Summary: The IFSCA has introduced a new framework allowing Venture Capital Schemes and Restricted Schemes in GIFT IFSC to issue senior and junior (or subordinate) unit classes with differential distribution rights, facilitating blended finance structures that combine concessional and commercial capital. The framework also prescribes minimum ticket sizes for junior unit holders, enhanced PPM disclosure requirements, and
Summary: Cosmetics packaging sits across overlapping regimes, spanning labelling accuracy, plastic waste management, and product-specific rules of their own. A single product may touch all three frameworks at once, raising issues from registration requirements to mislabelling liability to repercussions for
Summary: Over the past 25 years, India’s economic law-making has shifted decisively from Parliament to regulators, with statutes such as the Companies Act, 2013 and the SEBI Act, 1992 supplying only a bare framework while the operative detail is filled
Summary: With the India–EU FTA proceeding towards finalisation, both economies now have an opportunity to prepare for sweeping tariff cuts, new market access, and revised compliance obligations before the agreement is finally concluded. The blog sets out the key provisions
Summary: Indian corporate governance law pulls independent directors in two directions. Schedule IV to the Companies Act, 2013, requires them to keep out of day-to-day management. At the same time, a recent line of orders from SEBI and the Securities Appellate
Summary: The blog provides a summary of the Supreme Court’s recent judgment in Abhishek Baxi v. Union of India, where parents challenged the extensive and compulsory nature of collecting and retaining student information for the purpose of generation of Automated
Summary: With artificial intelligence increasingly driving the personalisation of skincare and beauty products in India, businesses operating at this intersection must navigate a complex and evolving regulatory landscape. This post examines the key legal considerations that arise when AI is
Summary: Whole genome sequencing has rapidly transitioned from a research tool to a routine diagnostic offering in India, now available through accredited laboratory chains and direct-to-consumer testing kits alike. Yet India lacks a single, dedicated law governing genomic testing; instead,
Summary: Private companies in India are required to dematerialise their securities, but the existing demat onboarding process appears to be designed for Indian shareholders only. There is no proper onboarding guidance for foreign body corporates, leaving registrars and share transfer
Summary: By affirming that insider-trading liability under the 2015 PIT Regulations turns on possession of information and not the purpose behind the trade, the Court has shut the door on ‘legitimate reason’ defences that SAT and earlier precedents had left
