Articles and Updates

Public Procurement
  • Manjula Chawla, Kripi Kathuria, Chandni Chawla - 13-02-2024

Read the India Chapter for an incisive overview of laws and regulations relating to public procurement practices in India contributed by Manjula Chawla, Kripi Kathuria, and Chandni Chawla in The Legal 500: Public Procurement Country Comparative Guide.

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Automotive
  • Manjula Chawla, Kripi Kathuria, Chandni Chawla - 15-06-2023

The latest edition of Lexology GTDT – Automotive & Mobility covering the regulatory framework and market overview of the automotive industry across 18 jurisdictions, is now available.

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Public Procurement Country Comparative Guide
  • Manjula Chawla, Kripi Kathuria, Chandni Chawla and Associate Apeksha Bhatia - 06-02-2023

Read the India Chapter for an incisive overview of laws and regulations relating to public procurement practices in India contributed by Manjula Chawla, Kripi Kathuria, Chandni Chawla and Associate Apeksha Bhatia in The Legal 500 (Legalease): Public Procurement Country Comparative Guide.

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Automotive
  • Manjula Chawla, Kripi Kathuria, Chandni Chawla and Ashna Gupta - 01-08-2022

The Indian automotive market is currently the fourth largest in the world and is one of the most dynamic sectors of the Indian economy, with most of the global automotive giants already present in the market and contributing to its growth.

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INDIA PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
  • Manjula Chawla, Vasanth Rajasekaran, Kripi Kathuria and Chandni Chawla - 10-02-2022

There is no comprehensive or any specific legislation that governs public procurement contracts in India. The legislative framework on public procurement (which mostly takes place through a tender process for large procurements) is presently based on guidelines contained in rules, procedures and manuals formulated by the Government, which apply to government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs).

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Corporates Gear Up To Meet India's Upgraded CSR Regime
  • Manjula Chawla and Ritika Ganju - 02-06-2021

The corporate social responsibility (CSR) regime was introduced in India as a part of the new Companies Act, 2013, specifically under Section 135 therein read with the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 (CSR Rules). Since then, Section 135 of the Companies Act and the CSR Rules have undergone several amends, resulting in a CSR regime which now stands to penalise non-compliant corporates with a much-extended net of CSR obligations.

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The Legal500 Country Comparative Guides - India: Public Procurement
  • Manjula Chawla, Vasanth Rajasekaran, Kripi Kathuria, and Chandni Chawla. - 09-02-2021

Overview of the legal and regulatory framework governing public procurement in India

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What’s made India an M&A hotspot in 2020?
  • Manjula Chawla, Ritika Ganju and Kripi Kathuria - 04-11-2020

Finance Monthly recently published the thoughts of Manjula Chawla (Founding Partner), Ritika Ganju (Partner), and Kripi Kathuria (Principal Associate) on “what’s made India an M&A hotspot in 2020?

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Anti-corruption compliance in India
  • Manjula Chawla, Chandni Chawla and Ashna Gupta - 23-10-2020

Our co-founding partner Manjula Chawla along with Chandni Chawla (principal associate) and Ashna Gupta (associate) analyse the paradigm shift of corruption laws in India and discuss the evolution and recent trends adopted by organisations to remain compliant.

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Automotive industry disputes in India
  • Manjula Chawla, Chandni Chawla, Kripi Kathuria and Ashna Gupta - 30-06-2020

Our co-founding partner Manjula Chawla along with Chandni Chawla, Kripi Kathuria, and Ashna Gupta provides key insights into the #automotiveindustry in India in the recent fourth edition of Lexology Getting The Deal Through (GTDT) Automotive 2020.

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The Legal 500 (Legalease) - Overview of Legal and Regulatory framework governing Public Procurement in India
  • Manjula Chawla, Vasanth Rajasekaran, Kripi Kathuria, and Chandni Chawla - 04-02-2020

This country-specific Q&A provides an overview of Public Procurement laws and regulations that may occur in India.

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LexisNexis ® Foreign Investment Law Guide 2017-2018
  • Manjula Chawla and Ritika Ganju - 07-07-2017

India has emerged as one of the most attrac­tive destinations for foreign investment from around the globe. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's World Investment Report 2017 ranks India within the top ten countries around the world for attracting foreign direct investment (''FDI'') inflows and fourth amongst the Asian countries.

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CCI Discusses Factors That Led To Record High Penalty
  • Manjula Chawla and Ritika Ganju and Tushar Thimmiah - 05-05-2017

India is the second largest cement producing country after China. The big players of the industry have been under the scanner of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and were heavily penalized in 2012 for colluding to engage in anti-competitive activities.

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