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M&A26 August 20267 min read

Structuring an acquisition: the questions worth settling before diligence begins

Most transaction delays are traceable to structural questions left open at the outset. A short list of decisions, taken early, materially shortens the path to signing.

By Aditi Raghavan, Ananya Krishnan

Disputes12 August 20266 min read

Arbitration clauses: the drafting decisions that matter when a dispute arrives

Dispute resolution clauses are usually negotiated last and read first. A handful of drafting choices determine whether the clause helps or hinders once a disagreement is live.

By Rohan Mehra

Technology29 July 20268 min read

Data governance frameworks that reflect how your product actually works

Privacy documentation prepared in isolation from engineering reality creates exposure rather than reducing it. Governance should begin with a defensible map of data flows.

By Meera Iyer

Corporate15 July 20266 min read

Shareholder agreements: designing for deadlock and exit at the outset

Governance provisions are agreed when parties are aligned and tested when they are not. Deadlock and exit mechanics deserve more attention than they usually receive.

By Aditi Raghavan

Employment30 June 20267 min read

Workplace investigations: process integrity determines whether findings hold

Investigation outcomes are challenged on process far more often than on substance. The safeguards that matter are decided before the first interview.

By Nandita Sharma

Corporate11 June 20266 min read

Security packages: where perfection fails in practice

Lenders discover defects in a security package at the point of enforcement, when the options for repair have closed. Most defects are administrative.

By Kavita Nair

Tax27 May 20266 min read

Indirect tax questions that recur in digital services arrangements

Digital delivery models raise characterisation and place-of-supply questions that contracts frequently leave ambiguous. Ambiguity is resolved against the taxpayer more often than not.

By Siddharth Bose

Real Estate8 May 20267 min read

Title diligence: reading the chain rather than the certificate

Title comfort derives from an unbroken, explicable chain of transactions. A summary opinion is a conclusion, not the analysis that supports it.

By Arjun Deshpande

Regulatory21 April 20266 min read

Compliance programmes that operate rather than exist

A compliance programme is assessed on evidence of operation. Ownership, testing and escalation distinguish a functioning framework from a documented one.

By Nandita Sharma, Siddharth Bose

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