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Investment

Major Clauses of a Shareholders' Agreement Decoded

Unlike regular agreements such as services agreements, lease agreements, employment contracts etc. which the parties normally enter into in their usual course of business, Share Subscription Agreement (SSA), Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) and Shareholder’s Agreement (SHA) are one such category of agreements which are not executed on regular intervals and can be said to be highly technical as these agreements tend to regulate the legal relationship between multiple stakeholders like new investor or investors, existing investor or investors, other shareholders, founder or founders of the investee company and the investee company.
09 May 2023
Restructuring & Insolvency

An Unfair Code for Personal Guarantors

Introduction The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (“IBC”) was enacted in 2016 to provide a stimulus to the insolvency and bankruptcy process in India, which had not been performing as per the desired pace due to the lack of effective mechanism in the previous legislations. The IBC is a comprehensive legislation enacted with an aim to consolidate the laws relating to insolvency, liquidation and bankruptcy process of companies, partnership firms and individuals and to ensure the resolution in a time bound manner for maximisation of value of assets and balance the interests of all stakeholders.
30 January 2023
Investment

REVAMP OF OVERSEAS INVESTMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

The Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) in consultation with the Government of India (“GoI”), has recently revamped the regulatory framework governing the overseas direct investment (“ODI”) made by residents in India. The GoI has brought in Foreign Exchange Management (Overseas Investment) Rules, 2022 and the RBI has issued Foreign Exchange Management (Overseas Investment) Directions, 2022, and Foreign Exchange Management (Overseas Investment) Regulations, 2022 (collectively referred to as “New ODI Framework”) which will subsume the existing regulations namely, Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Any Foreign Security) Regulations, 2004 and the Foreign Exchange Management (Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property Outside India) Regulations, 2015 (collectively referred to as “Former ODI Norms”). The New ODI Framework will come into effect on August 22, 2022.
03 October 2022
Press Releases

Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors accelerates growth with a new office in Mumbai along with a partner induction

Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors has entered the financial capital of the country by opening its office in Mumbai with the joining of Apoorva Chandra as a Partner. An alumnus of NLUJ, Apoorva mainly focuses on General Corporate & Commercial advisory, Private Equity, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Due Diligences, Commercial Contracts and Real Estate. Apoorva regularly advises his clients on a plethora of complex legal issues, ranging from company laws and other allied laws, real estate laws and foreign exchange laws, amongst others.
02 September 2022
Projects, energy & natural resources

Electricity regulator continues to reign supreme for now

Authored by Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Vedant Kumar, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
07 December 2021
Projects, energy & natural resources

Captive generation: APTEL breaks a few chains

Authored by Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Anura Gupta, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
07 December 2021
Projects, energy & natural resources

NCLT proper forum for power purchase agreement insolvency

Authored by Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Vedant Kumar, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
07 December 2021
Restructuring & Insolvency

IBC Brief – August, 2021

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which replaces the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021 has been passed by both Houses of Parliament. The bill further amends the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, by inter alia, introducing Prepacked Insolvency Resolution Process (PPIRP) for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The proposed amendment enables the government to notify the threshold of default not exceeding Rs 1 crore for initiation of  PPIRP. Some authors argue that this scope should be widened.
08 September 2021
Projects, energy & natural resources

Farm protests put electricity bill in jeopardy

Authored by Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Vedant Kumar, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors.
08 September 2021
Projects, energy & natural resources

Reform agenda on the cards in new electricity policy

Authored by Mani Gupta and Vedant Kumar, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors.
08 September 2021
Projects, energy & natural resources

The power of the budget to reform

Authored by Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Anura Gupta, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors
08 September 2021
Projects, energy & natural resources

Keeping the power on during insolvency

Authored by Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Vedant Kumar
07 September 2021
Projects, energy & natural resources

Politics and economics spark discord in discom privatization

Authored by Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Anura Gupta
07 September 2021
Projects, energy & natural resources

Coal fired power plants are still smoking

Authored by Abhishek Nath Tripathi and Anura Gupta
07 September 2021
Corporate and commercial

Prohibiting Chinese imports may not bring advantages

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Anura Gupta
21 October 2020
Projects, energy and natural resources

Electric vehicles charged up by policy intervention

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Anura Gupta
21 October 2020
Projects, energy and natural resources

Electricity Bill lights path but sparks controversy

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Narayan Gupta Published at India Business Law Journal
21 October 2020

Powering up government efforts under lockdown

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Mani Gupta
15 July 2020

COVID-19 may power down the energy sector

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Mani Gupta
15 July 2020

Understanding the reasons behind discom stress

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Anura Gupta
15 July 2020

The solution for the rooftop solar revolution

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Mani Gupta
15 July 2020

Are electric vehicles sparking into life at last?

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Anura Gupta
15 July 2020
Power, energy and natural resources

Energy DRM adds more confusion than clarity

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Mani Gupta
15 July 2020

Enforcing PPA: Guarding against unilateral change

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Anura Gupta
15 July 2020

Ideas for government to reform ailing power sector

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Anura Gupta
15 July 2020

Insolvency code: Judicial trends

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi and Avantika Shukla
15 July 2020

Gig Economy, Growing Economy

Authored by Narayan Gupta and Mr. Anand S. Jha
15 July 2020
Power, energy and natural resources

COVID-19: Impact on power generation companies!

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi & Anura Gupta
11 June 2020
Employment

Renewed Focus on MAC and MAE clauses in light of COVID-19

Authored by Mani Gupta and Sajal Mendiratta
11 June 2020
Corporate and commercial

Covid-19 Series: Phase I of Relief Measures

15 July 2020
Corporate and Commercial

A pandemic from China to India: Can Indian Financial System keep up?

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi & Narayan Gupta
11 June 2020
Corporate and commercial

Padhega India, Badhega Ed-tech!

Authored by Mani Gupta & Anubhav Tiwari
11 June 2020
Corporate and Commercial

Real Estate’s Unending Hardship – How COVID-19 is worsening the Crisis?

Authored by Mani Gupta & Santosh Pandey
09 June 2020
Corporate and Commercial

(Dis)Balancing the Scales: Impact of COVID-19 on Employment Issues

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi & Rajat Kumar
09 June 2020
Corporate and Commercial

Court Refuses to Restrain Encashment of Letter of Credit Due to COVID-19 Lockdown

Authored by Mani Gupta and Shelja Pradhan
09 June 2020
Corporate and Commercial

Impact of COVID-19 on MSME sector - Where to go from here?

Authored by Vedant Kumar & Abhishek Tripathi
09 June 2020
Corporate and Commercial

Neighbours, Keep Out!

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi & Narayan Gupta
15 July 2020
Corporate and Commercial

Impact of COVID-19 on the Roads Sector in India

Authored by Mani Gupta & Vedant Kumar
09 June 2020
Corporate and Commercial

Frustrating Times? Contracts in the Times of COVID

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi & Mani Gupta
09 June 2020
Corporate and Commercial

Force Majeure in Construction Contracts

Authored by Abhishek Tripathi & Anubhav Tiwari
09 June 2020