India Annual Review 2012 (July 2012)

Main

Introduction

Draft rules raise benchmark for potential entrants

Industry needs bring relaxation to ECB norms

Key project financings and restructurings

Leading banking and finance lawyers

Don’t bank on the sun

QFI route hopes for capital inflows

Route offers diversification option

Regulators’ role in FCCB refinancing called into question

GAAR implementation raises P-noteholder concerns

Key ECM and DCM deals

Leading capital markets lawyers

Multi-brand retail liberalisation unlikely in near future

The need for patience

CCI performance: Good start but early days

Leading competition lawyers

Calm after the storm: Confidence returns following Vodafone ruling

The unique advantage of Singapore

Leading dispute resolution lawyers

Tax dispute resolution avenues

Stakeholder interests drive new legislation

Regulatory insight

Leaked CAG report triggers coal licensing concern

Leading energy and natural resources lawyers

Bill amendment sparks debate on land acquisition procedures

Desperately seeking aid: Airline industry urges government to permit FDI liberalisation

Key infrastructure and real estate deals

International arbitration beckons over 2G scandal

Leading real estate lawyers

Patent holders on alert over compulsory licence decision

Impact of mandatory digitisation yet to be seen

Cable digitisation to deliver transparency for investors

Tax Authority turns gaze on software industry

Leading intellectual property and TMT lawyers

Opinion divided on significance of employee consent ruling

Calls for trade union transparency following automobile strikes

Globalisation – changing the face of the Indian labour scenario

Merger control and takeover harmony desired

Stronger pharma merger control depends on CCI performance

Key M&A deals

Leading M&A lawyers

Market Data

Recent challenges in the Indian M&A space

Speculation over investor response to greater AIF regulation

Short term hurdles, long term hope

New Code increases investor shareholding options

Key private equity deals

Leading private equity lawyers

Decampment of private equity investments

Integrity of tax system threatened by prospect of retrospective action

Seeking maximum return

GAAR leaves investors feeling powerless

Leading taxation lawyers

Profession rises to the challenge

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