Introduction The debate about how to constrain the market power of dominant digital platforms has generated a wide menu of potential remedies — from behavioural obligations (prohibiting specific practices) to
Introduction Market definition is the analytical foundation of competition law. Before a competition authority can assess whether an enterprise is dominant, whether a merger reduces competition, or whether an agreement
Introduction Public procurement — the government’s purchase of goods, services, and works from private suppliers — accounts for approximately 20% of India’s GDP, making it one of the largest single
Introduction Gun-jumping — the implementation of a merger before receipt of regulatory clearance from competition authorities — is a compliance risk that deal teams in India systematically underestimate. In a
Introduction The traditional image of price-fixing — competitors meeting in a hotel room to carve up markets and fix prices — is increasingly anachronistic in the digital economy. Algorithmic pricing,
Introduction Self-preferencing — the practice by which a vertically integrated platform operator gives preferential treatment to its own products and services over competing products offered through its platform — has
Introduction The Competition (Amendment) Act 2023 represents the most comprehensive overhaul of India’s competition law framework since the Competition Act 2002 itself. Coming after years of review — the Competition
Introduction India’s push to internationalise the rupee and expand bilateral trade settlement in local currencies — most dramatically accelerated by the geopolitical pressures following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Introduction The rise of the “finfluencer” — the financial influencer who dispenses investment advice, stock tips, and market commentary to mass social media audiences — is among the more consequential
Introduction Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) products — short-term, interest-free (or low-interest) instalment credit typically offered at the point of sale — have grown at extraordinary speed in India’s consumer