This paper seeks to argue that the rigidity of the rule on ‘financial assistance’ must be relaxed to foster leveraged buy-outs. Part I analyses the structure of typical LBOs and highlights the manner in which these transactions are stifled by the prohibition on ‘financial assistance’....

This paper seeks to locate equity crowdfunding at a particular point on the investor protection – capital formation spectrum, and subsequently constructs a light-touch, principles-based approach towards regulating the practice of crowdfunding in India. Moving from a regime of prohibition to...

The Electricity Act, 2003 (‘Electricity Act’) read with the Electricity Rules, 2005 (‘Electricity Rules’) regulate the functioning of CPPs in India. This article examines the 2018 amendment to Rule 3 of the Electricity Rules (yet to be notified ), which, inter alia, sought to require the...