by Majmudar & Partners | Feb 21, 2024 | Tax
Download .pdf India’s Finance Minister introduced a specific tax regime for virtual digital assets (“VDAs”) in the Finance Bill 2022. Section 2(47A) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the “IT Act”) was brought in and defines VDAs to mean any information or code or number or...
by Majmudar & Partners | Dec 14, 2023 | Disputes and Arbitration
A seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court has overruled the judgement of a five-judge bench rendered in April this year in N.N.Global Mercantile Pvt. Ltd. v M/s. Indo Unique Flame Ltd. And Ors., in which a 3:2 majority held that arbitration agreements on which...
by Majmudar & Partners | Dec 13, 2023 | General, Technology, Telecommunication and Media
Download .pdf Last month, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (the “MIB”) released the draft Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023 (the “Bill”) proposing a consolidated framework to regulate all modes of broadcast, including digital cable TV,...
by Majmudar & Partners | Dec 7, 2023 | Banking and Finance, General, Insolvency and Restructuring
Download .pdf In the recent case of Dilip B. Jiwrajka v. Union of India (Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1281 of 2021), the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court (the “SC”) upheld the constitutionality of Sections 95 to 100 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016...
by Majmudar & Partners | Nov 29, 2023 | Corporate/M&A, General, Securities Law
Download .pdf Last month, India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs (the “MCA”) notified the Companies (Prospectus and Allotment of Securities) Second Amendment Rules, 2023 (the “Amendment Rules”), that amended the Companies (Prospectus and Allotment of Securities) Rules,...
