Corporate & Company Law

For designated persons at a listed company, "I didn't actually know anything price-sensitive" is not a defense during a closed trading window — the restriction

Most arbitration clause problems are invisible until a dispute actually arises — a poorly worded clause sits harmlessly in a contract for years, then becomes th

Arbitration takes time to set up — but a dispute sometimes needs urgent action before a tribunal even exists. Section 9 exists specifically to bridge that gap,

India's courts have deliberately narrowed how much room they give themselves to refuse enforcing a foreign award — a party trying to resist enforcement can't si

Mediation existed in India before 2023, but largely without a dedicated statutory framework giving it the same procedural certainty arbitration has long enjoyed

Losing an arbitration doesn't give you a second bite at the merits in court — Section 34 deliberately confines a challenge to a short, specific list of procedur

Ad hoc arbitration looks cheaper on paper — no institutional fees, full party control — but that flexibility is exactly what creates the procedural deadlock ris

The 2019 Act wasn't a minor update to the 1986 law — it added an entire regulator with investigative and penalty powers, created a brand-new category of product

An online listing that looks complete to a shopper is often missing mandatory disclosures the platform is legally required to display — and marketplace operator

Product liability didn't exist as a standalone, codified concept under India's old consumer law — the 2019 Act built a genuinely new framework, and it deliberat

Filing a consumer complaint in the wrong forum wastes time before the actual grievance is even heard — the right commission is determined by a specific value th

A celebrity fronting a misleading advertisement can no longer plausibly claim they were "just doing their job" — CCPA's framework specifically extends liability

That countdown timer creating urgency, the pre-checked add-on you didn't notice, the subscription that's deliberately harder to cancel than to start — these are

The SARFAESI Act gave secured lenders something genuinely unusual — the power to seize and sell a defaulting borrower's mortgaged or hypothecated asset without

A loan dispute above a specified value doesn't go to a regular civil court at all — it goes to a specialised tribunal built specifically to move faster than the

Receiving a SARFAESI demand notice is not the same as losing the asset — a borrower has a genuine, legally protected right to raise objections during the 60-day

A One-Time Settlement can genuinely resolve a defaulted loan for less than the full outstanding amount — but the "settled" status it leaves on your credit repor

Signing as a loan guarantor is agreeing to something more binding than most guarantors realise — the law generally treats a guarantor's liability as coextensive

Finding out your bank has sold your defaulted loan to an Asset Reconstruction Company can feel like the ground shifting under you — but the legal reality is mor

Holding a Director Identification Number comes with an annual filing obligation that continues even after you've stopped serving as a director anywhere — and mi

Every company's annual compliance calendar centres on two core ROC filings that serve genuinely different purposes — one reports the company's financial stateme