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The real question is not simply what happens to the shareholders’ agreement on the day of listing, but how an IPO-bound company should handle the rights negotiated with founders and investors throughout its journey.

The Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023 has significantly modernized and revamped the Competition Act, 2002 and has equipped the Competition Commission of India (hereinafter "CCI") to better regulate the rapidly evolving digital markets, corporate restructuring from the lens of antitrust perspective, and also to effectively detect and punish anti-competitive/abusive business conducts.

An exit clause may look complete because it specifies a date, a return and a payment formula. It may nevertheless be unworkable if, when performance falls due, the proposed exit cannot lawfully be implemented or a third-party approval halts such exit that the documents do not adequately address. The problem is not confined to any particular instrument, way of drafting or transaction structure. Unless the documents identify and allocate those constraints when the exit is negotiated, structured investments, deferred consideration, earn-outs, put and call arrangements, third-party dependent exits and consent-dependent distributions can turn a promised commercial outcome into a performance dispute.

Family succession through a trust in a listed company can silently become a tripwire that triggers an open offer obligation for the promoter family. Succession planning in a listed company cannot be done the way it is done in an unlisted one. Skipping SEBI’s prescribed exemption route for transferring promoter shares to a trust entails strict liability for penalties and an open offer obligation that only becomes more complicated over time.

In a company, no shareholder is inherently big or small; all are part owners with rights defined primarily by their shareholding.

A valuation report is an essential document that provides an estimate of a company's or an asset's worth. If you're not familiar with financial terms or the specifics of a valuation report, it can be a bit overwhelming

For many Indian businesses, the climate journey begins with a simple exercise: measuring their carbon footprint. But as India’s carbon market takes shape, knowing your emissions is only the starting point. A more important question then emerges: What do these numbers mean for business and what should we do next?

Due to the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, many supply chain contracts are in disarray. The Strait of Hormuz has been cordoned off, through which approximately 20% of global petroleum liquids transit daily, driving up war-risk premiums and energy prices.

Sometimes the most effective strategy is not to look for a new remedy, but to know the existing one better.

A consumer books a service online at a price that appears final, only to discover at checkout that an additional amount has already been added, a subscription has been selected by default, or the option to refuse has been made less visible than the option the platform prefers. The consumer may technically remain free to click “no”, but the interface has already shaped the decision. This is the basic concern behind dark patterns, which use design and choice architecture to steer, deceive or pressure users into decisions they may not otherwise have taken.

For listed companies, preparing the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) involves collecting data from multiple departments, consolidating performance indicators and ensuring that disclosures are complete, consistent and finalized within the reporting timeline. Companies must ensure that each disclosure is supported by reliable data, documented calculation methodologies and adequate records, with a clear basis for how the reported figures have been derived and validated. These requirements become particularly relevant as companies prepare for BRSR Core assessment or assurance.

The Reserve Bank of India ("RBI") released the Draft Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies – Lending to Related Parties) Directions, 2025...

The increasing use of private trusts in succession planning and promoter structuring has prompted significant regulatory scrutiny...

This article examines when a supplementary chargesheet or further report or subsequent complaint is a legitimate continuation of the investigation, and when it becomes a second attempt to improve the prosecution case.

SEBI has floated a consultation paper dated August 10, 2026, proposing two distinct sets of amendments affecting issuers of privately placed, listed non-convertible debt securities .

When Parliament reduces the punishment for an offence, a question that immediately arises is whether those already facing prosecution for that offence receive the benefit of the reduction in punishment/penal consequences.

The Finance Act, 2019 inserted sections 8A, 9A, and 9B into the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 ("ISA"), establishing a unified stamp duty framework for securities transactions.

In November 2024, Swiggy went public and raised over Rs 11,300 crore. What the market did not know until September 2024, barely six weeks before the subscription opened, was that Swiggy had already spent five months in regulatory review. The company had filed its draft offer document with SEBI in April 2024, received observations, and refined it through two updated versions, all without a single word entering the public domain. No competitor read it.