Commentary on legal and regulatory developments relevant to the firm's practice areas. General information only; nothing here constitutes legal advice.
Arbitration & Dispute Resolution ·
A dispute resolution clause is not boilerplate. It is the only part of a commercial contract that operates after the relationship has broken down, and the choices made in it…
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A founders' agreement records the terms between the people starting a business — equity split, roles, vesting, intellectual property and what happens if one of them leaves. A shareholders' agreement…
Read more →Private Clients & Family Wealth ·
A Will distributes assets after death. A carefully structured private family trust can, in appropriate circumstances, provide an additional framework for ownership, management and continuity during a person's lifetime and…
Read more →Intellectual Property ·
In short: Intellectual property law in India is governed by separate statutes for each category of right — the Patents Act, 1970; the Trade Marks Act, 1999; the Copyright Act,…
Read more →International Practice ·
Every cross-border transaction — a licensing deal between a software company in Austin and a distributor in Riyadh, a supply agreement between a device manufacturer in Frankfurt and a component…
Read more →Corporate & Insolvency ·
The National Company Law Tribunal was constituted under Section 408 of the Companies Act, 2013, with effect from 1 June 2016, as a specialised forum exercising the powers conferred on…
Read more →Private Clients ·
Family legal matters in India fall into two broad groups that often overlap. The first concerns relationships — marriage, separation, and the maintenance or alimony that may follow. The second…
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Contract law in India is governed principally by the Indian Contract Act, 1872, which sets out when an agreement becomes an enforceable contract, how obligations are performed and discharged, and…
Read more →Regulatory ·
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 governs the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution by persons carrying on a definite cultural, economic, educational, religious or social programme, and is administered…
Read more →International Practice ·
Immigration and cross-border practices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania face a structural problem: workload arrives in concentrated seasonal peaks tied…
Read more →Banking & Recovery ·
The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 permits a secured creditor to enforce its security interest without the intervention of a court or…
Read more →Insolvency & Restructuring ·
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 consolidated India's fragmented insolvency laws into a single, time-bound framework administered by the National Company Law Tribunal as Adjudicating Authority, with the Insolvency and…
Read more →Technology & Data ·
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Rules were notified in November 2025, converting the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 from a passed statute into an operative compliance regime with a…
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Legal process outsourcing to India has moved from a cost experiment to a structural feature of how law firms and in-house legal departments in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada…
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