The India Practice That Is Facing the Wrong Direction: Reconfiguring Spain
Watch in 1 minute video here. This blog was first published in the Daily Jus which is a publication by Jus Mundi. THE AUTHOR: Prachi Shrivastava, Founding Advisor at Lawfinity Solutions The EU-India Free Trade Agreement was concluded five months ago at Hyderabad House, New Delhi. For Spain’s leading independent law firms, the announcement came […]
Client AI-Use Ready Reckoner
A Lawfinity Friday resource for cross-border counsel Watch in 1 minute video here A recurring theme in our conversations with law firm clients this year has been frustration – not with AI itself, but with what clients do with it mid-matter. Lawyers describe clients arriving with AI-drafted question lists nobody understands, AI-generated summaries substituting for […]
No Material Impact, Until It Is: What India’s Disclosure Doctrine Means for Cross-Border Creditors
Watch in 1 minute video here When a listed company tells its exchanges that a regulatory action will have no impact on its financial stability or debt-servicing ability, that statement is tested against exactly one thing at the moment it is made: the facts then available to the board. It is tested against something else […]
Freshfields’ Pay Overhaul: A Margin Signal for the India Corridor
Watch in 1 minute video here Freshfields’ sweeping compensation restructuring has been analysed across the legal press primarily as an internal partnership crisis. The magic circle giant executed a performance-based overhaul that stripped equity points away from the firm’s legacy European core, triggering partner exits and equity downgrades across London, Paris, and Germany. The stated […]
The India-UAE Corridor’s $600 Million Lesson in Reading a Settlement Correctly
Watch in 1 minute video here Bank of Baroda has agreed to pay $600 million (roughly INR 5,700 crore), or close to 28% of its FY26 net profit, to the joint administrators of NMC Health – the UAE hospital group whose 2020 collapse exposed billions in previously unrecorded debt. The underlying claim, seeking $5.4 billion, […]
What an $800 Million ICSID Award Against Türkiye Actually Maps in India
Watch 1 minute video here An ICSID tribunal has ordered Türkiye to pay roughly $800 million to Akfel Commodities and I-Systems Global over the state’s 2016 seizure of Akfel Group, then Türkiye’s largest private gas importer, taken in the aftermath of the failed coup on allegations of Gülen-movement links. The tribunal adopted the claimants’ quantum […]
Two Tracks, One Policy: What the Sun Pharma Financing Signals About Who Is Exposed
Watch 1 minute video here State Bank of India has finalised a $1 billion tranche inside the syndicate financing Sun Pharmaceutical Industries’ $11.75 billion all-cash acquisition of Organon & Co., alongside Citigroup, JPMorgan, and MUFG. The deal itself is a genuine milestone with an Indian pharmaceutical major moving into the global top 25 on the […]
Bypassing the Tariff and Tax Squeeze: Structural Positioning After UK-India FTA Implementation and GIFT City Liberalisation
Watch 1 minute video here The Ministry of Finance’s notification of Rules of Origin under the India-UK FTA arrived in the same window as a full TDS exemption on aircraft and ship lease rentals routed through GIFT City, and a fresh wave of Section 148 notices reopening FPI books for retrospective audit. None of these […]
The Multi-Jurisdictional Entry: Why Substantive Enforcement Rules Vary Across the Five Core Trade Blocs
Watch in 1 minute here Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd v Fertitta Entertainment [2026] EWHC 1392 (Comm) and the SCCA’s 967-case appellate audit landed within weeks of each other. Neither is a surprise on its own terms. Read together, they confirm what most cross-border disputes practices already price into their advice informally but rarely state as […]
What Firms Are Really Paying For, and Why It’s Worth Naming
Watch in one-minute-video here. Recent compensation data across the Am Law 50 highlights a sharp spike in specialised executive overhead: the newly minted class of “Chief AI Officers” (CAIOs) and “Directors of Legal AI Innovation.” Base salaries for these non-revenue-producing leadership roles are tracking at a market premium, consistently commanding between $350,000 and $450,000, with […]