SEBI, on 24 August 2022, imposed fines of INR 1,00,000 each on 8 individuals for violation of insider trading norms (pertaining to...

As per Regulation 12(ba) of the erstwhile Venture Capital Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) (Venture Capital Funds)...

A company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 is required to mandatorily formulate policies, procedures and mechanisms...

Introduction Since the last decade, there have been efforts from the Government of India to increase focus on making businesses...

The key managerial personnel (“KMP”) are the executive management of a company. This playbook will discuss the conditions and...

Upon the introduction of the dividend distribution tax, companies in India have started utilizing the process of buyback of shares for...

The Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) circulated Master Directions on External Commercial Borrowings, Trade Credits and Structured...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (“CERT-In”) issued some directions related to cyber security on April 28, 2022 (“CERT...

The Promoter generally is subjected to various disclosures by regulations of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”)....

A company enters into many contracts with various parties for purposes like sale, purchase of good, availing or rendering of services or...

What is Employees’ Stock Option? It is an option given to the directors, officers or employees of a company or of its holding...

Introduction In recent times, convertible notes have become a popular instrument of fund-raising for start-up companies, particularly at...

There is an important SEBI informal guidance ("Guidance") which supports the digital gold app models. Tata and start-ups like Jar have...

The Indian law on sexual harassment at workplace - i.e., Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)...

Are you running a business which uses sensitive information of individuals? If that is the case, this playbook is for you. Although the...

Are you a marketplace e-commerce entity? If yes, are you a seller? If you are then the checklist is for you. This is checklist for...

Are you a digital platform? If yes, this checklist is for you. There is a popular misconception that platforms have very light...

Introduction For dealing with e-commerce and food-tech entities, the food regulator of India i.e., Food Safety and Standards Authority of...

We had shared a note on the media law amendments which we had stated were “game-changing.” We will navigate the bitter Twitter conflict...

Effective February 25, 2021, the law has stepped up the responsibilities of social media and news portals. This is via an entirely fresh...

This update has been prepared to set out the key observations of the Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) In Re: Updated Terms of...

This update has been prepared to set out the key observations of the Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) In Re: Pramod Mahajan and...

This update has been prepared to set out the key takeaways from the SEBI press release [PR No.52/2020 dated 29 September 2020] which...

In the long and lively series of orders involving the taxi-aggregator space, there has been remarkable inconsistency. Except in one area:...