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Bankruptcy Code & Once the Vilified Promoter-Averse Approach
The report of the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee Volume I: Rationale and Design dated November 2015 stated that the IBC was construed to resolve the twin problems in Indian business...Read more
Partha Banerjee
Director and Head - Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited, India
Induced Infringement under US Patent Law

Induced infringement finds its basis in 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) and holds a person, liable if he actively causes infringement, even if the actor himself is not the direct infringer....Read more

Anagha Tendulkar
In-house Patent Counsel, Cipla, India

Jatin Jalundhwala
Joint President Legal and Company Secretary, Adani Group, India
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Introduced in 2013, India became the first country in the world to statutorily mandate Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”), which is otherwise seen as a philanthropic activity undertaken at the discretion...Read more
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Vanita Bhargava
Senior Partner, Khaitan & Co., India
Technical Data Rights in the Context of the Marine Industry 

This article focuses on the main legal aspects of technical data rights in the context of the marine industry. The article will overview how the increased volume of data and...Read more
Tuomas Keltto
Specialist Legal Counsel, Tech Law, Wärtsilä Finland Oy, Finland
Tom Barr
Managing Counsel, Tech Law, Wärtsilä Voyage UK, UK
Creative Claiming Strategies


Innovator companies in the biopharmaceutical space are looking to their patent counsel for creative patent claiming strategies to protect their assets. In this article, using the Federal Circuit opinions in...Read more

Angela Sebor
Director Intellectual Property, Tolmar, Inc., USA

Xiaoguang Michelle Gao
Associate VP - Assistant General Patent Counsel , Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Stacy Lewis
Law Clerk, Finnegan, USA
Broadening the Shield: Evolution and Expansion of Press Note 3


The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) has recently notified various amendments to enforce protectionist measures, which appear to resonate the objective behind the issuance of the famous (or rather, infamous)...Read more

Pallavi Puri
Partner, J. Sagar Associates, India
Dhananjay Shahi
Head – Corporate Legal, Bharti Enterprises., India

Aishwarya Gupta
Associate, J. Sagar Associates, India
Separate Legal Personality

As well as advising on all manner of commercial and procurement matters, the Council’s in-house commercial lawyers regularly encounter issues in connection with the provision of care services. Given the...Read more

Mike Wilkinson
Barrister, 18 St John Street Chambers, UK
Ciaran Wells
Senior In-House Solicitor, Lancashire County Council, UK
Negotiating International Development Arrangements in a
Franchise System

International expansion often involves the creation of some form of business relationship with a party that resides in the local market. Yum! Brands is a global success story, with around...Read more
Sally Glover
Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer, KFC South Pacific, Australia
Stephen Giles
Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia
U.S. Plays Catch-up to Close Long-Standing Gaps in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Part One
The U.S. Government finally seems to begin focusing on closing long-standing and significant gaps in existing anti-money and contra-terrorist financing laws (together, “AML”) that have been in existence for nearly...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
German Patent Modernisation Act – A Game Changer for Protection of Confidential Information in Patent Litigation?

Protection of confidential information disclosed in litigation used to be insufficient in Germany. For a long time, it was only regulated fragmentarily. Despite the implementation of the Trade Secret Directive...Read more

Nikita Alymov
Attorney-at-law , Hoffmann Eite , Germany

Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine
attorney-at-law, partner , Hoffmann Eitle , Germany