Work That Has a Date on It
Watch in 1 minute video here When Larsen & Toubro booked roughly INR 50,000 crore in West Asian hydrocarbon packages and VA Tech Wabag entered Kuwait’s desalination market, law firm marketing desks predictably issued a wave of analysis. It is entirely understandable why firms publish at the moment of award – the news is public, […]
The Indian End of a UAE Jurisdiction Clause
Watch in 1 minute video here A UAE lender holds a personal guarantee from an Indian promoter. The facility is governed by English law. The dispute resolution clause is asymmetric — the structure standard in cross-border financing for thirty years. Enforcement day arrives, the borrower’s UAE assets are encumbered, and what remains is a promoter […]
Most Market Events Contain No Mandate
Watch in 1 minute video here A story breaks about a governance failure at a large listed company, a regulator’s finding, and litigation commencing somewhere unexpected. A law firm partner reads it over coffee with a half-formed thought about whether there is anything in it for the firm. The usual honest answer is no, and […]
Being Right Slowly
Watch in 1 minute video here Most commentary published after a sanctions action is written from inside a practice group, looking at the instrument. This piece is written from a market analyst’s lens. We answer questions about where the legal work is. While law firms race to publish alerts on the latest US sanctions tranche, […]
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 […]