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 client to the regulator before each visit. The margin on the engine-room work passes to whoever registers first.
INDIA MARKET ENTRY
Counsel, Not Advocate: Foreign Law Firm India Market Entry After the May 2025 BCI Rules
The May 2025 BCI rules open the one slice of Indian legal work that has always carried the most cross-border margin: counsel in India-seated international arbitrations involving foreign or international law. The firms still asking whether they can appear in the Madras High Court have misread which question the market is paying for.
CROSS-BORDER ENFORCEMENT
After Rajesh Exports: What Foreign Counsel Can Now Win Offshore
SEBI’s June 2026 order against Rajesh Exports exposes a three-corridor mandate: Geneva evidence reach, Singapore holding-company coordination, an India-regulator-facing narrative, that almost no firm has yet assembled into a single stack. The offshore India desk was built for inbound work. This problem runs outbound.
INVESTMENT PROTECTION
Outside the Agreement: The Investment-Protection Mandate in the EU–India Corridor
The EU-India free trade deal concluded in January 2026, but its investment protection chapter was decoupled and left unresolved. India terminated 77 legacy bilateral investment treaties between 2016 and 2024. The firms that capture the inbound EU capital now flowing in are the ones who can inject sovereign risk protections into deal documents at the term-sheet stage, not the ones waiting for a dispute to arise.
DISPUTE ARCHITECTURE
The India-London-Singapore arbitrability gap, and what it costs
Indian law locks shareholder deadlocks inside the NCLT. London and Singapore seats treat the identical dispute as arbitrable. That divergence is settled, permanent, and priced into every cross-border joint venture with an Indian operating company from the day it is signed, whether or not anyone priced it. The firm that benefits is the one already trusted by the foreign partner before the venture breaks, not the one reacting once the filing lands.
CROSS-BORDER DISTRESS
The Rajesh Exports Auction: Mispricing Risk in Cross-Border Corporate Distress
Canara Bank is selling its INR 509.37 crore credit exposure to a conglomerate whose realisable asset base sits in Switzerland, Singapore and the Gulf — not in India. A domestic NPA desk prices the discount against the local security. The cross-border asset map is a different document. Treating the two as identical is the difference between buying an asset recovery and buying a stranded lawsuit.
CORRIDOR DISPUTE INTELLIGENCE
The Geometry of Related-Party Arbitrage: Unlocking Transnational Disputes in the Anglo-Indian Corridor
A convertible instrument turns relatedness into a question of timing: the counterparty is unrelated on paper today and controlling on conversion tomorrow. When a Singapore intermediate holding layer is added, the substance of the structure moves one jurisdiction away from where it is recorded. A dispute of this kind is not born when a freezing order is sought in London. It is born years earlier, in the structuring. It surfaces in London. It is made in India.
CORRIDOR MARKET INTELLIGENCE
India and London: The Corridor Travels in Disguise
The India-London corridor is loudest at the conferences and in the law reports. Most of its volume is never there at all, settled privately, arbitrated in confidence, or recorded on the cause list under a Mauritius shell with no Indian name visible. The celebrated corridor is crowded. Whether it is the whole of the corridor is a different question, and it cannot be answered by a guest list.
CONSTRUCTION AND ENERGY
The Chokepoint and the Variation Claim: Supply Shocks and the EPC Risk Shift in the Anglo-Indian Corridor
A supply shock doesn’t stay in the procurement ledger. It travels down the contract and arrives, months later, as a variation or an extension-of-time claim. The more durable shift is structural: faced with working-capital exposure, equipment makers on the Anglo-Indian corridor are moving from turnkey EPC to pure supply contracts, shedding completion risk. The risk has not been reduced. It has been relocated, and with it, the place where the next dispute will form.
LEGAL TECHNOLOGY
What the Legal-Tech Market Looks Like When No One Is Selling You Anything
The same market, read by someone with nothing in any category and no seller behind the words.
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Lawfinity Solutions advises international law firms on cross-border legal market positioning. If the India corridor is a live question for your firm, we would be interested in a conversation. Lawfinity works with one firm per jurisdiction. Engagements begin with a single conversation about your firm’s current position and where the corridor question is live for you. Write to Prachi Shrivastava
