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India
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices advise on a USD 3.72 billion acquisition
Amarchand Mangaldas advises Dalmia Cement in private equity investment by KKR
Luthra triumphs at IFLR India Awards
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices celebrates the long weekend with an offsite to Beijing, China
Luthra advises in Asset Acquisition Financing Transactions
Indian Law Firm Part Of Bid Consortium ? Kuwait Airways Company Privatization
Bar Council moots must-clear exam for legal practice
Nishith Desai advises Prysmian Cavie Sistemi Energia S.R.L.
FoxMandal Little facilitates new Bar Council of Delhi members
Kochhar & Co. hosts roundtable conference on sexual harassment
Principe of severability made applicable to arbitration award
Foreign Education Bill receives nod from the Cabinet
Another writ petition filed against foreign law firms
Purchase of Immovable Property in India by Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs)- RBI amends ?PIO? definition
Cabinet introduces consolidated FDI policy
MEA curbs CJI, Law Minister and AG?s trip to the United States
Offshore drug makers might lose monopoly
Supreme Court passes order to publish pre-recognized rules in the official gazette
Indian law school sizzles at WTO law moot at Taiwan
India?s anti-trust regulatory body to introduce a scheme of pre-merger consultation
SC passes judgment on making poverty of the convict a mitigating factor
International
Lovells to close its Chicago Office
India and Finland sign revised DTAA
British Airways and Iberia delay merger deal
EU Approves ?10.44B Anglo Irish Aid
Fed Reserve Bank of New York may reopen MBS Purchase Program
Death Penalty given to 17 Indians by Sharjah court subject to appeal
UK court permits open air cementation
Interview of the Month:
This month, ILJ?s Director, Vikrant Pachnanda spoke to Zia Mody, Managing Partner, AZB & Partners about the various challenges that currently face the Indian legal industry especially post the global meltdown.
Book Review:
Prof. Richard Hyland, ?Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law?, 2009, Oxford University Press ($125/-) by Barnik Ghosh, Deputy Editor, India Law Journal
Legal Articles:
The Rule of Law Enterprise- Towards a Dialogue between Practioners and Academics by Prof. Julio Faundez, Dean, Warwick Law School
Emergence of Sports Law in India by Gaurang Kanth, Managing Partner, Kanth & Associates
Court Approved Scheme of Amalgamation is an Instrument liable to stamp duty by Vyapak Desai, Partner, Nishith Desai Associates & Shikhar Kacker, Associate, Nishith Desai Associates
Impact of Budget 2010 on Real Estate Sector in India by Ruchir Sinha, Senior Member, Nishith Desai Associates & Deepak Jodhani, Associate, Nishith Desai Associates
Economic Crime, Transparency, Openness and Ethics: Key Issues and Challenges by Dr. Linda S. Spedding, International Lawyer & Advisor
Corporate Espionage and the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 by Harsh Sinha, Partner, Kaden Boriss Legal LLP
Independent Directors: A Perspective in light of Companies Bill 2009 by Prof. J.P. Singh, Naveen Kumar & Uzma Shigufta, Department of Managment Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
A Guide for setting up a business in Dubai by Rupendra K. Porwal, Head (Legal & Statutory), Sobha Group of Companies, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Origin of the Leiden ? Sarin Air Law Moot Court by Nitin Sarin, Advocate, Punjab & Haryana High Court
Intellectual Property Rights in Mergers and Acquisitions by Trushil Vora, Associate, FoxMandal Little & Shashank Manish, student, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
Patenting Nanotechnology- the Challenges posed to the Indian patent regime by Kirthi Jayakumar, student, School of Excellence, Dr, B.R. Ambedkar University
The History, Rationale and Critical Analysis of Reservations under the Constitution of India by Rashmin Khandekar, student, Government Law College, Mumbai & Sunny Shah, student, National Law University, Jodhpur
Method of Calculation of Mobile Termination Charge: Is TRAI doing Justice? By Archi Agnihotri & Medha Srivastava, students, National Law Institute University, Bhopal
Securitisation: Concepts and Practices in India by Vrinda Aghi, student, ILS, Pune
