Legal Insights

Saraf, Khaitan guide L&T Power’s INR 6,889 cr divestment of thermal power asset to Torrent Power Saraf and Partners has advised Larsen & Toubro Power Development, a wholly owned L&T subsidiary, on the INR 6,889 crore sale of its 1,400 MW Nabha Power Plant, a supercritical coal plant in Punjab to Torrent Power, which was […]

ET JSA Boardroom Connect On 13 February in New Delhi, leading legal and governance leaders from sectors including infrastructure, healthcare, energy, real estate, manufacturing, FMCG and private equity gathered at the ETLegal JSA Boardroom Connect roundtable to examine how Indian companies can navigate heightened enforcement, fragmented regulation and digital risk in what participants repeatedly described

SC backs Karnataka’s decision to seize JSW Steel’s ₹128 crore performance bonds The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to stay the Karnataka government’s direction to banks to forfeit JSW Steel’s ₹128 crore performance securities. The state’s mines and geology director had issued the direction to banks citing the company’s failure to meet minimum production requirement of

Illustrative image From April 2027, a global reporting regime will require foreign platforms to share detailed transaction data with India, stripping offshore trading of the anonymity that once made it attractive and forcing both users and exchanges into a far more transparent system. The OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) enables automatic exchange of information between

Aakash undertakes in SC to secure 25.7 pc Byju’s shares in rights dispute New Delhi, The Aakash Educational Services Ltd (AESL) on Tuesday undertook in the Supreme Court that 25.7 per cent of the edutech major Byju’s stake in Aakash shall remain secured till the disposal of a pending petition before the National Company Law

Hemant Kumar The legal profession is in the midst of a profound transformation. Rapid digitalisation, emerging technologies, complex regulatory regimes and globalisation are reshaping not just legal practice, but what organisations expect from their legal teams and leaders. On 13–14 March 2026, the 3rd edition of the Global Legal Convention 2026 will take place at

Supreme Court refers challenges to DPDP Act to 5-judge bench New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday referred various petitions seeking scrapping of some sections of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 to a larger bench of five judges. However, a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant

NGT clears Great Nicobar infrastructure project, says adequate safeguards provided New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has cleared the proposed International Container Transhipment Terminal in Great Nicobar Island, saying adequate safeguards had been provided in the environmental clearance (EC) conditions. The eastern zonal bench of Kolkata, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, passed

Illustrative image In recent years, several new‑age tech companies have shown a sharp financial glow‑up in the year of their IPO or listing preparation, often driven by one‑off gains or accounting effects rather than a long profitability track record. While some companies like Groww, Meesho, PhysicsWallah showed genuine, multi‑year improvement in profitability or loss narrowing

Fresh legal snag may delay NSE’s long-awaited public debut Mumbai: India’s largest bourse, the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), has hit another roadblock in its decade-long journey to go public. A writ petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court challenging the no-objection certificate (NOC) issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of