The Competition Act, 2002 (as amended) (Competition Act) prohibits anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position and regulates combination (mergers or amalgamations or acquisitions) of enterprises.

As noted above, the Indian judicial system is hierarchical with the Supreme Court of India (SC) at the apex, High Courts (HC) for each State and district courts for each district.

The Indian real estate sector plays a significant role in augmenting the country’s economy. Property law is the area of law that governs various forms of ownership and tenancy rights in real property and personal property within the common law legal system.

It has been more than four and a half years since India implemented a Goods and Services Tax (GST), replacing the earlier multi-layered indirect tax regime to create a common market and single unified system of indirect taxation.

The Income Tax Act, 1961 (IT Act) governs the income tax liability in India. Income tax is levied by the Central Government at the national level.

The Indian capital market is one of the oldest markets in Asia. Apart from equity and debentures (both of which are traded in dematerialized form), even derivatives are traded in the Indian capital market.

The powers of management given to directors must be exercised in a fiduciary capacity bona fide in the interest of and for the benefit of the company, as a whole. The common law duties of the directors have now been codified under the CA 2013.

An Indian company must comply with many laws depending upon, among other things, whether it is a listed company or not, the business and activities that it is engaged in, the persons it employs, and the sector of the economy that it operates in.

Raising debt from sources outside India is governed by the external commercial borrowing (ECB) guidelines and other applicable regulations of the RBI.

The Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules 2019 (NDI Rules) notified by the RBI and the Consolidated Foreign Direct Investment Policy...