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Non-Compete Provisions Under The Indian Contract Act and its Applicability: An Analysis
It is a common practice amongst employers in India to have a provision incorporated into the employment contracts that in some fashion restricts the employees from pursuing activities contrary to...Read more

Harish Nambiar
Vice President – Legal, General Counsel (Atos|Syntel), General Counsel (Atos – India) and Compliance Officer, Atos Syntel, India
Blocking Effect of the Blocking Act?
The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, commonly known as the Hatch Waxman Act 1984, was enacted in 1984 to balance the privileges offered to brand...Read more

Anagha Tendulkar
In-house Patent Counsel, Cipla, India
India’s Legal Fight to Curb Fake News – Is it Adequate?

India is a country of people having different languages, cast, religion, practices and food habits. Having a tormented history of over 1200 years, the people of India are very emotional...Read more
Partha Banerjee
Director and Head - Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited, India

Chandrika Bhattacharyya
Head of Legal, Max Bupa Health Insurance, India
Management and Risk Control Framework for Securing Intellectual Assets Transactions.


Adopting corporate governance standards for cross-jurisdictional transactions is a norm for an efficient business ecosystem. Globally, we find de facto and de jure standards, like Basel norms for banking, OECD...Read more
Utsab Banerjee
Manager Legal, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

Prakash Deb Roy
Senior Associate – Legal , Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Schrems II Judgment on Cross Border Personal Data Flows Under EU-US Privacy Shield Mechanism: Good Diagnosis, Vague Prescription

In the case of Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems [C-311/18] decided on July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union with immediate effect...Read more

Subhrarag Mukherjee
Senior Legal Counsel – Strategic Alliances & OEM (North America & Worldwide), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India
Intermediary Dilemma
In today’s digital world everyone is connected with technology either in the form of the internet or in some form of data which infact brings fear in the mind of...Read more

Nitin Bhati
Executive Director - Legal, Rackbank Datacenters Pvt., India
Enforcement of Contracts: The Key to Ease of Doing Business in India


A ranking received under the Ease of Doing Business Reports by the World Bank is not a mere publicity boost for countries but directly has an effect on the...Read more

Oswald Dsouza
Group Legal Head, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, India
Lipika Chimata
Legal Officer, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, India
Comparison in General: The Perils of Generic Disparagement
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In the midst of a lockdown due to the unprecedented outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Bar&Bench reported that in a disparagement suit filed by Hindustan Unilever Limited, Reckitt Benckiser agreed...Read more
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Surup Ray Chaudhuri
Associate Vice President - Legal, The Indian Hotels Company Limited, India
Covid-19 - A Contractual Nightmare
While COVID-19 (previously known as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’) has engulfed the entire world and authorities have been desperately implementing umpteen measures to contain the spread of this pandemic; from a...Read more

Arun Subash
Legal Counsel for Oil and Gas - E&P, Reliance Industries Limited, India
Social Media 2020: Corporate Risks and Regulation
In August 2018, Elon Musk tweeted about having secured funding to make Tesla a private company at USD 420 per share. The impact of this tweet was an immediate surge...Read more

Shilpi Sneha
Manager - Legal, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India