India: Corporate and Company Law

The introduction of mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 (“CA, 2013”) represented a significant departure from the voluntary model that had previously governed social spending by Indian corporations.

The Supreme Court of India, by its judgment dated 27 May 2026, allowed the appeal filed by Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC (Amazon) and set aside the orders of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) dated 13 June 2022 and the order of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) dated 17 December 2021.

India’s digital payments landscape / ecosystem has grown exponentially and at a pace that regulators struggled to match. The rules governing automatic recurring charges remained scattered across multiple directives issued at different times.

The Delhi High Court has ruled that an acknowledgement letter containing an arbitration clause, signed by only one party and lacking evidence of mutual consent, cannot constitute a valid arbitration agreement under Section 7 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.

India's regulatory landscape for financial record-keeping has undergone a quiet but consequential transformation over the past several years. The migration of books of accounts from physical ledgers to cloud-hosted platforms and SaaS-based enterprise resource planning systems has dramatically altered not just how financial data is stored, but where it resides and that question of where has become a matter of acute legal consequence.

The Supreme Court of India (SC) set aside the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) penalty order dated 17 December 2021 (CCI Order) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) judgment dated 13 June 2022 in Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC v Competition Commission of India & Ors.

The Central Government, exercising its powers conferred by Section 52(1) read with clauses (j) and (q) of Section 52(2) of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 (Act 1 of 2010)...

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When Parliament reduces the punishment for an offence, a question that immediately arises is whether those already facing prosecution for that offence receive the benefit of the reduction in punishment/penal consequences.