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Lessons from 2019 for the Indian Arbitration Regime: A Commercial Viewpoint INTRODUCTION The year 2019 saw a second amendment to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Act) and a plethora…

Tax Litigation: The Saga Continues INTRODUCTION Litigation’, said Ambrose Bierce, ‘is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage’. A look at…

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Legal Advisor to M&A Transactions in 2019. CAM advised M&A deals worth $15.8 Billion (across 46 qualifying deals). Shardul…

FEMA Overhaul and Bifurcation of Debt and Non- Debt Instruments The Finance Act of 2015 had proposed certain amendments to the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (“FEMA”). After a long…

AZB & Partners topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Legal Advisor to Private Equity Transactions in 2019. AZB advised PE deals worth $16 Billion (across 106 qualifying deals) during…

Arpwood Capital topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to M&A Deals for the year 2019. Arpwood advised M&A deals worth $4.1 Billion (across 5 qualifying deals) during…

Ambit Corporate Finance topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to Private Equity Transactions for the year 2019. Ambit advised PE deals worth $2.4 Billion (across 4 qualifying…

Private Equity (PE) investments in India rose to their highest ever figure of $37 Billion in 2019 (across 861 transactions), according to data from Venture Intelligence (https://www.ventureintelligence.com), a research service…

A Business Standard article quotes Venture Intelligence data on rising investments in the EV space: Investment flows into such start-ups in 2019 (until the end of November) have grown nearly…

GLOBAL TAKE-DOWN OF DEFAMATORY CONTENT BY ONLINE PLATFORMS An intense international debate is on relating to merits of global blocking of offensive and defamatory content including any URLs/web links/videos uploaded…