The Weekly Read- Issue 01 · 21 June 2026
The market, read from where the mandate forms. INDIA MARKET ENTRY The 60-Day Ceiling: How the Fly-In, Fly-Out Cap Reshapes the India Cross-Border Legal Corridor A foreign firm running an India-seated arbitration from London or Singapore on a fly-in-fly-out basis now has sixty days a year to spend on the ground, and must name its […]
What the Legal-Tech Market Looks Like When No One Is Selling You Anything
By Prachi Shrivastava, Founding Advisor, Lawfinity Solutions A vendor has run its sales motion several hundred times. A mid-market or boutique buyer runs a serious legal-technology purchase once every few years. The vendor therefore enters the process with far more experience than the buyer. For the global boutique or mid-tier firm, this asymmetry carries a […]
The Chokepoint and the Variation Claim: Supply Shocks and the EPC Risk Shift in the Anglo-Indian Corridor
A cost shock at a maritime chokepoint does not stay in the procurement ledger. It travels down the contract, and on a long-gestation infrastructure project it arrives as a claim. The current disruption in the West Asian sea lanes is the live illustration. Voyage war-risk premiums for Gulf transits have risen sharply, polymer and carbon-input […]
India and London: The Corridor Travels in Disguise
First published on Bar and Bench. This has been an unusually loud season for India and London. London International Disputes Week drew a heavy Indian presence; the LCIA and its counterparts have run symposium after symposium across Indian cities, often with Indian Senior Counsel leading from the front; and barely a month passes without another […]
The Geometry of Related-Party Arbitrage: Unlocking Transnational Disputes in the Anglo-Indian Corridor
Bright lines invite structuring. That is a neutral observation about how legal frameworks behave: where a clear threshold is drawn, commercial engineering concentrates around it. India’s listing framework draws such lines for related-party transactions. Under the SEBI LODR Regulations, a related-party transaction above a materiality threshold (broadly, INR 1,000 crore or ten per cent of […]
The Rajesh Exports Auction: Mispricing Risk in Cross-Border Corporate Distress
A few weeks after SEBI unsealed its interim corporate governance order against gold processor Rajesh Exports Limited (REL), a secondary asset liquidation event deserves urgent institutional scrutiny. For an international law firm weighing India market entry through the corridor rather than through a desk, it is also a sharper worked example of SEBI reform’s cross-border […]
The India-London-Singapore arbitrability gap, and what it costs
A Kerala High Court ruling on 1 June restated what lawyers structuring India joint ventures already know: that shareholder deadlocks and the division of company assets fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of India’s National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) under Chapter XVI (Sections 241 and 242) of the Indian Companies Act, 2013, which governs statutory shareholder […]
Outside the Agreement: The Investment-Protection Mandate in the EU–India Corridor
The landmark EU-India free trade agreement, concluded on 27 January 2026, has radically reshaped the competitive dynamics of the India cross-border legal corridor. While the deal’s twenty chapters establish unified frameworks for digital trade, intellectual property, and public procurement, its investment chapter has been completely decoupled, marooned in a parallel Investment Protection Agreement (IPA) that […]
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 […]