Introduction The independent director is the cornerstone of modern corporate governance architecture. The premise is straightforward: a board that includes directors with no financial, professional, or personal relationship to the
Introduction The emergence of mandatory environmental, social, and governance disclosure as a legal requirement for Indian listed companies represents one of the most significant expansions of corporate reporting obligations since
Introduction Related party transactions occupy a uniquely contested space in corporate governance theory. On one hand, transactions between a company and its promoters, subsidiaries, or affiliates may be commercially necessary
Introduction The terms of service governing digital platforms and software-as-a-service products have become among the most read and least understood contractual instruments in contemporary commercial life. More significantly, they are
Introduction The enforceability of post-employment restrictions in India represents one of the most practically consequential and judicially unsettled areas of Indian contract law. The technology sector’s explosive growth, the proliferation
Introduction The doctrine of frustration has always occupied an uneasy position in contract law. Its function is to provide relief where supervening events, unforeseen at the time of contracting, render
Introduction Few provisions of Indian contract law have generated as sustained and contested a body of litigation as Section 74 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872. The question of when
Introduction The global disruptions wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic forced corporate lawyers, dealmakers, and courts across jurisdictions to confront a question that had long lurked at the edges of merger
Introduction The unfair contract terms problem in Indian law has a curious design flaw: the party most likely to be trapped in an exploitative standard-form contract is often not the
Introduction The terms of service governing an Indian user’s interaction with a digital platform can run to fifty pages of dense legal prose. The user, if she reads them at
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