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Keeping competitors at bay
Parties must take care not to have unreasonable or one-sided non-compete clauses in agreements, as these can be rendered ineffective by the courts, writes Kunal Mehta
It is well-settled law that a non-compete obligation in...
L&L advises sellers of Odisha stake to Adani Power
L&L Partners advised AES India and AES OPGC Holding, both subsidiaries of New York-listed AES Corporation, when the two companies signed agreements for the US$135 million sale of their 49% stake in Odisha Power...
Labour market collusion: New frontier for antitrust?
Competition concerns and harm typically arise in the context of goods and services. However, these concerns can also arise in labour markets in case of collusion among competing employers, the anti-competitive effects of mergers...
CCI gives green light to Fiat-Peugeot merger
Trilegal advised Peugeot and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (SAM) advised Fiat Chrysler Automobiles when the Competition Commission of India (CCI) gave its go-ahead on 4 June for the first merger filing of two...
Jio-Facebook deal: Competition in jeopardy?
On 23 April, the Indian market saw one of its biggest deals go off. Facebook bought a 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms for a whopping US$5.7 billion. With Jio attracting the largest FDI deal...
Slowing the free fall
Taking stock of the relief measures deployed by regulators to soften the impact of the lockdown. Gautam Kagalwala reports
With the COVID-19 outbreak, the government has been fighting on two fronts. It has introduced a...
Indian Law Firm Awards 2020
And the winners are ... Rebecca Abraham reports
Companies and law firms across India have been grappling with a global pandemic in what was already a challenging market, and are now facing an economic downturn....
Competition and COVID-19: Compliance for businesses
Competition authorities worldwide including in the UK, the US, Australia and the EU have responded swiftly to the unprecedented situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In India, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has...
Brands adopt stronger enforcement strategies
Over the past few years, with the rise in counterfeiting and trademark infringement cases, the need for and the awareness of enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) has also increased. Since the target consumer...
2019 was a significant year in competition law
2019 marks a decade of enforcement by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), following the notification in 2009 of the antitrust provisions of the Competition Act, 2002 (act). Despite challenges to its jurisdiction and...
Blue sky thinking
The competition regulator has over the years allowed companies to undertake innovative commitments to enable their mergers to go through, writes Soumya Hariharan of Trilegal.
In the past nine years, the merger regime in India...
Deals of the Year 2019
India Business Law Journal reveals the most significant deals and disputes of 2019 and the law firms that worked tirelessly to bring them to fruition
The best transactions for the past year in India came...
CCI balances need for confidentiality, disclosure
On 20 November 2019, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) introduced the CCI (General) Amendment Regulations, 2019. The amendment to the CCI (General) Regulations, 2009 (general regulations), allows for the disclosure of an informant’s...
Taking a lenient approach to leniency
Leniency programmes have been adopted by several competition authorities as the most effective tool to detect and deter cartel conduct. A study of 52 European Commission decisions adopted between 1 May 2004 and 1...
News in Brief
Co-founder starts disputes firm
Arush Khanna, the co-founder and a partner at Trinaya Legal, has started Numen Law Offices with lawyers George Thomas, Lakshmi Raman and Chaitanyaa Bhandarkar. The firm is a dispute resolution and...
Deals in Brief
Laureate sells India business
Netherlands-based Global University Systems (GUS) has acquired the education and related support services business of US-based Laureate Education in India for US$150 million. The acquisition includes a University Grants Commission-recognized university...
Blackstone takes stake in test prep company Aakash
Blackstone invested ₹13.5 billion (US$190 million) in the test preparation education company, Aakash Educational Services (AESL), picking up a 37.5% stake in the company.
“The transaction was complex and riveting,” S&R partner Mohit Gogia told...
The A-List 2019
India Business Law Journal reveals the country’s top lawyers and legal icons in 2019
ACCESS THE A-LIST 2019
The fourth annual edition of the A-List is a continuation of India Business Law Journal’s efforts to recognize...
New dawn for CCI’s investigation techniques
Dawn raids are unannounced search and seizure operations conducted by the director general (DG) of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), or investigators acting under the DG’s authority in accordance with the Competition Act,...
Dial M for merger
Significant merger activity in the telecoms sector provides a window into merger regulation and control on a global scale, writes Kalpana Tyagi
The past few years have been dynamic for the telecommunications sector worldwide. Significant...
