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Chitra Rentala, partner, Trilegal and Sr. Adv. Amit Desai Companies facing regulatory and enforcement investigations must recognise that the strongest defence is built long before an agency notice, search or summons arrives, Senior Advocate Amit Desai said at ETLegalWorld’s India White Collar Crime Forum 2026. Speaking on regulatory investigations, he said corporates must invest in…

Global geopolitics is reshaping Indian banking and finance law by turning transaction assessment into a wider question of sanctions exposure, data control, cloud resilience and regulatory readiness, Nilanjan Sinha, General Counsel, ICICI Bank, said, while delivering the Chairperson address at ETLegalWorld’s Banking and Finance Law Summit 2026. The summit’s third edition focused on the reset…

Technology has accelerated the speed, scale and complexity of white-collar crime, but it has also given investigators new tools to uncover misconduct through digital trails, metadata and data analytics, Brijesh Singh, Principal Secretary, Government of Maharashtra, said while delivering the keynote address at ETLegalWorld’s India White Collar Crime Forum 2026. Singh said Indian companies must…

Kwality Wall’s (India) Ltd on Monday said its board has approved a revised three-year intellectual property (IP) agreement with Magnum IP Holdings B.V., providing a royalty holiday until March 31, 2027, as the ice cream maker looks to stabilise operations following its demerger. “Following the demerger of the Ice Cream business, the management undertook a…

Banking and Finance Law Summit 2026 The third edition of ETLegalWorld’s Banking & Finance Law Summit (BFLS) is set to take place in less than a week, bringing together some of India’s most prominent banking lawyers, compliance officers, general counsels, and regulatory officials under one roof for an evening of substantive dialogue and debate. Themed…

Trilegal has advised Dreamplug Technologies (CRED) and Kunal Shah (founder of CRED) in connection with CRED’s Series H fundraising of approximately INR 8,550 crore from Meta, comprising a combination of primary subscription and secondary acquisition of shares from existing shareholders. “CRED will raise this round at a post-money valuation of INR 43,239 crore and a…

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas have acted as the Indian legal counsel to Jio Platforms Limited on the proposed initial public offering of equity shares of the company. Latham & Watkins guided Jio Platforms as the international legal counsel. Khaitan & Co and White & Case acted as the domestic and…

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has advised National Stock Exchange of India on its proposed initial public offering. Latham & Watkins acted as the international counsel to NSE. Twenty merchant bankers are advising as book running lead managers on this marquee transaction. Khaitan & Co and Sidley Austin are the domestic and international counsels to the BRLMs…

Ankur Sangal Khaitan & Co equity partner Ankur Sangal is set to leave the firm to launch a specialist intellectual property law firm along with members of his existing team, sources close to the development confirm. Sangal, who has been a key member of Khaitan & Co’s Intellectual Property practice, is expected to launch the…

As of June 14, 2026, India’s subordinate courts carried a crushing backlog of over 4.94 crore pending cases. High Courts had another 64.2 lakh matters waiting for disposal. The Supreme Court itself crossed 93,676 pending cases. As per NJDG data, over 3,37,600 cases across the system have been pending for more than 20 years. The…