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Company Law

Decriminalisation Under the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026: Reform by Reclassification or Governance by Omission?

Tanishka Mishra and Tanay Salwe On 23 March 2026, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 (“the Bill”) in the Lok Sabha and suggested a lot of changes in the Companies Act, 2013 and the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008. The Bill is sent directly to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) […]

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Intellectual Property

Section 4A of the Draft Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2020: A Legislative Blunder Endorsing IPR Monopoly and Disrupting Balance

Yash Raj and Smriti Shukla This post has been revised to properly acknowledge the contributions to the argument made by Dr. Vikas Kathuria. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs [“MCA”] in February 2020, released in the public domain, the Draft Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2020[1] [“the Bill”] based on the report submitted in July, 2019 by the Competition Law […]