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Corporate demergers with subsequent listings offer Indian companies significant strategic and tax advantages but require meticulous advance planning.

Copyright law has always been reshaped by copying technology, from the printing press to the photocopier and the video recorder. The digital network changed the problem in kind rather than in degree: a digital copy is identical to the original, costs almost nothing to make and can travel across the world in seconds.

Commercial teams often believe the "real negotiation" is about pricing, payment schedules, deliverables, service levels, or termination rights. But anyone who has worked on contracts for long enough knows that the real negotiations usually begin once the discussion reaches indemnity.

Corporate finance has historically treated equity issuance as a cash-based capital-raising exercise.

India's regulatory landscape for financial record-keeping has undergone a quiet but consequential transformation over the past several years. The migration of books of accounts from physical ledgers to cloud-hosted platforms and SaaS-based enterprise resource planning systems has dramatically altered not just how financial data is stored, but where it resides and that question of where has become a matter of acute legal consequence.

Over the life of a company, small amounts quietly accumulate dividends that are never encased, old deposits that are not claimed, shares that sit in forgotten folios. Indian law does not allow these sums to remain with companies indefinitely. Instead, they must eventually move into a central pool called the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF), managed by a government authority.

At the outset of a transaction with investors, the company's future trajectory is consciously contemplated. During negotiations, the parties envisage potential exit scenarios and their impact on shareholder returns.

In private M&A transactions, net working capital (NWC) operates as a negotiated pricing and risk allocation tool rather than a mere accounting label.

In 2008, Daiichi Sankyo paid USD 4.6 billion for control of Ranbaxy. Five years later, Ranbaxy's US subsidiary pleaded guilty to seven federal felony counts and paid USD 500 million; a decade later, Daiichi was still in the Indian courts enforcing an arbitral award against the sellers.

For decades, India operated under an archaic and overly complex web of labour laws making compliance unpredictable and business growth unnecessarily constrained

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs ("MCA") has introduced a transformative regulatory requirement mandating the dematerialisation of securities for private limited companies, marking a clear departure from long-established corporate practices.

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.

Employee stock options are designed to attract, incentivise, and retain talent. That is how they are presented to the board and described in offer letters. But the moment a company enters an M&A transaction, an arrangement built by the HR function becomes a term the deal lawyers have to price, and it is very often the last term anyone looks at.

The implementation of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (“OSH Code”) has significantly changed the labour-compliance landscape in Maharashtra (hereinafter referred to as the “State”). However, it should not be treated as a blanket replacement of the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017 (“Maharashtra Shops Act”).

India's digital and AI regulatory framework has entered a decisive new phase. On 10 February 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026, introducing a comprehensive regulatory framework specifically addressing Synthetically Generated Information (“SGI”). These amendments, which took effect on 20 February 2026, mark India's response to the proliferation of deepfakes, AI-generated content, and other forms of synthetic media that can deceive users and cause significant harm.

This article examines the regulatory framework governing the acceptance of deposits under the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 2014. It outlines the avenues available to companies for raising funds through the deposit route and highlights key exclusions within the statutory definition of "deposit".

Alternative investment funds (“AIFs”) are privately pooled investment vehicles which raise funds and invest in accordance with a defined investment policy for the benefit of the investors. AIFs established and operating within India (except in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (“GIFT City”)) are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) under the SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds) Regulations, 2012, as amended (“AIF Regulations”), which allow AIFs to be structured as a trust, a limited liability partnership (“LLP”), a company, or a body corporate.

The amendment marks an important shift in India’s restructuring landscape by enabling a wider class of companies to undertake mergers through the Regional Director (“RD”) route, without having to undergo the more elaborate National Company Law Tribunal (“NCLT”) process under Sections 230–232 of the Companies Act.