Vol.11, No. 44, Summer 2018

A post-closing purchase price dispute is never a pleasant experience. I would venture a guess that no one reading this would willingly be involved in a dispute at all, much...Read more

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“the Code”) can be considered as the biggest economic reform in India. Though the Code is undergoing lot of change, it is nevertheless, one...Read more

Predictive algorithms and computers independently generating output are not new. Some of us remember Deep Blue beating Gary Kasparov. Well, that was in 1997, and there are many antecedents to...Read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) is percolating to every stratum of human life. Apart from science and technology, AI is actively getting adopted in finance, trade and commerce, social sciences etc. But...Read more

The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which came into effect on 1 January 1995, is an international legal agreement between the member nations of the...Read more

As legal acumen becomes more important to business outcomes, legal operations becomes more important to the proper management of law departments. GDPR is not an isolated ‘legal’ issue. GDPR is a...Read more

The telecommunications sector in India is witnessing rapid changes through consolidation and an increase in the number of subscribers with significantly higher data usage across country, in recent times. The...Read more

The recent growth of machine learning applications using artificial intelligence (AI), ranging from drug discovery to improvements in patient care, has coincided with increased investments from pharmaceutical and technology companies....Read more

The EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (2014/59/EU) (the “BRRD”) is part of a series of European Union (“EU”) banking reforms made in response to the financial crisis and...Read more

Corporate internal investigations often involve the complex yet delicate balance between employer and employee rights. An already complicated situation is additionally challenged by a veritable Pandora’s Box of difficult employment...Read more

A lawyer practicing in New York takes for granted claiming the attorney-client privilege no matter whether she/he works in a private law firm or a company, although there are so...Read more

I would like to disclose at the outset that NatSteel® Holdings Pte. Ltd. and its holding-parent company, TATA® Steel Limited, are both users and licensees of one or more software...Read more

The “fourth industrial revolution” is impacting manufacturing systems, leading conventional industry into an hyper-connected world of sensors, metrics and data flows inside and outside the factories. Such augmented complexity goes...Read more

Although any number of provisions in an M&A purchase agreement can, and are, negotiated with a wide range of individual outcomes, there is often an overarching set of market norms...Read more

As one of the counsel for Respondent in the Supreme Court’s Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation decision, it has been difficult since 2007 to acknowledge that vertical...Read more

You’ve been assigned responsibility for, among other things, managing employment law issues for your company’s U.S. operations. Your contacts in the U.S. have attempted to alleviate your anxiety...Read more

The concept of “Governance” dates to ancient human civilization whether it was the Indus Valley Civilization or the Mesopotamian Civilization. In a modern-day scenario “Corporate Governance” is "the system by...Read more

On February 9, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the Circuit Court) reversed a decision by the District Court and ruled in favor...Read more

Recent high-profile litigation involving non-US companies such as Volkswagen, Takada, Malaysia Air, Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, and US companies like Boeing, General Motors, Mandalay Bay (MGM), Johnson & Johnson,...Read more