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Significant Beneficial Owners: India Sneaks Up On Didn't You Get The Memo?

India recently released the Companies (Significant Beneficial Owners) Amendment Rules, 2018. The Government thereafter modified these rules with the Companies (Significant Beneficial Owners) Amendment Rules, 2019 (“SBO Rules”) effective from February 8, 2019. Since the idea of ensuring greater accountability and transparency over beneficial ownerships is relatively new, the SBO Rules will have to withstand the test of time

Group Insolvency: The Future Of Resolving Complex Insolvencies In India

Considering the issue around CIRP for group companies such as value deterioration in the assets of the group companies and lack of bidders in the market for individual group company, the time seems right to further strengthen the Code by adding a chapter on Group Insolvency

Proven Merit Should Be The Consideration, Equally Applicable For The Bench And The Bar

Legal Era Magazine in conversation with Amarjit Singh Chandhiok President, INSOL India

Object Vs Process: The Big Conundrum

The Code has to maintain balance among the objectives by consistently ensuring maximization of value, promotion of entrepreneurship, availability of credit and balancing the stakeholders’ interests within a transparent and time-bound manner

Is The Ban On ENDS Healthy?

Is it fair for the Government, as a stakeholder in India’s largest cigarette company, to advise banning a product without even considering the views prevailing in other jurisdictions and the reasons why they have regulated and allowed sale of ENDS?

Season For Successful - Private Equity Exits

Private equity (PE) exits in India grew by more than 60% in value terms to $15.7 billion in 2017, making it the best year for PE exits, according to Bain and Co.’s India Private Equity Report 2018

Medical Devices Rules, 2017: A Boost To The Indian Healthcare Industry

The Medical Devices Rules are a positive step towards making regulatory requirements more hassle-free and practical for manufacturers and importers alike

Cyber-Bullying And The Related Laws In India

It is now in the hands of the executive and legislature to put in place a legislation that regulates cyber-bullying

Investing In Indonesia - Current Trends And Pitfalls

Indonesia is South East Asia’s largest economy and a stable democracy.

(Not) Made In India

Despite successive governments scrapping thousands of archaic statutes that have no place in modern India, there are a few British relics that we continue to follow even today

New Challenges Ahead: How To Comply With Cross-Border Data Transfer Regulation In China 

Although the Cybersecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China is still in grace period, Chinese authorities have already taken enforcement actions against companies for non-compliance with it 

No Guarantee For Lenders Under IBC

The credence of guarantees given to lenders ought to be protected under all circumstances in order to ensure that lenders are not left high and dry with huge piles of NPAs

Woman Of Substance

It was entirely due to CORNELIA SORABJI’s efforts that the legal profession was opened to women in India in 1924

Sexual Assault Cases Involving Children To Be Fast-tracked

Sexual Assault Cases Involving Children To Be Fast-tracked.

NCMEI Has Wide Powers, Rules SC

NCMEI Has Wide Powers, Rules SC.

We Must Never Forget The Lessons Of The Internal Emergency Of June 1975 Fali Sam Nariman...

Legal Era in conversation with India’s most distinguished constitutional lawyer, the legendary.

Sports And Intellectual Property Rights

Commercialization of sports has become enormous. Marketing through franchising as well as brand building of sports, sportsmen, and events has gained gigantic importance. In such a scenario, Intellectual Property protection is needed as a safeguard. For the people who run the show, it is a multi-billion business, and protecting this business is the strong arm of Intellectual Property.

Even The Holy Quran Does Not Recognize Triple Talaq

Legal Era Magazine in conversation with Mrunalini Deshmukh, outlining her thoughts on the recent triple talaq judgment by SC…

Never Pick a career in Finance If you're Not A Hands - On Person

Never Pick a career in Finance If you're Not A Hands - On Person

Improving Justice Delivery

The author suggests ways and means to expedite court proceedings

Over 1000 NGOs To Validate Foreign Contribution Bank Accounts

Over 1000 NGOs To Validate Foreign Contribution Bank Accounts

RBI Uses Currency Verification And Processing Machines For SBNs

RBI Uses Currency Verification And Processing Machines For SBNs

Why Labour Laws Should Be Reformed

The government is coming up with a vision to consolidate and simplify Acts dealing with labour laws wherein around 44 different Acts will be integrated into 5 Acts only. This will certainly boost business as will removal of redundant provisions that are not in sync with the current business environment.

India - A Potential Superpower of Capabilities

“Equal consideration for all may demand very unequal treatment in favour of the disadvantaged.”

Bank Of America Applies For Patent For 'CRYPTOCURRENCY TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM'

Among large corporations who have filed recent blockchain technology patents including Mastercard (which has developed an instant blockchain payment system) and Goldman Sachs, the most recent one appears to be Bank of America Corporation (BAC), a multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Rules For Religious Conversions, Inter-faith Marriages Issued

On December 15, the Rajasthan HC, hearing a case of alleged ‘love jihad’, issued severe guidelines for religious conversions and inter-faith marriages and guided that these will remain in force till the state government brings in a law to govern conversions.

Goods And Services Tax - A Report Card Of First Six Months Since Debut!!

While the GST, ever since it was implemented, has remained a topic of debate in public and private forums, the article looks at how the tax has fared for the first six months of its existence

Determining The Price Of A Target Business In M&A Transactions: Completion Accounts V Locked Box Mechanisms

One of the most negotiated areas in the private acquisition of a business is the method of pricing the target.

Employment Opportunity Or Scam?

While law may always play catch-up with technology, it is critical to establish and foster institutions such as those under the Information Technology Act, 2000 to combat scams using technolegal solutions 

GST Council In Its 24th Meeting Makes Implementation Of E-way Bills Mandatory From Feb 1, 2018

On December 16, the GST Council conducted its 24th meeting in an unscheduled manner through video conferencing.