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Setting up a GCC in India
Designing India GCCs involves vehicle, location, labour, data, pricing and transfer pricing compliance for strategic durability
Dissecting invalidity of financial loan agreements
A financial loan agreement is the core legal instrument governing lending between banks, licensed financial institutions and market participants
Standard essential patents: Stakes for Japanese automakers
Japan automakers’ India boom meets SEP risk, with connected-vehicle standards triggering long-term FRAND licensing exposure
Weighing up AI prompts with copyright law
Shanghai’s first AI prompt copyright lawsuit concludes that prompts are not works. Human-machine interactive commands are not copyrightable
Equity repurchases: Fulfilling obligations, mitigating dispute risks
Under different buyback structures, enforceability, allocation of liability and guarantee performance often shape the course of the buyback and VAM disputes
Shareholder and affiliate liability disputes: offence and defence
China’s new Company Law sharpens risks around veil piercing, related-party exposure and debt evasion, reshaping compliance and recovery strategy
Flaws diverting Delhi’s draft EV policy
Delhi EV policy shifts to bans, but incentives, supply contingencies and financing gaps threaten delivery
Nurturing digital adoption with light-touch regulation
India’s light-touch AI and data rules enable innovation with clear, risk-based compliance for investors
Impact investing: Do use of proceeds clauses actually work?
Use of proceeds clauses in India need monitoring, audit rights and enforceable remedies are beyond covenants
Policy, process and delay in arbitral challenges
India’s Supreme Court reinforces arbitration finality where due process objections cannot derail awards or restart proceedings
China Business Law Journal
Weighing up AI prompts with copyright law
Shanghai’s first AI prompt copyright lawsuit concludes that prompts are not works. Human-machine interactive commands are not copyrightable
Equity repurchases: Fulfilling obligations, mitigating dispute risks
Under different buyback structures, enforceability, allocation of liability and guarantee performance often shape the course of the buyback and VAM disputes
Shareholder and affiliate liability disputes: offence and defence
China’s new Company Law sharpens risks around veil piercing, related-party exposure and debt evasion, reshaping compliance and recovery strategy
How principal, interest are calculated and applied in court (Part 2)
A concise guide to penalty interest, compound interest and judicial rate caps for bank loans, with key rules and case law insights
Five common misconceptions about offshore trusts
A clearer view of what offshore trusts can, and cannot, do helps set realistic expectations and enables wealth owners to define their needs and plan accordingly.
Corporate criminal risk: Pitfalls and course corrections
Criminal exposure is the risk companies can least afford
Latest cautious steps in China’s maturing bankruptcy law
With fear for bankruptcy reorganisation largely dissipated and cities exploring personal bankruptcy, China is slowly but surely maturing its insolvency scheme
Asia Business Law Journal
Inclusive workplaces: The Workplace Fairness Act
Singapore enacts the Workplace Fairness Act to prevent discrimination and ensure fair employment practices
Who if not you?
New ACC president and CEO Jason Brown outlines his vision to deepen engagement with in-house counsel across Asia
Executing deeds under Singapore law
LSS CPC guidance (Aug 2025) addresses electronic execution of Singapore law-governed deeds and foreign company execution in banking transactions
Life sciences sector in Russia: Regulatory landscape for 2025
The life sciences sector in Russia stays stable with local production incentives and EEU regulatory unity
BVI premier targets Asia markets, China business
BVI Premier Natalio Wheatley boosts China investment ties while securing new growth in Asia amid geopolitical shifts
India Business Law Journal
Standard essential patents: Stakes for Japanese automakers
Japan automakers’ India boom meets SEP risk, with connected-vehicle standards triggering long-term FRAND licensing exposure
Flaws diverting Delhi’s draft EV policy
Delhi EV policy shifts to bans, but incentives, supply contingencies and financing gaps threaten delivery
Nurturing digital adoption with light-touch regulation
India’s light-touch AI and data rules enable innovation with clear, risk-based compliance for investors
Impact investing: Do use of proceeds clauses actually work?
Use of proceeds clauses in India need monitoring, audit rights and enforceable remedies are beyond covenants
Policy, process and delay in arbitral challenges
India’s Supreme Court reinforces arbitration finality where due process objections cannot derail awards or restart proceedings
RBI scrutiny tightens over NBFC ‘board observers’
RBI tightens NBFC governance as PE and VC board observers face director duties, liability risks
Paper reciprocity undermines foreign decrees
Executing foreign decrees in India: Section 44A CPC, reciprocity, comity and Bombay High Court guidance
Updating force majeure clauses for India-Japan contracts
After covid-19, Indo-Japan force majeure clauses today are scrutinised, with frustration risks and modern change-in-law protections considered
