Asia: Corporate/Commercial Law

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Uttar Pradesh cabinet has approved an amendment to the Uttar Pradesh Dookan Aur Vanijya Adhishthan Adhiniyam, 1962, extending its coverage from selected urban areas to the entire state...

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In April 2020, amid the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian government introduced Press Note 3 (“PN3”) through the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (“DPIIT”). The policy was a considered response to a specific and legitimate concern: that investors from land-border countries, China in particular, might exploit the economic distress of the pandemic to acquire stakes in Indian companies at depressed valuations. India was not alone in this assessment. Australia, France, Canada introduced comparable investment screening measures around the same time.

Between January and April 2026, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) pushed through a dense cluster of circulars and regulatory amendments – touching everything from merchant banker registration to the way retail investors receive an abridged prospectus. Some of these changes were long overdue; others were triggered by market stress. All of them, taken together, amount to a fairly significant recalibration of how India’s capital markets participants will need to conduct themselves going forward.

全球供应链治理正经历从效率优先到安全主导的深刻变革。美欧通过法律工具化与合规武器化构建结构性市场排除机制，而中国正从被动防守向战

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The process of determining executive compensation in listed companies consists of three stages: the Nomination and Remuneration Committee ("NRC"), the Board of Directors ("Board"), and the shareholders.

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On 6 February 2026, P. Wilson who serves as a Rajya Sabha MP and works as a senior advocate presented the Constitution Amendment Bill 2026 which he introduced as a private member's Bill to make extensive changes to India's higher judiciary system.

有限责任公司股权继承纠纷案件涉及公司法与继承法的交叉领域，历来是司法实务中的难点问题。

Notably, while the new KYC MD 2025 is explicitly titled for ‘Commercial Banks', it has immediate legal implications for Payment System Providers ("PSPs"), including Prepaid Payment Instrument ("PPI") issuers and Payment Aggregators ("PAs").