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Venture Capital In India's Innovation Economy: Regulatory Architecture, Government Catalysts, And Comparative Legal Models

India's venture capital ecosystem has undergone a structural transformation from a growth-driven funding market into a regulated innovation economy shaped by securities law, foreign exchange controls...

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

Foreign Exchange Management (Guarantees) Regulations, 2026: A Brief Overview

Recently, the Reserve Bank of India notified the Foreign Exchange Management (Guarantees) Regulations, 2026, which replace the erstwhile Foreign Exchange Management (Guarantees) Regulations, 2000.

Saga Legal

SEBI Has Issued Terms And Conditions For DTs Carrying Out Activities Outside The Purview Of SEBI

SEBI vide Circular No. HO/17/11/12(3)2025-DDHS POD1/I/146/2025 dated 25.11.2025 ("DT Circular")1, has specified the terms and conditions for Debenture Trustees ("DTs") for carrying out activities outside...

Sagus Legal

Stewardship Code For Fund Managers And Funds Operating In GIFT City

On October 23, 2025, the IFSCA issued a Circular under the IFSCA (Fund Management) Regulations, 2025 (‘FM Regulations') setting out a stewardship code framework (‘Stewardship Code') for Fund Management Entities...

AP

AZB & Partners

AKP Banking & Finance Digest January 27, 2026

Worldwide Finance

AP

AK & Partners

Key Changes In The AIF Landscape In 2025

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Acuity Law

RBI Notifies Foreign Exchange Management (Guarantees) Regulations, 2026.

Sagus Legal

RBI Notifies RBI (Non-Banking Financial Companies - Concentration Risk Management) Amendment Directions, 2026

Sagus Legal

Compliance Reporting Formats For Specialized Investment Funds (SIFs) Issued By SEBI.

Sagus Legal

RBI (Non-Operative Financial Companies) (Amendment) Directions, 2025

AP

AZB & Partners

RBI (Trade Relief Measures) Directions, 2025

AP

AZB & Partners

Investment In Corporate Debt Securities By Persons Resident Outside India Through Special Rupee Vostro Account

AP

AZB & Partners

RBI Amends Foreign Exchange Management (Export Of Goods And Services) Regulations, 2015

AP

AZB & Partners

Modalities For Migration To Schemes Of AI-Only Funds And Relaxations To LVFs Under AIF Regulations

AP

AZB & Partners

RBI Releases FEMA 2026 Export-Import Trade Regulations: What Businesses Need To Know

India International

LS

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan

F&M - Dispute Resolution & ADR - Highlights 2025

India Litigation

Fox & Mandal

Facing An Enforcement Directorate (ED) Investigation? Here's What You Must Know

India Compliance

MC

MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

A Practical Way To Think About Risk-Based Due Diligence For Growing Businesses

Worldwide Commercial

IMC Group

RBI's Universal Bank Guidelines 2025: Key Strategic Shifts In Governance, Capital And Innovation

AP

AK & Partners

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Project Finance

Secured Lending

Alternative Investment Funds

Capital Adequacy/BASEL

SEBI Notifies Consequential Requirements For Amended Merchant Bankers Regulations

The Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") by way of circular dated 02.01.2026 ("MB Circular"), has specified the consequential requirements...

India Commercial

Sagus Legal

Net Worth Liquid Capital And Chinese Walls Under SEBI's New Merchant Banker Framework

India's merchant banking industry is entering a more demanding regulatory phase in which capital strength, liquid buffers and governance standards will matter as much as deal making credentials.

LP

Legitpro Law

Strengthening The Core: Key Changes In RBI's Commercial Bank Governance Directions 2025

The Reserve Bank of India's ("RBI") Commercial Banks – Governance Directions, 2025 ("Directions") mark a decisive shift in how Indian banks are expected...

India Commercial

AP

AK & Partners

RBI's Universal Bank Guidelines 2025: Key Strategic Shifts In Governance, Capital And Innovation

AP

AK & Partners

RBI Issues Revised Guidelines For Wholly Owned Subsidiaries (WOS) Of Foreign Banks – 2025

KS

King, Stubb & Kasiva

SEBI (Custodian) (Amendment) Regulations, 2025: Raising Standards For Custodians Of Securities

India Commercial

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

NBFC/CIC Classification Issue

MC

MAHESHWARI & CO. Advocates & Legal Consultants

AKP Banking & Finance Digest August 25, 2025

AP

AK & Partners

RBI Issues Draft Circular On Counterparty Credit Risk And Potential Future Exposure

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

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Debt Capital Markets

Unlocking New Frontiers: Canara Bank's Landmark Battle For Financial Creditor Status

The Canara Bank v. Vivek Kumar (Resolution Professional of AVJ Developers India Pvt. Ltd.)1 is a significant recent ruling that clarifies the status of banks in real estate insolvencies.

India Insolvency

ML

MZM Legal

MoF Introduced A Bill On The Securities Markets Code, 2025 In Lok Sabha To Consolidate Securities Laws.

The Securities Markets Code, 2025 was introduced in the Lok Sabha by the Ministry of Finance ("MoF") on 18.12.2025 as Bill No. 200 of 2025 ("Draft Code").

Sagus Legal

Supreme Court Held That EPF Dues Have Priority Over Secured Creditors Under SARFAESI Act

However, if there is a first charge statutorily created, dehors the non obstante clause conferring priority over other debts, the statutory charge would prevail

India Litigation

Sagus Legal

SEBI Introduces Modification In The Conditions Specified For Reduction In Denomination Of Debt Securities.

Sagus Legal

Should You Set Up An Entity In GIFT City

KS

King, Stubb & Kasiva

General Newsletter – January 2026

DL

DSK Legal

India's LEI Mandate For Borrowers

LP

Legitpro Law

A Regulatory Perspective On RBI Guidelines On Wholly Owned Subsidiaries: Is India Setting A New Benchmark In Foreign Bank Regulation?

AP

AK & Partners

RBI's New Non-Fund Based Credit Framework: Key Changes, Opportunities And Compliance Priorities

AP

AK & Partners

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Charges, Mortgages, Indemnities

Unlocking New Frontiers: Canara Bank's Landmark Battle For Financial Creditor Status

The Canara Bank v. Vivek Kumar (Resolution Professional of AVJ Developers India Pvt. Ltd.)1 is a significant recent ruling that clarifies the status of banks in real estate insolvencies.

India Insolvency

ML

MZM Legal

Redemption And Limitation In Usufructuary Mortgages: The Supreme Court's Clarification In Dalip Singh v. Sawan Singh

In a judgment dated 12 November 2025, the Supreme Court of India clarified the law governing redemption of usufructuary mortgages and the applicability of limitation in Dalip...

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

RERA's Iron Grip Strengthened: Courts Redefine Allottee Rights In Mortgages, Leases & Insolvency

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA), was enacted as a broad safeguard for India's purchasers, a group of consumers that has historically been exposed to the opaque and unaccountable...

India Real Estate

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

Default Is Default—Even On A Half-Disbursed Loan: NCLAT Clears Axis Bank's CIRP Trigger

India Insolvency

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

No Shortcut On Stamp Duty – Supreme Court Says Security Bonds By Debtors Are Mortgage Deeds

India Real Estate

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

Sagus Speaks - August 2025 | Part 1

India Commercial

Sagus Legal

AKP Corporate & Compliance Digest August 11, 2025

India Employment

AP

AK & Partners

Registration Bill 2025 - Impact On Finance And Real Estate Sectors

India Real Estate

AP

Argus Partners

Reserve Bank Of India Vide Notification Dated July 02, 2025, Has Issued Reserve Bank Of India (Pre-payment Charges On Loans) Directions, 2025

LF

Lex Favios

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Financial Services

India Economic Survey 2026

The Survey predicted that there is a 10-20% chance of a systemic shock - that may cause a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis in 2026. Financial and technological geopolitical stresses will promote one another.

AC

Aurtus Consulting LLP

Venture Capital In India's Innovation Economy: Regulatory Architecture, Government Catalysts, And Comparative Legal Models

India's venture capital ecosystem has undergone a structural transformation from a growth-driven funding market into a regulated innovation economy shaped by securities law, foreign exchange controls...

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

Unlocking New Frontiers: Canara Bank's Landmark Battle For Financial Creditor Status

The Canara Bank v. Vivek Kumar (Resolution Professional of AVJ Developers India Pvt. Ltd.)1 is a significant recent ruling that clarifies the status of banks in real estate insolvencies.

India Insolvency

ML

MZM Legal

An Overview Of The 30th Session Of The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change Conference Of Parties (Cop-30) Held At Belém, Brazil From November 10-21, 2025

India Environment

SA

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Emirates NBD'S Acquisition Of RBL Bank

India Commercial

A

Acuity Law

SEBI's Side-Pocketing Norms And The Political Economy Of Risk In India's AIF Market

AL

Aarna Law

Union Budget 2026: Big Bets In Tech

India Technology

I

CMS INDUSLAW

Foreign Exchange Management (Guarantees) Regulations, 2026: A Brief Overview

Saga Legal

2026: Risk Is The New Currency (Video)

India Compliance

mI

Counselect Services Pvt. Ltd.

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Latest Videos

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Investor Alert: SEBI Opens Doors To Scalable Co-Investments In AIFs (Podcast)

AP

AK & Partners

How Indians Can Legally Hold Foreign Currency Accounts At IFSCs (Video)

IL

IndiaLaw LLP

A Distinct Approach To Capital Investment: Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) (Video)

CP

Corporate Professionals

Leaders Of Tomorrow | Season 12 | Popsockets | JSA | ET Now | Ritwika Gupta (Video)

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JSA

Navigating The Funding Frontier: Insights For Startup Founders (Video)

Saga Legal

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