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Twitter Deal: Stakeholders’ Interest in the shadow of Shareholders’ Supremacy?

June 13, 2022

[Priyanshi Jain and Nehal Misra] The authors are students of Institute of Law, Nirma University.   Introduction Elon Musk, governing the tech fiefdom, has recently signed a deal to buy Twitter. The deal has been closed at $44 billion.  Since the finalization of deal a contrasting relationship has been developed between the tech mogul and Twitter. To begin with, he has criticized Twitter’s board over past performances and has even trolled...

Analysing the Legitimacy of Auctioning of Secured Assets in an ‘As is, Where is, Whatever is’ Manner: A Call for Adopting the Doctrine of Caveat Venditor – Part II

June 10, 2022

[Sourav Paul] The author is a student of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. Tracing the Judicial Approach to Sale of Secured Assets: A Marked Shift Towards the Doctrine of Caveat Venditor Traditionally, the Indian courts have applied the caveat emptor doctrine while adjudicating the on the part of the secured creditors. The Indian courts adopted this position, i.e., to protect the secured creditors, primarily because it...

Analysing the Legitimacy of Auctioning of Secured Assets in an ‘As is, Where is, Whatever is’ Manner: A Call for Adopting the Doctrine of Caveat Venditor – Part I

June 10, 2022

[Sourav Paul] The author is a student of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. Introduction The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (‘SARFAESI Act’) is one of the prominent laws in the long list of debt recovery and restructuring legislation enacted by the Indian Parliament. While introducing the Bill, the then Finance Minister said, “[t]his Bill is essentially for securitisation...

RBI’s One-Cap Rule on IPO Financing – Should it be for All?

May 19, 2022

[Mehak Jain and Aditi Ghosh] The authors are students of Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. Introduction Post Covid-19, there has been a regime shift in terms of investing in IPOs because of the frenzy created by newer investors in the market. IPO financing is a tool majorly used by High Networth Individuals (‘HNIs’) to leverage funds for a short-period of time for the purpose of investing in IPOs....

Regulating the Generic Drugs Market: Eliminating the difference between Branded and Unbranded Generics

May 4, 2022

[By Mansi Subramaniam & Sanigdh Budhia]  The authors are students at the Gujarat National Law University.  Introduction The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry has been transformed greatly in the past few years with the incoming of various companies and brands. It is one of the largest markets in the world, both in terms of volume and value. One of the unique features of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry is the existence...

The Widening Ambit of Moratorium Under the IBC

May 4, 2022

[By Gayathri Balasubramanian] The author is a student at the Christ (Deemed to be) University, Bangalore. Introduction: The concept of moratorium is one of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code’s (the Code) most fundamental aspects. It is provided for under section 14 of the Code and is considered as a crucial concept which effectively brings to halt any simultaneous proceedings brought against the corporate debtor during the corporate insolvency...

Section 29A(h) of IBC : SC Resolves Conundrum.

May 4, 2022

[By Vaishnavi Patel & Himangini Mishra]  The authors are students at the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar.  Introduction On 18th January 2022, the Supreme Court in its landmark judgment, Bank of Baroda and Anr. v. MBL infrastructures Limited clarified the scope of ineligibility of a personal guarantor as a Resolution Applicant (“RA”) under section 29A(h) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“Code”) . The court held that guarantee...

Term Sheet: To Be (Binding) Or Not To Be?

May 4, 2022

[By Aditi Sheth] The author is a student at the National Law School of India University. This paper argues that courts must not overrule the explicit intention of parties on the binding value of their term sheet by finding intention in the performance/non-performance of the conditions precedent (“CPs”) clause. It borrows from law and economics jurisprudence to support this claim. Introduction Commercially sophisticated parties enter into term sheets...

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