Category: Corporate

Guiding Businesses

How a foreign national can start and register company in India?

  Amy, a Czechican, is an accountant- 9 to 7 desk job- and loves travelling. Like many of us, she doesn’t enjoy the work but is working as it pays her bills. Deep inside, Amy wants to set up a business and get her freedom back. Amy visits India on vacation- her business mind follows her wherever she goes. She arrives…
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What challenges are driving corporate legal towards matter management?

Matter Management Matter management entails corporate legal work, which is expansive than case management. Managing documents and contracts also form a part of matter management. Matter management process encompasses different aspects of matter like the various class of legal work, attorneys assigned to the case, allocating resources, and other similar aspects. These aspects are monitored,…
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GENERAL COUNSEL AND THE NEED FOR CLM

THE CHANGING PROFILE OF A GENERAL COUNSEL. General Counsel in the current time has vast complex responsibilities. They make sure that the firm gets into the least amount of unnecessary risks. They have a profile that makes it important to act increasingly as an advisor to the CEO for legal and business terms. A lawyer…
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Contract Management In The Cloud

Contract management doesn’t have to be cumbersome and a hassle for the organization. Usually, contract management is associated with stacked up files gathering dust somewhere in the organization, and people rummaging through the files in the hope of getting hold of vital information that the organization needs for a particular purpose- dispute or monitoring deadlines.…
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How is technology creating opportunities in the legal community?

Legal community and technology The legal community has aversed to technology mostly. While laptops have substituted typewriters, in the bigger scheme of things, this is minuscule or, at best, the legal community has witnessed a negligible change.  The legal field has continued to operate in the manner as it has been doing in the past.…
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ADR In The Asia Pacific: Spotlight On Singapore

  ADR in Singapore From the early 1990s, the Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism has had a long-standing lineage in Singapore. The access to it since then has improved significantly; parties have resorted to alternatives to court litigation with ease and are actively supported to do so. Asia, in general, has been a significant contributor to…
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LEGAL IMPEDIMENTS IN THE DIGITAL SPACE: ASPECTS SUCH AS DIGITAL CONTRACT, DIGITAL SIGNATURE AND OTHER ISSUES

In the legal field, the digital space has given birth to plenty of electronic agreements between several overseas businesses. However, some issues occur in the execution of such e-agreements. These issues could be with regards to the mental state of the party and his competence to enter into a contract. Since e- contracts take place…
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Suspension of IBC: Is it reasonable? What are the alternatives for MSMES to recover their dues?

SUSPENSION OF IBC: IS IT REASONABLE? WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES FOR MSMES TO RECOVER THEIR DUES? The COVID- 19 outbreak caused an unprecedented economic slowdown around the world, and India is no exception. The profits of MSMEs have plummeted, and some have even ceased operations. To ease the burden on the MSMEs, the government of…
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In the last three decades of SEBI’S existence, there have barely been any convictions for insider trading in India. Does it indicate that stringent laws are required including augmenting the element of criminal liability to the existing laws?

  With the emergence of Capital Markets in the late 1970s, the government realized that several malpractices had also surfaced which aimed at exploiting the loopholes of the market. This realization led the government to introduce a body to help regulate the market and keep malpractices at bay. In 1992, the Securities and Exchange Board…
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The Impact of Coronavirus on the Business Sectors Worldwide

The outbreak of the coronavirus in late 2019 and 2020 has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organisation. The entire world is facing a threat to the global fortunes through the recently emerged virus affecting the human body. Most economists assume that a worldwide recession is already underway, a synchronized downturn that is…
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