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Dissecting delay

Who is to blame for the inefficiencies and delays at Delhi High Court?

Big, bold and bullish

Private equity investors get hungry for control

Competing interests

Will India ever permit the arbitration of competition law matters?

In the interest of fairness

Cherie Blair talks trade, equality and cooperation

Banking on secrecy

Customer confidentiality and privacy in the banking sector

Partners for life?

Clearing hurdles for mergers between insurance companies

Healthy business opportunities

By Vandana Pai Bharucha and Aakanksha Pagnis, Bharucha & Partners

Dynamism endures

By Iqbal Khan and Natasha Shroff, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas

Her place in justice

What factors affect the rise of women in India's judiciary?

New connections

Is Beijing Digital Telecom's acquisition of a stake in Spice Online a harbinger of more Sino-Indian action to come?

Fresh start

Sourish Mohan Mitra asks whether institutional arbitration will finally make an impact on India

Privacy matters

Khushboo Baxi and Siddhartha Sarangal explain why digital businesses would profit from a multilateral data protection framework

Money matters

What the budget means for your business

A push for procedural certainty

The perils of delegated legislation

Banking on Asia

In conversation with AIIB general counsel Gerard Sanders

Of carrots and sticks

How to build a defence against corrupt practices

Halting harassment

The realities of legally protecting women in the workplace

On the cards

Rudra Kumar Pandey and Bani Brar forecast emerging regulatory trends and opportunities for in-house counsel to be business leaders

What’s on the IP agenda for 2017?

DPS Parmar and Aniruddh Singh of LexOrbis discuss the pros and cons of ongoing sectoral reform

Choose your battles wisely

Pankaj Soni provides some smart tips for patent enforcement in 2017

Bombay Stock Exchange faces legal and regulatory hurdles

Regulatory hurdles stand tall as India's stock exchanges prepare to list

Falling out of favour

Boardroom drama at Tata tests corporate governance

In-house beat

In conversation with Tech Mahindra’s group general counsel

The A-List 2016

India Business Law Journal reveals the country's most recommended lawyers

Asian ambition

In conversation with UNCITRAL's João Ribeiro

In limbo

What companies should do before Brexit

Getting to grips with GST

The challenges facing companies as India's new tax regime nears

Rattled by rent

Obsolete rent control laws are holding back real estate markets in urban India

Fake in India

What in-house counsel can do to combat counterfeiting

India’s patent predicament

The battle between innovators, multinationals and the public

A view from the inside (2016 IBLJ Directory)

Analysis of the state of play in India's legal market

Marks in trouble

Protecting trademarks is tricky across the border in nepal, for a variety of reasons, write Roma Arora and Harsh Aggarwal

Laying down laws

The key bills pending in India's parliament that will impact domestic and international businesses

Partnership

What it means and why it may matter to clients

Commercial shields

Corporate buyers are warming to the idea of M&A insurance

Paradise lost

What are the implications of India regaining taxation rights on investments made through Mauritius?

Rewriting the rules

India eyes new roadmap for well-known trademarks

Too hot to handle?

Why masala bonds may be too spicy for some investors

Fit for India?

Patent prologue

Make in India?

Sea change

Charting India's offshore opportunities

Funds in flux

Regulatory hurdles may be less daunting

In the spotlight

PK Malhotra and Sudhanshu Pandey talk reform

Rights of the media

Pre-censorship law in India has important ramifications, argue Jasleen Oberoi, Surbhi Mehta and Deepro Guha

A work in progress

Chasing capital

What's in store for cash-hungry companies?

Globetrotting

Understanding costs and benefits

Developing an effective enforcement strategy for India can be tricky

IP warrior

Early days for InvITs

Infrastructure investment trusts have great potential, but changes are necessary

Reinforcing obligations

New listing regulations are a step in the right direction

Taking stock

The new Companies Act will change governance norms

Tech talk

Lawyers grapple with practice management

Arbitration clauses: do’s and don’ts

Be specific when drafting an arbitration clause, says Chan Leng Sun

Breaking bottlenecks

Strategies for speeding up dispute resolution

Balancing act?

Weighing up the controversies and confusion surrounding the applicability of minimum alternate tax to foreign institutional investors

Distinctness leads to division

Vidisha Garg at Anand and Anand explains the significance of a recent decision on divisional applications

Prescriptions for protection

Patent pulse with Natco and Cipla

Roadblock to reform

Why rampant rule breaking is holding India back

Embracing biodiversity

Regulations to protect biodiversity need clarification to ensure compliance and maintain the pace of research

Nestlé’s noodle nightmare

The fiasco over the safety of Maggi noodles gives rise to concerns about regulatory ambiguity, process and power

Riding the boom

Bangalore’s evolving legal market

Processing improvements in India’s legal system

Should domestic companies embrace LPO?

Clash of the titans

Recruitment frenzy as Shroffs vie for dominance

Heading for cover

Professional indemnity cover gains ground

A route worth considering

Videocon d2h’s recent listing on the Nasdaq provides useful lessons

A smooth ride

Tips for success when tapping India’s capital markets

Trademark troubles

Roma Arora and Harsh Aggarwal of Havells share some experiences and anecdotes of managing their brands in India

A requiem for section 66A

As netizens cheer the upholding of their constitutional rights, Abhishek Malhotra analyzes a ruling that prompted it

Leading evidence in trademark cases

What are some of the key do’s and don’ts in a typical trademark litigation in India

Get protected internationally

Why Indian companies should register their IP in overseas markets

Faces behind the marks

Brand managers reveal hopes, fears and preferred law firms

The need of the hour

India must overhaul its machinery for resolving tax disputes, writes Aseem Chawla at MPC Legal

Taking stock

Indian lawyers reflect on the challenges facing the legal profession

Time for action

Examining the wider business implications of India’s goods and services tax regime

Making sense of the budget

Implications and action points for in-house counsel

Riding the UAE building wave

By Opportunities abound for Indian companies but as Sachin Kerur explains, understanding the rules is vital

A tale of two countries

By Jayshree Gupta at Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla contrasts the UAE and Indian legal systems

A busy corridor

Outbound investment from India to the Middle East is gathering pace

Shutting up shop

The complexities of closing a factory in India

A can-do spirit

In-house profile: Roma Arora of Havells

Opening up?

Liberalizing the legal market is back on the agenda

Investing in turbulent times

How business friendly is Argentina’s current environment?

Trade tonic

Latin America opens doors for Indian pharma

From campus to career

Plugging gaps in legal education

Entering new domains

How the licensing of standard essential patents has strayed into the realm of competition law

The prime minister’s brand

Is the rise of NaMo trademarks a case of sipping while the tea is hot?

Bright ideas

In-house counsel trade tips on IP protection

Donning legal armour

Amit Cowshish investigates the chinks in India's defense procurement guidelines

Pulling the strings

How foreign players can safeguard their investments through the use of creative strategies, even if they don’t have full control

Fighting it out

Pravin Anand and Nishchal Anand evaluate IP dispute resolution processes in India

Papering over the cracks

Moves to make India’s arbitration law fit for purpose

Fighting fires

Singapore is enhancing its image as a global dispute resolution hub

Clubs are trumps

Are networks of independent law firms meaningful partnerships or merely expensive badges of honour?

Building international bridges

In addition to domestic projects, Indian investors are eyeing infrastructure investments abroad

Financing mining

The financing of mining infrastructure can be tricky. Jo Daniels at Baker & McKenzie explains

A fundamental rebuild

As infrastructure climbs to the top of the political agenda changes are needed to drive real growth

High technology in India endangered by judicial interference

Judicial interference in matters of high technology may be endangering development and progress

India’s annual budget and goods and services tax

Raising caps on foreign investment may not have the desired effect, even though it is seen as a step in the right direction

Dangling a carrot

What Modi’s reforms mean for foreign investors

Desperate measures

As high levels of corporate debt trigger a wave of divestments, Nandini Lakshman explores the challenges of selling assets in troubled times

Modi’s landslide

Fourteen members of the legal community discuss what to expect from India’s new government

Commercial hazards

Managing risk requires an understanding of the changing dynamics of the environment in which a company operates

Picking an IP lawyer

Tips from practitioners and in-house counsel

Head to head

Trademark law in India and China

Falling foul?

A proposal to widen the ambit of the UK Bribery Act could spell trouble for Indian companies

Sweet success

How a temple prevailed in the battle over a geographical indication for its famous confection

Confusing messages

India’s advertising regulations are disjointed and disparate

Laws that need work

India’s antiquated labour laws pose problems for employers and employees in the IT sector

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FDI blasts off into the space sector

By Rohit Jain and Keshav Singhania, Singhania & Co
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Banning false environmental claims benefits private equity

By Vandana Pai and Ayush Jain, Bharucha & Partners
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By Shahid Khan and Reena Asthana Khair, Kochhar & Co.

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India’s telecoms act

Any hangups?

India’s telecoms act updates an outdated regime but brings with it privacy and implementation concerns

Lawyers' long work hours in India

Punching the clock

A national debate on long, grinding work hours finds most relevance in the legal profession

Steady as she goes

Tax specialists Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan provide an analysis of the tax policies unveiled during the budget

Practitioner’s perspectives

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Understanding India's new data protection regime

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By Harsh Kumar and Indraneel Chakraborty, Kaizen Law
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By Arnav Joshi and Ashima Obhan, Obhan & Associates

Vantage point

Proactive approach needed to fight counterfeiters

A call to action

Proactive approach needed to fight counterfeiters

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