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[By Nipun Kumar] The author is a student at the ILS Law College, Pune. Competition law and Intellectual Property Rights (hereinafter “IPR”) are two policies that have a common objective of ‘consumer welfare’ and ‘efficient allocation of resources’. Modern understanding of these two disciplines is that both the laws work in conformity to each other in order to ‘bring new and better technologies, products, and services to the…
[By Sushant Kumar and Vanshaj Dhiman] The authors are students at the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. The contract of guarantee is an essential part of the restructuring process of the corporate debtor. It is a settled position in contract law that the guarantor’s liability arises as soon as the borrower defaults in making payment of the debt. However, the advent of the Insolvency and…
[By Shubham Nahata] The author is a student at the Hidayatullah National Law University. Introduction Post the enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016(“Code”), the credit recovery mechanism in India has witnessed substantial growth in terms of improved resolution opportunities for ailing entities. However, there still exist certain anomalies in its jurisprudential framework which need correction either in the form of affirmative action by the legislature or…
[By Aayush Akar and Aarushi Prabhakar] The authors are students at the National Law University, Odisha. The directors of a company hold a fiduciary role and are required to conduct the operation of the company in a way that is desirable to the interests of the company. Non-executive or independent directors are not responsible for day-to-day businesses and are generally active in the strategy and decision-making practices. The…
[By Akshat Dangayach] The author is a student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. In September of this year, the Government of India notified the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2020 in the official gazette. The move, which has been welcomed by corporations across the spectrum, comes in consonance with the recent series of reforms in response to the growing economic inconsistency in the country, especially in…
[Giri Aravind] The author is a student at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies. Introduction On December 9th, the Federal Trade Commission, (FTC) as well as dozens of states in the US, sued Facebook alleging that the company was involved in anti-competitive conduct by illegally maintaining its social network monopoly. The suit focuses on two major aspects – anticompetitive acquisitions and anticompetitive platform conduct. The federal regulator…
[By Tanya Rathod] The author is a student at the National Law University, Odisha. Layers after layers of retrospection, judicial pronouncements, and amendments are the key to make any legislative policy a successful one. GST (Goods and Service Tax) regime is always on a path to unravel, widening the scope of jurisprudential interpretation. One such attempt was made by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India recently, in the…
[By Vanshika Chansoria and Raj Aryan] Vanshika is a student at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal, and Raj is a student at the Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida. Introduction International trade is the movement of commodities, goods, services, and intellectual property across the national borders of one’s own country. Trade has been taking place across borders since the time when there was no form of formal body…