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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]