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IBLJ Deals of the year 2023

Deals of the Year 2023

India Business Law Journal reveals 50 standout deals and disputes of 2023, and the law firms that successfully concluded them The year 2023 will be remembered for its several notable highs for corporate India –...
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Securing the rights of dissenting financial creditors

By Nishtha Arora and Srishti Bansal, SNG & Partners
In the recent case of DBS Bank Limited Singapore v Ruchi Soya Industries Limited and Anr, the Supreme Court held that in the insolvency proceedings of a corporate debtor, the dissenting financial creditors were...
ACIL Limited Insolvency Case

Reasoning at the heart of decision

The Supreme Court recently held, in Ramkrishna Forgings Limited v Ravindra Loonkar, Resolution Professional of ACIL Limited and Anr, that when the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) invoked section 31(2) of the Insolvency and...

Fresh directions

National Company Law Tribunal Mumbai counsel Mansi Kaku explores crucial changes that the insolvency board seeks to better align the corporate insolvency resolution process and overcome significant challenges It is often said that, in...

Making room for confessions

The inclusion of the settlement and commitment regulations in the amended competition law is set to boost the credibility of India’s antitrust commission and promote fair play in the market. But stakeholders see room...
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The clouds of Rainbow Papers roll away

By Karthik Somasundram, Bharucha & Partners
The Supreme Court’s judgment in State Tax Officer v Rainbow Papers Limited was widely criticised for disregarding the waterfall mechanism of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). This prioritises the claims of workmen, secured creditors,...
Dissenting arbitrator's opinion

Dissent is not award

The Supreme Court, in Hindustan Construction Company Limited v National Highways Authority of India, held that the dissenting opinion of an arbitrator cannot be treated as an award if the majority award is set...
IBC over Electricity Act

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code prevails over Electricity Act

By Mani Gupta and Aman Choudhary, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
The Supreme Court (SC) recently held that the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), override those of the Electricity Act, 2003 (act), so far as they relate to the recovery of...
Legal amendments face fairness test

High court rules amendments face twin test

A dispute over car parks has led to a high court ruling that any documents added to civil proceedings must meet a twin test of fairness under amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure. The...
Competition law amendment

Law is keeping up with the competition

By Modhulika Bose, P&A Law Offices
During the past few months, a number of important legislative and institutional changes have taken place in the competition law regulatory framework. The Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023 (amendment act), was passed into law in April,...
Law stands above commercial wisdom

Law stands above commercial wisdom

The Supreme Court’s 3 May judgment, in MK Rajagopalan v Dr Periasamy Palani Gounder & Anr, shows insolvency resolution plans must be approved by a committee of creditors before being put to an adjudicating authority. The...
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Supreme Court allows Ezeego, Yatra to settle insolvency dispute

The Supreme Court on 2 May allowed Ezeego One Travel and Tours to withdraw its insolvency dispute against Yatra Online following a settlement where Yatra would pay Ezeego INR16 million (USD194,000). Earlier in March 2023,...
Best Top Indian Law Firms 2023

Indian Law Firm Awards 2023

Recognising and rewarding exceptional legal work. Katherine Abraham reports India’s legal industry is experiencing a surge in activity, driven by increased deal-flow and record-breaking IPOs. While the most recognised law firms continue to dominate on...
Competition Commission of India

CCI in paralysis

Government indecision on a major appointment to India's antitrust watchdog has left it in a regulatory limbo, unable to properly enforce or protect, Freny Patel reports. The government’s failure to fill the empty chairman’s seat...

Deals of the year 2022

India Business Law Journal reveals the standout deals and disputes of 2022 and the law firms that showed their worth in successfully concluding them Despite concerns of a resurgence in covid-19 cases at the beginning...
NCLAT on tyre cartelisation case

NCLAT delivers landmark ruling in tyre cartelisation case

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) delivered a landmark judgment in a cartelisation case where it ordered the CCI to review fines imposed on five domestic tyre manufacturing companies and the Automotive Tyre...

Kochhar & Co hires two corporate partners in Chennai

Christopher Manoharan and Ramasamy Santhanakrishnan have joined Kochhar & Co at its Chennai office as senior partner and partner, respectively. Manoharan specialises in corporate commercial transactions, venture capital and private equity transactions, joint ventures, trademark...
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IBC valuations may spike with proceeds of avoidable transactions

By Karthik Somasundram and Khyati Mehrotra, Bharucha & Partners
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) data shows that, as of September 2022, creditors had realised INR2.43 trillion (USD29.97 billion) of the INR7.19 trillion claimed through the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) under...
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Enforcing integrity

As the insolvency and bankruptcy board turns up the heat on insolvency practitioners, Karuna Sharma and Atul Malhotra examine the tools of inspection and investigation at their disposal to ensure compliance with the code T...

No automatic right to wages during insolvency resolution

By Aditya Vikram Dua and Parvathi Menon, SNG & Partners
There has been considerable discussion over whether salaries to employees should be treated as costs in the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP). If they are so regarded, those wages will assume priority over other...
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Speed important in IBC but fairness more so

By Sneha Jaisingh and Amogh Joshi, Bharucha & Partners
Recently, in Rathi Graphics Technologies Limited v Rajkumar Rathi & Ors, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), relying on Supreme Court decisions and the report of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee, held that committees...
India's Competition Amendment Bill 2022

Black & white

While the decision to update the competition act is commendable there are significant negatives, including the potential abuse of power, that lawyers say make the pending bill’s success anything but clear. Freny Patel reports India’s...
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Solving the problem of interest and insolvency

The component of interest has played a significant role in the admission of a company into insolvency where the required monetary threshold is partially unmet. The question that arises in these situations is whether...
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Supreme Court says financial creditors not so supreme

By Sudeshna Guha Roy and Elisha Vaswani, Bharucha & Partners
In the recent case of Vidarbha Industries Power Limited v Axis Bank Limited, the Supreme Court held that the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), as the adjudicating authority, has discretion to admit or reject...
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New electricity bill likely to spark controversy

By Abhishek Tripathi and Shivika Agarwal, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
The government has introduced the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022 (new bill) to amend the Electricity Act, 2003 (act). A similar attempt in 2020 (2020 bill) was shelved following the farmers’ protests. The new bill...
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JSA acts for SBI in stalled Dunar Foods insolvency proceedings

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) upheld an NCLT decision setting a precedent and paving the way for progress on the resolution of the Dunar Foods insolvency proceedings. JSA acted as the legal...
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Rules of engagement

There are two different rulebooks for dealing with anti-competitive behaviour around the world. Respected legal academic Souvik Chatterji analyses the differences from an India perspective and explains how one makes for quicker and more...
NOIDA dues are not a financial debtvideo

NOIDA dues are not a financial debt

By Shreya Sircar and Sneha Sanyal, Bharucha & Partners
The Supreme Court in NOIDA v Anand Sonbhadra recently considered whether sums owed by real estate developers to New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) under long-term leases could be classified as financial debts and...
Employee secondment is really a taxing environment

Employee secondment becomes taxing for Japanese companies

By Reena Asthana Khair, Kochhar & Co.
Japanese multinational companies often second their nationals to connected companies in different jurisdictions. The group learns about internal cultural differences, employees gain valuable experience and relationships are strengthened within the group. In a secondment, the...

Questions arise over restricting ‘sale of pledged shares to self’

By Aniket Sawant and Aanchal Gujrani, SNG & Partners
In the recent case of PTC India Financial Services Limited v Venkateswarlu Kari and Anr, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgement settling key aspects of the law in relation to pledges and the...
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Jayashree Dasgupta quits Dhir & Dhir to launch independent litigation chambers

Dhir & Dhir Associates’ partner Jayashree Dasgupta has left the firm after serving an 18-year career to open her own independent litigation chambers in South Delhi. She currently has two lawyers, with other appointments...
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Condition critical

A conflict has played out before several judicial forums over the fate of Future Retail, a company in grave health with creditors and two of the world’s richest men entangled in its fate. Freny...
Argus hires Bhavya Mohan as disputes partner in Bengaluru, Bhavya Mohan

Argus hires Bhavya Mohan as disputes partner in Bengaluru

Argus Partners named Bhavya Mohan as a partner in the dispute resolution practice from June at the firm’s Bengaluru office. Prior to joining Argus, she was an advocate with Arista Chambers, and as an associate...

Sale to self of pledged securities not legal

By Karthik Somasundram and Khyati Mehrotra, Bharucha & Partners
In PTC India Financial Services Limited v Venkateshwarlu Kari and Anr., the Supreme Court ruled on the exercise of rights under a pledge of dematerialised shares. The issue was whether the re-classification of the...

Ignoring precedent risks stability in real estate

By Pratik Ghose and Avishek Roy Chowdhury, HSA Advocates
The concept of precedent and the binding effect of precedents set by higher courts on lower courts is one of the cardinal bases on which the judiciary functions and the doctrine of stare decisis...

Indian Law Firm Awards 2022

Discover our other annual awards Award In a celebration of hard work, ingenuity and excellence, India Business Law Journal reveals the winners of the 2022 Indian Law Firm Awards. Vandana Chatlani reports In the past 12...
NCLT’s ability to issue warrants strengthens insolvency resolution Sonam Gupta

NCLT’s ability to issue warrants strengthens insolvency resolution

By Sonam Gupta and Saumay Kapoor, Bharucha & Partners
The inability to resolve the insolvency of a corporate debtor does not merely stem from the fact that the entity is, in fact, distressed. In many cases, the resolution professional (RP) is unable to...
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Trilegal counsels Ola on NCLAT win

Trilegal advised Ola Cabs when the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal on 7 January dismissed appeals filed by rival cab companies Meru Travels and Fast Track. The appeals pertained to a 2017 order of the...
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Deals of the Year

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Insolvency resolution process has time limits

Insolvency resolution process has time limits

The Supreme Court, in the matter of Committee of Creditors of Amtek Auto Limited through Corporation Bank v Dinkar T Venkatsubramanian, observed that the entire resolution process had to be completed within the period stipulated...
Do shareholder activists face barriers to calling meetings? Justin Bharucha Sneha Jaisingh

Do shareholder activists face barriers to calling meetings?

By Justin Bharucha and Sneha Jaisingh, Bharucha & Partners
In Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd v Invesco Developing Markets Fund & Ors, the Bombay High Court considered shareholders’ right to requisition a general meeting. Invesco, a shareholder in Zee, requisitioned an extraordinary general meeting to...
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When does CCI consider low pricing predatory?

By Lagna Panda and Prachi Agarwal, Chandhiok & Mahajan
Predatory pricing can be an abuse of dominance under Indian competition law. While the Competition Commission of India (CCI) is yet to issue a final ruling on predatory pricing by an enterprise, its decisions...
IBC offers attractive options for M&A deals Gautam Khurana

IBC offers attractive options for M&A deals

By Gautam Khurana, India Law Offices
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) has gradually evolved but, following a number of amendments, now offers a value route for M&A transactions. Corporate insolvency prior to 2016 was a disordered process but...
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CCI throws curveball in Amazon-Future saga

By Freny Patel
A penalty of USD27 million imposed on Amazon might just be petty change for the USD1.6 trillion-dollar tech giant, but there is much more at stake, not just for the US e-tailer but more...
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Competition law needs framework for private enforcement

By Vikram Sobti and Anisha Mittal, Chandhiok & Mahajan
Competition law jurisprudence in India has evolved significantly since the Competition Act, 2002 (act), came into force. However, the private enforcement of competition law infringement is yet to take off. Private enforcement claims can only...
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SC overreach undermines the purpose of IBC

By Sonam Gupta, Bharucha & Partners
The Supreme Court in Dena Bank (now Bank of Baroda) v C Shivakumar Reddy held that a money decree or adjudication of a claim creates a fresh cause of action for a financial creditor...
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Keeping up with IP

India’s IP regime is going through a tumultuous period with the abolition of the IP appellate board earlier this year, the emergence of new technologies, and challenges associated with covid-19 vaccines. We brought together...
The-rebuild: IP matters

The rebuild

The IP division at Delhi High Court may be a harbinger of a new era, but India would do well to look further afield for examples of best-practice IP dispute resolution, argues KS Kardam,...
Delays and inconsistent treatment reduce RERA’s effectiveness, Amaresh Kumar Singh, HSA Advocates

Delays and inconsistent treatment reduce RERA’s effectiveness

By Amaresh Kumar Singh, HSA Advocates
RERA, or the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (act) and the Real Estate Regulatory Authority established under it, aimed to balance the interests of the various stakeholders in the real estate ecosystem,...
Do hybrid companies still exist

Do hybrid companies still exist?

By Anushri Uttarwar and Umang Pathak 
Private entities that are legally deemed to be public, yet permitted to retain private characteristics such as restrictions on share transferability, are called hybrid companies. In the Tata-Mistry dispute, the National Company Law Appellate...
The fragile position of independent directors of banks, Sumit P and Asima Ghosh, HSA Advocates

The fragile position of independent directors of banks

By Sumit P and Asima Ghosh, HSA Advocates
The improvement of corporate governance norms of banks has been on the agenda for many years. However, after egregious irregularities and misconduct at the highest levels were found at some well-known banks and non-banking...
Khaitan & Co and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas advise on IL&FS waste management sale

Khaitan, CAM assist IL&FS on sale of waste management arm

Khaitan & Co advised EverEnviro Resource Management when it acquired the entire waste management business of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS), consisting of IL&FS Environmental Infrastructure & Services (IEISL), along with its subsidiaries...
Secured creditors not always financial creditors, Karthik Somasundram and Sneha Jaisingh, Bharucha & Partners

Secured creditors not always financial creditors

By Karthik Somasundram, Sneha Jaisingh and Alabh Lal, Bharucha & Partners
In Phoenix Arc Pvt Ltd v Ketulbhai Ramubhai Patel, the issue before the Supreme Court was whether a person holding a security interest over the assets of a corporate debtor in respect of the...
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Indian Law Firm Awards 2021

Discover our other annual awards Award Vandana Chatlani reports India has faced a terrible year battling the covid-19 pandemic. Companies and law firm offices shut shop. Homes were turned into work spaces, and lawyers relied on...
India Business Law Journal

Relying on specialists

Debate on wisdom of specialised courts returns It is no surprise that the recent scrapping of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) – a tribunal that decided on appeals from the patent and trademark office,...
NCLT proper forum for power purchase agreement insolvency, Abhishek Tripathi and Vedant Kumar, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors

NCLT proper forum for power purchase agreement insolvency

By Abhishek Tripathi and Vedant Kumar, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
The Supreme Court has ruled that the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has jurisdiction under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) in disputes involving Power Purchase Agreements (PPA). Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited...
Guarantees will now better ensure payment of debts, Aditya Vikram Dua and Aniket Sawant, SNG & Partners

Guarantees will ensure better payment of debts for now

By Aditya Vikram Dua and Aniket Sawant, SNG & Partners
It is a common practice for lenders to obtain guarantees for securing financial assistance granted to a borrower entity. The guarantor’s liability crystallises as soon as the borrower defaults on the debt. However, the...
IBC decides the fate of PPAs in insolvency, Abhirup Dasgupta and Bhawana Sharma, HSA Advocates

IBC decides the fate of PPAs in insolvency

By Abhirup Dasgupta and Bhawana Sharma, HSA Advocates
A power purchase agreement (PPA) is essential not only for the way a power project functions, but also for its very existence. There has, however, been significant uncertainty regarding the status of power generators...
Related party exclusion cannot be avoided through divestment 

Related party exclusion cannot be avoided through divestment 

Financial creditors that cease to be related parties in order to circumvent the exclusion under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, should also be considered as being covered by the exclusion, according to a...
Pledging shares does not create a financial creditor, Shweta Bharti and Nitesh Sachdeva, Hammurabi & Solomon_

Pledging shares does not create a financial creditor

By Shweta Bharti and Nitesh Sachdeva, Hammurabi & Solomon
In Phoenix Arc Pvt Ltd v Ketulbhai Ramubhai Patel, the Supreme Court held that a creditor cannot be a financial creditor on the basis of a pledge agreement unless that agreement contains an undertaking...
The committee of creditors and its commercial wisdom, Sonam Gupta, Sneha Jaisingh and Divyam Sharma, Bharucha & Partners

The committee of creditors and its commercial wisdom

By Sonam Gupta, Sneha Jaisingh and Divyam Sharma, Bharucha & Partners
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (code) was enacted to enable corporate insolvency resolution of financially stressed corporate debtors in a time bound manner, so as to maximise the value of their assets. The...
Manchanda joins partnership at Chandhiok

Manchanda joins partnership at Chandhiok

Deeksha Manchanda has been inducted into the partnership of Chandhiok & Mahajan. Previously a counsel at the firm working in the competition and regulatory practice areas, Manchanda specializes in advising clients on all aspects of...
DSK advises Dighi Port on successful insolvency resolution

DSK advises Dighi Port on successful insolvency resolution

DSK Legal advised the resolution professional of Dighi Port on its corporate insolvency resolution process, a result of which was the port’s acquisition by Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone for ₹7.05 billion (US$97.3...

Future legal leaders

Future Legal Leaders 2024 Future Legal Leaders 2023 Future Legal Leaders 2022 India Business Law Journal reveals 50 up-and-coming lawyers who are making a name for themselves in the profession Access The List In a year...
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Deals of the Year

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What the 2021 budget holds for business, Manoj Kumar, Hammurabi & Solomon

What the 2021 budget holds for business

By Manoj Kumar, Hammurabi & Solomon
The budget for 2021-22, which was unveiled on 1 February 2021, impacts a number of commercial sectors. In the corporate field, small companies are now defined as companies with paid up capital of ₹20 million...
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SC expands role of informant under Competition Law 

In a noteworthy judgment pronounced by the Supreme Court, the locus standi (right or capacity to bring an action or to appear in a court) of a person as an informant in matters pertaining...
Keeping the power on during insolvency, Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Vedant Kumar

Keeping the power on during insolvency

By Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Vedant Kumar, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL) v Yes Bank Limited recently confirmed a National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) decision restraining GUVNL from terminating the power purchase...
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Decree holders not financial creditors under IBC

By Anush Raajan and Swastika Chakravarti, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) was conceived as a solution to the growing problem of non-performing assets. Together with the Reserve Bank of India’s framework for the resolution of stressed assets, the...
S&R promotions include new disputes partner, Shahezad Kazi

S&R promotions include new disputes partner

S&R Associates has promoted disputes counsel Shahezad Kazi to the firm’s partnership. Kazi is the second disputes partner at the firm, along with Niti Dixit, who heads the practice. Kazi is based in Mumbai and...
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Destination disinvestment?

Selling off public sector enterprises could be the key to strengthening a sluggish economy, writes Subir Bikas Mitra. Will a new privatization drive succeed where earlier attempts have failed? Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan (ANBA), which...
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How to balance the IBC and the PMLA

By Manoj Kumar and Shweta Bharti, Hammurabi & Solomon
The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) seeks to prevent money laundering, to prosecute those committing money laundering and to recover and seize properties acquired by means of laundered money. However, the effective...
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An opportunity lost for corporate law reforms

By Lalit Kumar, J. Sagar Associates
The announcements forming part of the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan (Self-Reliant India Mission) were expected to introduce big and bold reforms. Follow-up actions would shore up the ailing Indian economy, which faces an unprecedented...
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A tool for financial trouble

Now is a perfect time to introduce a composite code for the resolution of financial service providers, following a series of high-profile incidents in this area, writes Mohit Shukla Editor’s note: Large banking and financial...

News in brief – April 2020

Disputes partner joins IndusLaw IndusLaw has hired Mayank Mishra as a partner in its Delhi office. Mishra joins from J Sagar Associates' dispute practice, where he was a partner and has more than 15 years...
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Indian Law Firm Awards 2020

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Competition

Competition and COVID-19: Compliance for businesses

By Deeksha Manchanda and Shruthi Rao, Chandhiok & Mahajan
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...
CCI

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...
Arbitration

Overlap between insolvency code and arbitration law

By Charanya Lakshmikumaran and Puneeth Ganapathy, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
Arbitral awards are treated as orders of a court and can be enforced as such, under the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC), subject to defences under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The Insolvency...
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News in brief – February 2020

Real estate partner at HSA HSA Advocates has hired Amaresh Kumar Singh as a partner at the firm’s New Delhi office. Prior to joining HSA, Singh worked at L&L Partners. He has more than 25...
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Reverse insolvency to the rescue in housing projects

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in Flat Buyers Association Winter Hills – 77, Gurgaon v Umang Realtech Pvt Ltd & Ors, brought by disaffected flat buyers of the Winter Hills project represented...
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Deals of the Year 2019

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Court rules committee of creditors is supreme

By Karthik Somasundram and Shreya Gupta, Bharucha & Partners
Essar Steel India defaulted on repayment obligations to its creditors and in 2017 Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and State Bank of India filed petitions for financial debt under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016....
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The evolving resolution of stressed assets

By Ramya Hariharan and Dipti Srivastava, HSA Advocates
The banking sector has been under tremendous stress in the past few years due to the increasing number of non-performing assets (NPA) caused among other things by the absence of a comprehensive bankruptcy regime....
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NBFCs brought under purview of insolvency code

By Anisha Shroff and Sharanya Kundu, Samvad Partners
With the introduction of a codified law on insolvency and bankruptcy processes, restructuring jurisprudence entered a new era. While the new law focused on rehabilitating and restructuring stressed companies, restructuring processes involving financial service...
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Pecking order

The significance of the insolvency code may be put into question if state governments do not observe the order of priority for creditors over a corporate debtor’s assets, write Arvind Varma and Amita Chohan “The...
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Creditors’ wisdom should be heeded

The verdict of the Supreme Court on 15 November 2019, in the case of Committee of Creditors of Essar Steel India Limited through Authorised Signatory v Satish Kumar Gupta & Ors, has brought clarity...
Looking beyond litigation for resolving disputes

Courting mediation

The Singapore Mediation Convention offers hope to businesses looking for an alternative to time-consuming litigation in overburdened courts. Amar Sundram reports A recent article headlined “Trust Deficit” in a leading Indian financial newspaper pointed out...
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Auditor’s professional lapses not fraud

By Karthik Somasundram and Sneha Jaisingh, Bharucha & Partners
In January 2018, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) banned the accountancy firm Price Waterhouse (PW) from auditing listed companies for a period of two years due to lapses in the audit...
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Something for everyone in the Essar judgment

By Aniket Sawant and Arvind Nagaraj, SNG & Partners
The long-awaited decision of the Supreme Court in Committee of Creditors of Essar Steel India Limited v Satish Kumar Gupta & Ors case comes as a relief for financial creditors, especially those holding security,...
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Resolution of disputed claims in insolvency process

By Charanya Lakshmikumaran and Gopal Machiraju, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
One of the key issues in the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (code), is the status and resolution of disputed claims. This has now been set to...
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India at crossroads with cross-border insolvency

By Shweta Bharti and Sukrit Kapoor, Hammurabi & Solomon
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in the Jet Airways insolvency proceedings upheld the recent cross-border protocol agreed between the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) appointed Resolution Professional (RP) and the Dutch insolvency...
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Evolution of the committee of creditors’ authority

By Charanya Lakshmikumaran and Gopal Machiraju, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
The role of the committee of creditors (CoC) in a corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) has increasingly been scrutinized and clarified by various courts and tribunals, including the Supreme Court. There have also been...
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Retaining the independence of a subsidiary

Dear Editor, An insolvency resolution professional (IRP) can stop a holding company from moving assets of a subsidiary that is going through a corporate insolvency resolution process because both the companies are separate legal entities....

Rebuilding trust

Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority chief Gautam Chatterjee talks to Gautam Kagalawala about the role of the regulator, challenges, friction with IBC and other regulations and stress in the state’s realty sector The government introduced...
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Court clarifies conditions for reopening of accounts

By Deepak Sabharwal, Deepak Sabharwal & Associates
A Supreme Court bench comprising justices Indu Malhotra and MR Shah has held that the observations made by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) while making an order under sections 241 and 242 of...
SEBI

SEBI raises questions on IBC’s overriding provisions

By Abhishek Dutta, Manish Parmar and Sayli Petiwale, Aureus Law Partners
A recent challenge by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) before the Supreme Court exemplifies how the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), remains a heavily contested field. The Supreme Court is...
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Ensuring fair distribution under waterfall mechanism

By Aditya Vikram Dua and Satish Anand Sharma, SNG & Partners
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), has been severely tested on many fronts since its enactment. One concept that remains to be tested is the waterfall mechanism, or priority of payments, in the...
Home finance

Home finance lenders are not financial creditors to developers

In a recent judgment in Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd v Rudra Buildwell Projects (P) Ltd, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) dismissed the appeal of Indiabulls claiming to be a financial creditor of...
Deccan Chronicle

Many hurdles in Deccan Chronicle insolvency

The legal team that advised on the Deccan Chronicle Holdings insolvency had to contend with multiple issues and challenges. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the resolution plan put forward by SREI Multiple...
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Liquidation under IBC

Dear Editor, In the matter of SC Sekaran vs Amit Gupta & Ors, relying on the decisions of the Supreme Court in Swiss Ribbons Pvt Ltd & Anr v Union of India & Ors and...
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As the Modi government comes back to power, Lawyers tell Gautam Kagalwala about their expectations for the new term The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won the elections resolutely...
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Insolvency code: Judicial trends

By Abhishek Tripathi and Avantika Shukla, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
Abhishek Tripathi and Avantika Shukla look at role of adjudicating bodies in IBC's evolution The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), is considered to be among the biggest achievements of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)...
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Giving creditors their fair share

By Mahesh Agarwal, Agarwal Law Associates
Protecting the interests of operational creditors is key to IBC's success, writes Mahesh Agarwal The preamble of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), lays out the code’s dual objectives of “maximization of value of...
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Charting the way ahead for IBC

By Dhananjay Kumar and Hamraj Singh, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Dhananjay Kumar and Hamraj Singh suggest ways to speed up insolvency resolution The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) emphasizes the importance of “time-bound” reorganization and resolution for distressed entities and it is touted as...
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Courts play prudent role in IBC’s logical evolution

By Karthik Somasundram and Shreya Gupta, Bharucha & Partners
The bankruptcy process in India before the enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (code), was fragmented with the rights of creditors and debtors decided by different judicial forums with sometimes conflicting decisions...
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SC weighs in on interplay of labour laws and IBC

By Abhishek Dutta and Vineet Shrivastava, Aureus Law Partners
India as a welfare state has enacted various labour laws in order to ensure the protection and promotion of the social and economic status of workers and the elimination of their exploitation. Under the Indian...
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Did the reluctance of Jet Airways’ creditors to pursue bankruptcy proceedings point to turbulence in the insolvency regime? Rebecca Abraham reports Editor’s note: The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Mumbai bench admitted the insolvency petition...
Trade unions are operational creditors under insolvency code

Trade unions are operational creditors under insolvency code

The Supreme Court, in the recent case of JK Jute Mill Mazdoor Morcha v Juggilal Kamlapat Jute Mills Company Ltd through Its Director & Ors, held that a trade union can file as an operational...
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Are designs provided to auto-parts makers dutiable?

By Sudipta Bhattacharjee and Shashank Shekhar, Advaita Legal
Tax authorities have issued several show-cause notices (SCNs) to auto-component manufacturers (ACMs) recently, seeking to recover additional excise duty on designs or drawings provided by automobile companies to the ACMs for the production and...
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NCLAT says statutory dues also operational debt

By Abhishek Dutta and Sayli Petiwale, Aureus Law Partners
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on 20 March 2019 dismissed a batch of appeals in the matter of PR Director General of Income Tax (Admn & TPS) v Synergies Dooray Automotive Ltd...
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Commercial implications of RBI circular strike-down

By Shweta Bharti, Hammurabi & Solomon
The Supreme Court recently struck down the Reserve Bank of India Circular dated 12 February 2018 (RBI circular), which directed banks to mandatorily initiate corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) for defaulting companies with loan...
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Lenders face a choice between debtor, guarantor

By Ramya Hariharan and Asmita Rakhecha, HSA Advocates
Guarantee as a form of collateral security is popular in financing deals as the liability of a guarantor and the principal debtor are coextensive. Thus, the creditor has a remedy against both the principal...
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Former directors must be given agenda before creditors meeting

The Supreme Court, while dealing with an issue relating to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), held that former members of the board of directors, being vitally interested in resolution plans that may...
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Rising to the occasion

Priya Mehra began her career at Ajay Bahl & Co, then moved to Singapore with Jones Day, and later to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, where she helped build the India practice. Now the general...
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Abhishek Dutta, Vineet Shrivastava and Manish Parmar, Aureus Law Partners

IBC: Law of guarantees and corporate insolvency process

By Abhishek Dutta, Vineet Shrivastava and Manish Parmar, Aureus Law Partners
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), in its recent ruling in the case of Vishnu Kumar Agarwal v Piramal Enterprises Ltd, while examining the validity of an application made under section 7 of...
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Leading law firms shed light on the cutting-edge practice areas that are receiving the attention of India’s top legal minds Internet platform liability Bankruptcy & insolvency Data privacy Taxation  INTERNET PLATFORM LIABILITY  Intermediary liability in India...
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IBC: Ensuring dissenting creditors get fair deal

By Dhananjay Kumar and Gautam Sundaresh, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
 BANKRUPTCY & INSOLVENCY  A resolution plan passed under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), binds all stakeholders of the company including any dissenting creditors. Providing a 66% voting threshold by value for approval is...
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NCLAT: case pending under negotiable instruments act not a dispute

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) recently held that if a case is pending under section 138/141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (NIA), it cannot be held to be a dispute pending...

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