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10 Dec
2025

Labour Codes in India: Implications for M&A Transactions

India’s labour law landscape has undergone a transformative overhaul with the consolidation of 29 central labour laws into four comprehensive Labour Codes. This reform represents one of the most significant changes in employment regulation since independence and has profound implications for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions in India. Understanding these

08 Mar
2021

Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 | Overview and the way ahead….

Despite the limitations posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, 66 sittings and more than 160 hours later, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (“JPC”) (constituted to examine the Personal Data Protection Bill (hereinafter ‘PDPB’) which was introduced in Lok Sabha by the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, on December 11, 2019) concluded

05 Feb
2021

Data Privacy Laws |Right to be forgotten

In today’s world of interest and convenience to its access, the six degrees of separation, as was once known, has now been reduced, perhaps not more than two / three degrees of separation. This is primarily due of so much of data being present in the cyber world and continuous

04 Sep
2020

E-COMMERCE – NOW LEGISLATED! Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020

INTRODUCTION Our earlier post under the AP Law Series, examined the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, which was published in the Official Gazette on August 9, 2020 and may be accessed here – http://aplaw.in/version-2-0-consumer-protection-act-in-india-then-1986-now-2019/ . Pursuant to the powers under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (“Act”), the Central Government, in a

23 Jul
2020

E-SIGNATURES IN INDIA | Legality, applicability and Stamp duty implications

All contracts in India are required to be in compliance with the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (“ICA”). Further, for the purposes of laws governing e-signatures / digital signatures in India, reliance is placed on the Information Technology Act, 2000 (“ITA”), along with various rules issued under the said Act, and