After Rajesh Exports: What Foreign Counsel Can Now Win Offshore
The Flashpoint On 3 June 2026, SEBI issued a 109-page interim ex-parte order against Rajesh Exports and its promoter-chairman, alleging that approximately INR 15.15 lakh crore ( $16.3m) which is about 99.8% of the revenue the company attributed to its subsidiaries between FY21 and FY25, was misrepresented. SEBI’s probe exposes a distinct jurisdictional trap: the […]
Counsel, Not Advocate: Foreign Law Firm India Market Entry After the May 2025 BCI Rules
An India legal market entry analysis: which routes are opened in India-seated arbitration by the rules, where the cross-border mandate margin now sits, and what a foreign law firm India strategy has to get right. The Flashpoint: India’s New Legal Market Entry Rules On 13 May 2025 the Bar Council of India (BCI) re-notified its […]
The 60-Day Ceiling: How the Fly-In, Fly-Out Cap Reshapes the India Cross-Border Legal Corridor
Corridor legal market intelligence on the fly-in, fly-out cap, the India desks now forming in Singapore, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur, and where the India-seated arbitration margin actually sits. What Does the Fly-In, Fly-Out Cap Require? Under the May 2025 BCI rules, the India legal market entry routes now diverge sharply on one point of operational […]
When NCLT Stalls, Singapore Firms Get the Call
Practitioners working India-linked distressed debt have understood for some time that Singapore offers a more reliable path when NCLT timelines become unworkable. What the Supreme Court did last week was say it on the record, in a suo motu proceeding, using the words grim and dismal, to describe a system where 383 approved resolution plans […]
The Hidden Friction Tax: How Documentation Gaps Slow Capital Deployment in India
By- Prachi Shrivastava and Abhinav Shukla This Article was first published in India Business Law Journal. India has the ambition, the capital, and the talent. What it still lacks is the paperwork infrastructure to move fast. Consider a thought experiment. Three early-stage companies — comparable in model, team quality, and market opportunity — are raising […]
What India Just Reminded Everyone Who Thought They Understood It
A Lawfinity note on dead letter assets, sovereign overhang, and where the next mandates are forming On February 13, 2026, a two-judge Supreme Court bench settled, with some finality, a question that thirty-eight lenders had been avoiding for about eight years. Spectrum, the bench said, is not yours. Not the companies’. Not the resolution applicants’. […]
GIFT City and the reinsurance mandate: what London and Singapore firms should be watching
The news about Lloyd’s entry into GIFT City has been framed almost entirely as a market access story. It is also, quietly, a dispute story and that is the part worth reading carefully. Lloyd’s of London is not a reinsurance company. It is a marketplace. Syndicates, brokers, capital pooled across Names and corporations whose balance […]
ANI v OpenAI is a copyright case; it’s also a masterclass in how mandates are lost
ANI v OpenAI is instructive, not primarily as a copyright case, but as a case study in how disputes form. In July 2024, ANI (India’s largest multimedia news agency) wrote to OpenAI asking it to stop using their content to train ChatGPT. OpenAI continued. By October 2024, ANI’s domain had been added to an opt-out […]
Introducing VETT and SIGNA – The New Standard Bearers of Signal-Based Law & Brand Thinking
Author: Lawfinity Solutions — In any market that is noisy, structurally ambiguous and aesthetically underdeveloped, one thing becomes premium: signal. Not information. Not content. Not chatter.But, signal. The Indian legal sector has reached that inflection point. At Lawfinity Solutions, our work for years has been to build Signal Architecture for lawyers and founder-led firms. We’ve […]
The Consultation That Never Happened: What Legal Intake Reveals About Practice Evolution
Something I posted on LinkedIn this week sparked an unexpectedly heated conversation in legal circles. The observation was straightforward: When lawyers charge “reading fees” before they can assess whether a matter has merit, it often signals a gap in pattern recognition rather than professional rigor. The response was… instructive. Senior practitioners explained why this was […]