The Indian government recently approved a significant amendment to the country’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) framework, specifically targeting investments in which the ultimate beneficial ownership traces back to countries sharing a land border with India (LBCs). The formal implementing notification was issued by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) in Press Note 2 (2026 Series) on March 15, 2026 (PN2), amending the extant FDI Policy.

At the same time, the dissent serves as a strong cautionary voice – reminding the judiciary that overreach risks upsetting the delicate balance between finality and fairness that arbitration seeks to achieve.

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA Act) has ushered in greater accountability and discipline across India's real estate sector, addressing long-standing issues such as project delays, lack of transparency, and developer fraud and malpractice.

The doctrine of prosecution history estoppel, a concept both subtle and significant in patent litigation, operates on the principle that a trademark owner cannot assert rights or claims that are at odds with assertions made during the trademark registration process.

With increasing competition for talent in India Inc and lateral movement of employees becoming commonplace, organizations have created several mechanisms that seek to effectively protect their proprietary knowledge, intellectual property, trade secrets, and other sensitive information ...

A concession agreement is a contractual arrangement between a private party (Concessionaire) and a Concessioning Authority (CA)

The February 2026 edition of Fox & Mandal's newsletter examines the FEMA (Guarantees) Regulations, 2026; joint insolvency proceedings; RBI's ‘high quality' infrastructure lending framework; IT Rules addressing AI and deepfakes; the restructured HVDLE framework; India's new shipbuilding schemes; and other changes in India's corporate, capital markets, infrastructure, insolvency, and banking sectors.

The initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Code) against Government-owned companies has been a contentious issue.

The April 2026 edition of Fox & Mandal's Dispute Resolution & ADR Newsletter analyses the availability of interim relief during a foreign award's enforcement proceeding; enforceability of foreign decrees despite FEMA and RBI violations; Primacy of the principal agreement in determination of the arbitral seat in a transaction involving multiple contracts; and other recent judgments of the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts.

India’s manufacturing sector is expanding rapidly, supported by policy reforms, strong domestic demand, and its growing role in global value chains. Japanese companies have played a significant role in this growth story, especially in sectors such as automobiles, electronics, chemicals, and precision engineering.

The regulatory framework governing gaming in India has long been marked by regulatory uncertainty characterised by inconsistent state legislation and evolving jurisprudence. Historically, Indian gaming jurisprudence drew a sharp distinction between games of skill and games of chance, with Courts repeatedly holding that skill-dominant games such as rummy and certain formats of poker could not be equated with gambling, thereby granting them constitutional protection under Article 19(1)(g).

A Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) is a unique legal institution recognised under Hindu personal law, arising from the joint status of a family, rather than any formal act of creation. It is ordinarily constituted of every person lineally descended from a common ancestor, together with their wives, sons, and unmarried daughters. Within this structure, a coparcener refers to a member who acquires an interest in joint family property by birth and has the right to seek partition.

The November 2024 edition of Fox & Mandal's newsletter highlights recent developments in India's corporate, insolvency, capital markets, real estate, and banking sectors. In this edition, we examine RBI's guidelines to simplify conversion of FPI to FDI, IBBI's proposals to streamline the real estate insolvency process, SEBI's proposed revisions to the corporate governance framework for HVDLEs, and other legal and regulatory changes in corporate & commercial laws and their business impact.

This Playbook presents a curated selection of recent rulings that have significantly shaped the arbitration ecosystem in India, spanning the full arbitration lifecycle from contract formation and tribunal constitution to interim measures, and post-award challenges.

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).

Section 31 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Code) provides that a resolution plan, once approved by the Adjudicating Authority, is binding on all stakeholders including the creditors and surety/guarantors of the Corporate Debtor (CD), and extinguishes all accrued liabilities of the CD except as provided under the approved plan.

The June 2026 edition of Fox & Mandal's Dispute Resolution & ADR Newsletter analyses the enforceability of foreign judgments; invocation of arbitration agreements by non-signatories; the interplay between contractual disputes and insolvency proceedings; termination and blacklisting in government contracts; and other recent judgments of the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts

Under Indian law, divorce by mutual consent allows both spouses to dissolve their marriage without any conflict. The inherent cost-efficiency of a non-contentious divorce process, in addition to the judiciary adopting...

The increasing innovation in the IT, ITeS, and software industries has outpaced the regulatory and legislative framework governing these sectors.

In commercial arbitrations, securing interim relief before the constitution of the arbitral tribunal can often be crucial, since potential delays may jeopardise asset preservation and frustrate the recovery process, thereby compromising the parties' rights.