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 […]
The 60-Day Ceiling: How the Fly-In, Fly-Out Cap Reshapes the India Cross-Border Legal Corridor
Corridor legal market intelligence on the fly-in, fly-out cap, the India desks now forming in Singapore, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur, and where the India-seated arbitration margin actually sits. What Does the Fly-In, Fly-Out Cap Require? Under the May 2025 BCI rules, the India legal market entry routes now diverge sharply on one point of operational […]