CAM authors collaborate for this article with our Guest Authors – Michael J. Cochran, Partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton and Gabrielle Gollomp , Associate at Dentons _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...
September 28, 2020The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the society in an unanticipated and unprecedented way. To contain its spread, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India vide its order dated March 24, ...
July 2, 2020The disruption that Covid-19 has brought about is for everyone to see. Businesses across all sectors have been severely impacted due to the several versions on lockdown orders issued by the central an...
June 25, 2020After more than three months of lockdown, there is no denying that the Indian economy has been impacted. This is also evidenced by the stimulus packages announced by the Government of India, in an att...
June 24, 2020Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. – John Maxwell Covid-19 has seen the legal landscape leapfrog into digital courts, electronic filings and asynchronous video hearings. The change...
June 22, 2020To battle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the central government and the various state governments imposed a nationwide lockdown in India. Additionally, to arrest the spread of the pandemic, government...
June 15, 2020Across India, each subsequent phase of the lockdown has permitted a responsible increase in economic activity. As companies re-start their operations, they continue to assess the impact of Covid-19 pa...
June 2, 2020In the wake of the pandemic Covid-19, many legal and regulatory modifications have been undertaken in the country to facilitate compliances by the business houses as well as ease of doing business. Re...
May 11, 2020The Companies Act, 2013 does not contemplate shareholder meetings being held electronically. However, as social distancing becomes de rigueur and the temporary lockdown has been extended to May 3, 202...
April 29, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has literally brought the world to a standstill. Large scale infections have resulted in lockdowns across the globe. At this critical juncture, testing continues to remain the mo...
April 21, 2020Secretarial compliances, periodic reporting and disclosure requirements, programmed into the DNA of listed companies, often proceed seamlessly following protocols defined by the legal regime an...
April 17, 2020Commercial and legal impact In the previous part of this publication, we had set out an overview of the current market scenario and economic slowdown across key global markets, in view of factors such...
April 10, 2020The Finance Bill, 2020 (“Bill”) was presented as the Union Budget on February 1, 2020 (“Budget”) and then introduced in the Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha) – it was finally passed on M...
March 30, 2020Overview of current markets During the morning trading session on March 23, 2020, the S&P BSE Sensex crashed 2,991.85 points (10%) to hit 26,924.11, while the Nifty 50 fell 842.45 points (9.63%)...
March 30, 2020COVID-19 is the latest pandemic after cholera, the bubonic plague, smallpox, NIPAH, ZIKA and influenza-SARS, etc., to have accosted the world. A more aggressive variant of human coronaviruses that cau...
March 23, 2020The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a “pandemic” on March 11, 2020. The outbreak and the rapid spread of COVID-19 has sent shock waves across global markets. It has dis...
March 18, 2020Lawyers are generally very conservative – so it may sound a bit alarmist to hear us say “the world is ending!” At the time of writing, India is coming to grips with the terrifying ‘Se...
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