Introduction It is rightly said that the future belongs to our children and the digital arena is their new playground. The much-awaited draft on Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (“DPDP Rules”) notified by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is a welcoming act as it has emphasises on the protection of minors from heinous crimes and privacy violations in the cyberspace. It has explored the rule of verifiable parental consent before obtaining information…
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SEBI’s Strategic Blueprint for Hassle-free AIF Liquidation and In-Specie Asset Distribution
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SEBI’s Strategic Blueprint for Hassle-free AIF Liquidation and In-Specie Asset Distribution Introduction The Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) kept its eyes peeled over the emergence of Alternative Investment Funds (“AIFs”), and it’s unfolding as a higher-risk private pool of funds. The quicksand, however, was the unliquidated AIFs [1] (investments that are not sold due to lack of liquidity, which may be due to sectoral changes or pending litigation [2]) that pinched hard on…
SEBI’s Rumor Control Framework: Navigating Market Integrity Amongst Disclosure Challenges
On 9 July 2024, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) issued a Master Circular titled Surveillance of the Securities Market (“Circular”), marking a significant development in the regulatory framework governing unauthenticated news dissemination. This Circular builds upon and further refines SEBI’s existing framework under Regulation 30(11) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure) Regulations, 2015 (“LODR”). Regulation 30(11) of LODR which also referred to as the Rumour Verification Regulation, mandates the top…
DISSECTING THE RIGHTS ISSUE PROCESS: IS IT THE GAME CHANGER COMPANIES WISHED FOR?
[By Rudra Shandilya and Disha Chaturvedi] The authors are students at Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam Introduction Perceived by the common law from the nineteenth century, pre-emptive rights are allowed to the current shareholders in an entity, in proportion to their existing holdings, so that they could take part in the fresh proposal of new shares by the entity. This right is codified/arranged by the Companies Act, 2013, and the term used for issuance of such shares is…
INDIA’S TRYST WITH VODAFONE: A CONUNDRUM
Bio: Mr. Swarnendu Chatterjee is an Advocate-On-Record, Supreme Court of India, and a Senior Associate at L&L Partners, Delhi. The series of never-ending court trials of the cases affecting the relations with foreign companies don’t seem to be ending any sooner. Every other day we witness yet another turn of events taking place in some of the other famous but old cases. The recent highlight has been the Vodafone arbitration case against the Indian government. The…