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• Foreign Regulatory Requests: Balancing Cooperation, Compliance and Data Protection

  Summary: As businesses become increasingly global, requests from foreign regulators, courts and law-enforcement agencies for information held in India are becoming a routine part of cross-border compliance. Businesses must now play the balancing act—comply with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”), and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (“DPDP Rules”), on...

• When The Cover Gets Judged: Unboxing Cosmetics Packaging Obligations

  Summary: Cosmetics packaging sits across overlapping regimes, spanning labelling accuracy, plastic waste management, and product-specific rules of their own. A single product may touch all three frameworks at once, raising issues from registration requirements to mislabelling liability to repercussions for missed EPR targets. The real challenge, however, lies in reliably seeing where they all converge...

• Florida’s Expanding Regulatory Focus on Offshore Health Data

  Florida healthcare organizations that rely on offshore vendors for claims processing, billing, IT services, call center services, or other administrative functions face a convergence of regulatory pressure that did not exist even a year ago. In March 2026, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) suspended a third-party administrator for routing sensitive Medicare Advantage data...

• Guarding the Guardians: Building Statutory Discipline into India’s Delegated Legislation

  Summary: Over the past 25 years, India’s economic law-making has shifted decisively from Parliament to regulators, with statutes such as the Companies Act, 2013 and the SEBI Act, 1992 supplying only a bare framework while the operative detail is filled in through rules, regulations, and circulars. Clause 147 of the Securities Markets Code, 2025 seeks...

• The India–EU Free Trade Agreement: A Landmark Deal Moves Toward Finalisation

  Summary: With the India–EU FTA proceeding towards finalisation, both economies now have an opportunity to prepare for sweeping tariff cuts, new market access, and revised compliance obligations before the agreement is finally concluded. The blog sets out the key provisions of the FTA, particularly those related to the automotive, agri-food, financial services, and IP-sensitive sectors,...

• Towards Certainty: RBI’s Draft Directions on Debit Freeze

  Summary: This article aims to analyse the Draft Reserve Bank of India (Know Your Customer) Amendment Directions, 2026 in light of the current legislative and judicial framework and practical challenges faced by entities and individuals upon debit-freezing of accounts in relation to financial crimes and cyber frauds. New age digital banking, despite its convenience, has...

• BRICS 2026: The Next Frontier Must Be Easier Market Access And Lower Tariffs

  Summary: The New Delhi Declaration adopted at the 18th BRICS Summit signals progress on customs cooperation and regulatory alignment, but its real test lies in whether it can deliver lower tariffs, fewer non-tariff barriers, and faster market access for exporters. This blog examines why India should pursue targeted tariff liberalisation and regulatory interoperability through the...

• The Lakshman Rekha for Independent Directors: Board Oversight versus Operational Overreach

  Summary: Indian corporate governance law pulls independent directors in two directions. Schedule IV to the Companies Act, 2013, requires them to keep out of day-to-day management. At the same time, a recent line of orders from SEBI and the Securities Appellate Tribunal demands closer diligence from independent directors on audit committees. The boundary between the two,...

• A Tale of Two Secondments: Search for the Real Employer

  Summary: Two recent rulings, by the Delhi ITAT and the Delhi High Court, reached opposite conclusions on the same question: Who is the real employer of seconded personnel? Although arising in different contexts, both referred to factors established in the OECD Commentary on Article 15 for determining the true employer but differed in their emphasis...

• No Shield For Directors? BHC Analyses The Applicability Of The Moratorium Under Sections 96 And 101 Of The IBC To Prosecutions Under Section 138 Of The NI Act

  Summary: This blog analyses a recent BHC judgment that delineates the contours of the interim moratorium under Section 96 of the IBC vis-à-vis the initiation/ continuation of a prosecution under Sections 138 read with 141 of the NI Act against the directors of a company. Introduction The moratorium under Part III of the Insolvency and...

Featured documents

• 90 kids taken ill due to food poisoning in Mumbai

  The Press Trust of India reports that Ninety school children and a woman employee of the school were on Thursday admitted to a hospital with food poisoning after consuming sweets distributed by a local Shiv Sena functionary to celebrate birthday of Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray, police...

• India’s Regulation of the Internet

  Raman Chima, National Law School of India University, has published “The Regulation of the Internet With Relation to Speech and Expression by the Indian State.” Here is the abstract.      Download the paper from SSRN here....

• Royal Caribbean “Dowry Death” Case Update

  The sad case of Neha Chhikara who jumped from the Royal Caribbean cruise on December 31, 2009 continues to receive widespread attention in India.  Her friends have expressed condolences to the Chhikara family for her untimely death.    Newspapers in India are now reporting that the family of the...

• India’s Comprehensive New Data Rules

  Kevin Boyle and Amy Taylor contributed to this post. Vast amounts of global personal data flow through India, including as a result of its major outsourced services industry.  For that reason, India’s recently adopted data privacy regulations, which implement the Information Technology (Amendment)...

• Changes to Visa Processing in India

  The U.S. Embassy in India has announced that a new system for visa processing will be implemented beginning on September 26, 2012.    The Embassy’s new website, www.ustraveldocs.com/in, facilitates many of the changes and is available in English and Hindi. The biggest change is that a new...

• Media Self Regulation In the Indian Legal Regime

  Aastha Mishra, Delhi University, has published Self Regulation in the Indian Media. Here is the abstract. The fourth pillar of democracy, the media, has never hogged more limelight than it has in the last few years in India. In the scramble for TRPs (target rating points), the line between news and ...

• What You Need to Know About Non-Compete Covenants in India

  As a special feature of our blog –special guest postings by experts, clients, and other professionals –please enjoy this blog entry about non-compete covenants in India by technology and corporate attorneys Sajai Singh and Soumya Patnaik of J. Sagar Associates in Bengaluru, India. Sajai serves as...

• India and Net Neutrality

  Shruti Barker, Covington Burling, here, on the net neutrality debate in India.  More on the issue from the Times of India, here from the BBC.  Link here to regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s paper discussing background issues, net neutrality, and suggestions for how to...

• Recent Changes to Merger Control

  We take a look at recent re-notification and revised merger control thresholds to the Competition Act, 2002, and how they will reduce regulatory hurdles for smaller transactions and facilitate ease of doing business in India. The Competition Act, 2002 (Act), requires mandatory notification to and...

• Brace yourself. Service of process in India is gonna take a while. Still. In 2026.

  [Although we’ve seen a couple of hopeful glimmers lately, I still recommend that my clients expect a full two years before receipt of proof, and even that might be optimistic. The New York Times reports that Indian courts have a backlog of 50 million criminal and civil cases, positing that clearing ...