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 […]
No Material Impact, Until It Is: What India’s Disclosure Doctrine Means for Cross-Border Creditors
Watch in 1 minute video here When a listed company tells its exchanges that a regulatory action will have no impact on its financial stability or debt-servicing ability, that statement is tested against exactly one thing at the moment it is made: the facts then available to the board. It is tested against something else […]
Freshfields’ Pay Overhaul: A Margin Signal for the India Corridor
Watch in 1 minute video here Freshfields’ sweeping compensation restructuring has been analysed across the legal press primarily as an internal partnership crisis. The magic circle giant executed a performance-based overhaul that stripped equity points away from the firm’s legacy European core, triggering partner exits and equity downgrades across London, Paris, and Germany. The stated […]
Two Tracks, One Policy: What the Sun Pharma Financing Signals About Who Is Exposed
Watch 1 minute video here State Bank of India has finalised a $1 billion tranche inside the syndicate financing Sun Pharmaceutical Industries’ $11.75 billion all-cash acquisition of Organon & Co., alongside Citigroup, JPMorgan, and MUFG. The deal itself is a genuine milestone with an Indian pharmaceutical major moving into the global top 25 on the […]
What Firms Are Really Paying For, and Why It’s Worth Naming
Watch in one-minute-video here. Recent compensation data across the Am Law 50 highlights a sharp spike in specialised executive overhead: the newly minted class of “Chief AI Officers” (CAIOs) and “Directors of Legal AI Innovation.” Base salaries for these non-revenue-producing leadership roles are tracking at a market premium, consistently commanding between $350,000 and $450,000, with […]
After Nagaraj: Why the India-Singapore Arbitration Corridor Just Got More Valuable
First published on Kluwer Arbitration Blog On 25 March 2026, the Supreme Court of India (“Supreme Court”) rendered its decision on Nagaraj V. Mylandla v. PI Opportunities Fund-I, formally endorsing the doctrine of transnational issue estoppel in the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards for the first time at the apex level. Read alongside the Singapore […]
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 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 […]