Summary: Variable Capital Companies (VCCs) have emerged as a key structuring tool for wealth and asset management. The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) recently introduced its VCC framework earlier this year, joining Singapore, which has had a similar regime in
Summary: This article explores the regulatory challenges surrounding acne and transdermal patches in India. An acne patch that promises to “reduce a blemish overnight” and a nicotine patch that delivers a measured dose through the skin look worlds apart. Yet
Summary: An allegation of communication of unpublished price sensitive information under Regulation 3 of the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015, cannot be established merely basis proximity between parties or trading pattern. Balram Garg held that cogent material such
Summary: Heightened food-safety enforcement is bringing renewed attention to the personal exposure of directors and senior management. A series of High Court decisions in 2026 illustrates the boundaries of liability under Section 66 of the Food Safety and Standards Act,
Summary: This blog traces the regulatory and judicial evolution of fraud classification by banks. It provides an overview of the 2016 Fraud Directions, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Rajesh Agarwal, reading natural justice into the 2016 Directions, and summarises the
Summary: This article examines a recent adjudication order passed by the Registrar of Companies, Bangalore against a private company for effecting a transfer of shares without prior dematerialisation i.e., in contravention of Rule 9B of the Companies (Prospectus and Allotment
Summary: The Gujarat High Court’s ruling on corporate guarantees is not merely about whether GST is payable. It is about the limits of statutory fiction, the sanctity of commercial reality and the constitutional discipline that must govern taxation.
Summary: India’s healthcare delivery has long been shaped by two extremes: small clinics offering basic consultation and large corporate hospitals delivering advanced tertiary care. Micro-hospitals, typically comprising 15 to 75 beds, have emerged as the “missing middle”, combining lean infrastructure,
Summary: What happens when a contract says “arbitration”, but the law says “tribunal”? The Gujarat High Court, on an issue of disputes arising from public works, gave precedence to the Gujarat Public Works Contracts Disputes Arbitration Tribunal Act, 1992 (“Gujarat
Summary: A magistrate takes cognizance of an offence on a private complaint prior to examining the complainant on oath under Section 200 of the CrPC, 1973. However, BNSS, 2023, has upset this settled position. Like the erstwhile Section 200 of
