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Corporate Amicus: October 2023

The article analyses the impact of Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 on processing of employee data by businesses for a variety of purposes, including performance assessment, extending various benefits, payroll, legal compliance and occasionally to safeguard employer’s interests.

Corporate Amicus: September 2023

The article in this issue of Corporate Amicus discusses laws relating to termination of employees and workmen in India. It summarises various requirements under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders)...

Corporate Amicus: August 2023

The article in this issue of Corporate Amicus discusses elaborately the implications of the new Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 for the financial entities and the fin-tech sector. It, in this regard, discusses topics like, meeting consent and notice requirements; interplay with sectoral regulations; legitimate purposes for processing;

Corporate Amicus: July 2023

Withdrawal of corporate insolvency proceeding even prior to formation of committee of creditors

Corporate Amicus: June 2023

Revival of the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (‘CIRP’) proceedings refers to the restoration of the already withdrawn CIRP by a creditor which generally happens upon the breach of the settlement agreement pursuant to which the application for CIRP also gets withdrawn.

Corporate Amicus: May 2023

The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court recently in the case of N.N. Global Mercantile Pvt. Ltd. v. Indo Unique Flame Ltd. held that arbitration cannot be invoked when the arbitration agreement or clause is contained in an unstamped or insufficiently stamped agreement or...

Corporate Amicus: April 2023

While the inclusion of interest amounts in ‘financial debt’, for the purposes of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, is clearly provided for, the interest component in the case of ‘operational debt’ has always been a point of contention.

Corporate Amicus: March 2023

The first article in this issue of Corporate Amicus discusses a recent decision of the Registrar of Companies, NCT of Delhi and Haryana relating to Section 42 of the Companies Act, 2013 (private placement of shares).

Corporate Amicus: February 2023

In the backdrop of India’s commitments made in the UN Climate Change Conference in 2021, the Central Government has recently enacted the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022 (‘Amendment Act’) to amend the two decades old Energy Conservation Act, 2001.

Corporate Amicus: January 2023

The article in this issue of Corporate Amicus analyses the recently introduced E-waste (Management) Rules, 2022. The new Rules will come into force on 1 April 2023 and will introduce recycling targets in the extended producer responsibility (‘EPR’) plan of the producers of e-waste.