖区为基础的限制，转变为以管辖区为基础、经过校准的受益所有权与控制权检验。这一变化源自《2026年系列第2号新闻公告》（PN2），并由2026年5月2日公布的《2026年外汇管理（非债务工具）（修订）规则》赋予法律效力，同时配套D

Indeed, people dealing with private placement day in and day out may reasonably wonder why some of these questions need to be asked at all. But that, perhaps, is precisely the point.

Insider trading cases are rarely proved by admission. More often, they are proved by chronology: who knew what, from when, how the information moved, and whether they traded while in possession of it.

When SpaceX listed on NASDAQ in June 2026, its underwriters Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley did not just underwrite the base offering of 555.6 million shares. They sold an additional 83.3 million shares on top of it. Within two weeks, with the stock up 19 percent on day one and the underwriters exceeded that allocation in full. Taking total proceeds to USD 85.7 billion, the largest IPO in recorded capital market history. The extra USD 10.7 billion was there because someone decided to include a green shoe option before the IPO even opened.

This positive shift showcases the interest of the investor, the need of the market, comfort, and trust amongst the parties.

The MCA Data across the last 5 financial years consistently shows that approximately 28,000 criminal prosecutions under the Companies Act, 2013 remain pending at the end...

For Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in India, the second certainty often proves more complex than the first.

The Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) market in India has experienced significant growth in the recent past, with investments reaching USD 43 billion in 2024.

An analytical overview of how SEBI’s lock-in framework operates across Mainboard and SME IPO transactions.

Past events always look less random than they were, it is called hindsight bias. Lending an attentive ear to someone's discussion of his own past can make one realise that much of what they were saying was just backfit explanations concocted ex post by their deluded mind.

SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011 is the most significant law which regulates M&As deals involving Indian Listed Companies.

In modern capital markets, information travels faster than ever—thanks to social media, online news platforms, and instant messaging.

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.

How evolving jurisprudence and shifting market dynamics are redefining what it truly means to be a ‘promoter' and to exercise ‘control' in India's corporate ecosystem.

Imagine you are a founder of a company you built from scratch. Over the years, you diluted your shareholding through successive funding rounds, stepped back from day-to-day operations, brought in a professional CEO, and reconstituted the board with independent directors.