India: M&A/Private Equity

At the same time, modern deal making especially private equity and venture capital investment routinely seeks robust contractual protections and veto rights that, if drafted too aggressively, can be characterised as de facto control rather than mere investor protection.

The November 2025 edition of Fox & Mandal's newsletter examines reforms to the external commercial borrowing framework; Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025; SEBI's revisions to the RPT framework; RBI approval for enforcing damages awarded in a crossborder investment dispute; Undertaking by RPs for restitution of ED-attached assets; REIAs to directly sign PPAs with developers; and other changes in India's corporate, capital markets, infrastructure, insolvency, and banking sectors.

In the landmark judgement of Smt. Ragmania (Deceased) through LRs Kariman Das v. Jagmet & Others, the Chhattisgarh High Court revisited a recurring inheritance issue - whether a daughter can claim rights...

Our, Managing Partner, Souvik Ganguly was one of the speakers in the ‘Private equity trends and deal points update in Japan...

There has been an enormous shift in the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in India in the last decade, not only due to strategic corporate expansion but also due to the opportunities of distressed assets.

Historically and till date, the current regulatory regime of RBI has barred Indian banks from funding domestic acquisitions.

The September 2025 edition of Fox & Mandal's newsletter examines SEBI's amendments to the RPT, FPI, anchor investor, and MPS frameworks; enhanced scope of fast-track mergers; conversion of private InvITs to public; new framework for coastal trading; signs of speculative investments in housing projects; classification of REITs as equity; RBI's guidelines for payment aggregators; and other changes in India's corporate, capital markets, infrastructure, insolvency, and banking sectors.

As corporate ambitions stretch across sectors and geographies, companies are on the constant lookout for efficient ways to scale and manage growth across diverse verticals.

The landscape of corporate restructuring in India has undergone a significant transformation over the past two decades, marked by a shift from protracted judicial procedures to a more agile and responsive regulatory framework.