India Business Law Journal

24/09/2026

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas advises IFC on USD500m SIDBI loan https://law.asia/ifc-sidbi-loan/

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co has advised the International Finance Corporation on a USD500 million senior, unsecured, US dollar-denominated external commercial borrowing facility to the Small Industries Development Bank of India.

“IFC’s support to SIDBI comes at a time when Indian banks and financial institutions are actively exploring the RBI’s ECB/FCNR(B) INR/USD swap window to access dollar funding more efficiently,” Shubhangi Garg told India Business Law Journal.

The team also comprised Yashika Jain, Soham Chakraborty and A***n Gupta.

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24/09/2026

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas recruits Rohan Jain and Ksh*tij Arora as partners, along with their team, to boost its corporate practice at the firm’s Delhi-NCR office.

Jain and Arora were both previously partners at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

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Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) recruits Rohan Jain and Ksh*tij Arora as partners, along with their team, to boost its corporate practice...

24/09/2026

India tightens e-commerce rules with the introduction of new disclosure, pricing and dark-pattern requirements in the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) (Amendment) Rules, 2026 that will take effect on 1 January 2027.

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India tightens e-commerce rules with the introduction of new disclosure, pricing and dark-pattern requirements in the Consumer Protection...

24/09/2026

India’s Supreme Court has, for the first time, laid down the test for attributing a guilty mind to a company. The recent judgment in Sanofi India Ltd v Central Bureau of Investigation (2026) will shape how companies in India are investigated and charged with offences.

Shankey Agrawal and Harsh Shukla of BMR Legal discuss how the judgment allows companies to be prosecuted without identifying an individual at the threshold, while establishing a three-stage test for attributing criminal intent to a company.

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Supreme Court’s Sanofi test reshapes attribution of corporate guilty mind and prosecution strategy in India ...

23/09/2026

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has invited public comments on draft rules, aiming to improve the corporate insolvency resolution process for personal guarantors.

Electronic comments must be submitted on the IBBI official website by 3 October 2026.

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The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has invited public comments on draft rules, aiming to improve the corporate insolvency...

23/09/2026

India’s emergence as a global business and technology hub has led multinational corporations to increasingly invest through two key greenfield models – global capability centres (GCCs), which build strategic enterprise capabilities, and data centres that represent long-term investment in digital infrastructure.

Sidharrth Shankar and Prakriti Jaiswal of JSA discuss the legal and regulatory considerations for establishing GCCs and data centres in India, including corporate structures, foreign ownership, employment and data governance, land acquisition, environmental approvals and power procurement.

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India’s legal framework for greenfield GCCs and data centres covers structuring, governance, compliance and investment rules ...

23/09/2026

A Supreme Court of India ruling has protected homebuyers from real estate developers passing on their time-extension penalties involving the Lotus projects in Noida, Uttar Pradesh state.

Senior advocate Dhruv Mehta, who appeared for the homebuyers, argued that levying the time-extension charges were penal in nature due to the developer’s actions. Hence, including such penal charges as part of the CIRP costs would be “unjust and misconceived”. The developer’s fault should not be borne by the homebuyers, he added.

The successful resolution applicant in the CIRP, represented by senior advocate Krishnendu Datta, supported the arguments of the homebuyers’ collective.

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A Supreme Court of India ruling has protected Lotus project homebuyers in Uttar Pradesh from developers passing on penalties

23/09/2026

Saurav Kumar and Swathi Sreenath to boost Argus’ Japan desk https://law.asia/argus-partners-japan-south-korea-desk/

Argus Partners has appointed Saurav Kumar as head of its Japan and South Korea desk, alongside Swathi Sreenath as a partner, working at the firm’s New Delhi office.

Both lawyers and their team previously worked at CMS IndusLaw.

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22/09/2026

Durga Priya Manda has joined Argus Partners as a partner in the dispute resolution and the technology and data privacy practices. She will be based in the firm’s New Delhi office.

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Durga Priya Manda has joined Argus Partners as a partner in the dispute resolution and the technology and data privacy practices...

22/09/2026

Balance investment, Climate-proofing in India’s next model BIT https://law.asia/india-model-bit-2026/

As the Indian government works to update its model bilateral investment treaty, arbitration expert Mikhail Behl, who has consulted with the Government of India’s apex policy think tank NITI Aayog on arbitration law reforms, warns accelerating climate regulation and obligations may mean conflict between investor protection and future environmental policy.

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