Inbound India Investment: Domestic Forum Lock-Ins Across New Saudi and UAE Treaty Models
Watch in 1 min video here India’s bilateral investment protection treaties are becoming faster to invoke, yet less useful for the specific category of dispute most likely to arise. The bilateral investment promotion and protection agreement with Saudi Arabia, cleared by the Union Cabinet in late September 2026, requires foreign investors to pursue domestic legal […]
Regulating How Global Law Firms Describe Their India Desks
Hear me talk about it here Since the Bar Council of India (BCI) notified its revised registration rules on 13 May 2025, the primary question international law firms have put to their Indian advisers is whether to formally register. That question tiptoes around the bigger risk, as the regulatory enforcement record since August 2025 demonstrates. […]
Why Seoul and Tokyo bring India’s Largest Inbound Capital Markets Mandates
Hear me talk about it here Latham & Watkins acted as international legal counsel on Hyundai Motor India’s $3.3 billion initial public offering in October 2024. It was the largest IPO in Indian corporate history and the second-largest globally that year. Its client was not Hyundai Motor India; it was Hyundai Motor Company, the South […]
Revenue Per Lawyer Asymmetries Across US, UK, and India Desks
Hear me talk about it here Cross-border legal strategy across international corridors is governed by an economic metric that pitch books rarely mention: the Revenue Per Lawyer (RPL) differential between market cohorts. While market commentary routinely assumes that lower Indian billing rates simply reflect a lower cost base, the underlying financial metrics reveal a different […]
Why India Rejects the Singapore and Asian Alliance Model
Hear me talk about it here Across Asia’s financial centers, the relationship between a local law firm and an international firm carries a statutory license and a defined regulatory classification. Singapore’s Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) regulates five distinct collaboration and foreign-entry structures for international practices. In India, equivalent cross-border arrangements provoke Bar Council show-cause […]
De-Dollarisation Risks in US, UAE, and India Corridors
Watch in 1 min video here Since 1 October 2026, an Indian export invoiced or settled in rupees has twelve months to realise. The same export invoiced in any other currency has nine months. The three-month differential was introduced by the 22 September amendment to the Foreign Exchange Management (Export and Import of Goods and […]
The India–Singapore Referral Gap: What Happens When Clients Go Direct
Hear me talk about it here Market standing in cross-border legal corridors relies on a two-way recognition economy: foreign partners nominate domestic counsel, and domestic partners nominate foreign specialists. When global sponsors and corporate acquirers bypass foreign intermediaries to instruct local law firms directly, this recognition circuit breaks down at both ends. This recognition infrastructure […]
Where Project Risk Gets Decided in US, Middle East, and India Projects
Watch in 1 min video here A project passes through four decision points between announcement and operation. In Indian infrastructure, the point at which commercial risk is actually assessed has moved, and the legal work has not moved with it. Private-sector project announcements in India more than doubled over the three years to FY26, rising […]
Winning Upstream Structuring Mandates in the UAE–India Corridor
Hear me talk about it here Cross-border M&A transactions are traditionally described as having two ends: the investor’s home jurisdiction and the target market. Recent transaction filings reveal that a substantial proportion of inbound growth, joint venture, and buyout deals are actually three-legged. Sitting between the primary sponsor and the operational asset is a holding […]
Global Firm Strategy: Delivery Model Friction Across US, UK, and India Desks
Watch in 1 min video here H-1B cap registrations by India’s six largest IT services firms fell 92 per cent for fiscal 2027, from 21,919 to 1,763. The obvious reading is a story about Indian outsourcing and US immigration policy. The wider data cuts against it. IBM’s registrations fell 95.6 per cent over the same […]