(Parveen Arora, Nandita Gopalan & Tanmay Verma) A background to Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz – the German Supply Chain Act In the...

(Parveen Arora & Shloka Vaidialingam) Earlier this year in February 2022, the Indian Finance Minister announced the prospective issue of...

(Arjun Paleri and Jaya Ramachandran) What is Diversity? Most of us know that diversity describes the wide variety of differences between...

(Xerxes Antia, Sheel Ghia & Arbaaz Maniyar) Introduction and Background: The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) has been trying to...

Parveen Arora and Suruchi Kotoky Context BTG Legal was commissioned by Indo-German Energy Forum Support Office (IGEF-SO) [c/o Deutsche...

(Nayantara Sanyal and Simran Lobo) As per Section 6 of The Patents Act, an application for a patent can be made by any person claiming to...

Like the flying car or the new ‘Game of Thrones’ novel, India’s new data privacy law had been described as being ‘almost ready’ and ‘a...

Prashant Mara and Devina Deshpande In February 2019, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (“Cognizant”) agreed to pay USD 25...

Prashant Mara & Pranav Wahi It is well settled law that remedies under writ jurisdiction, intended to secure the performance of public or...

Yesterday the Indian Government officially withdrew the draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (“Bill”) from Parliament. Sometimes...

(Aishwarya Kaushiq & Prashant Daga) The Internet as we know it today owes its existence to a rule that was crystallized in the mid-90s,...

(Arjun Paleri and Amit Baid) The Department of Commerce notified an amendment to the Special Economic Zone Rules, 2006 (“Rules”) on July...

In the first episode of Q&A by BTG Legal, Arjun Paleri (Partner and Head of Employment Law Practice, BTG Legal) discusses various...

Arjun Paleri and Jaya Ramachandran The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare published the Model Human Immunodeficiency Virus and...

(Parveen Arora, Suruchi Kotoky & Tanmay Verma) On June 3, 2022, the Ministry of Power notified the Electricity (Late Payment Surcharge...

Vikram Jeet Singh, Kalindhi Bhatia and Prashant Daga The Indian advertising landscape has changed substantively since 2019 when a new...

(Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Daga) Introduction and Background A lot changed on July 16, 2020, when the Court of Justice of the European...

You will remember that India’s online intermediary safe harbor rules were amended in mid-2021, pursuant to the Information Technology...

(Parveen Arora & Suruchi Kotoky) Recently on June 6, 2022, The Ministry of Power has notified the Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy...

(Vikram Jeet Singh) Background Coming as it did between two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-2020 and early 2021, the 12 October...

(Vikram Jeet Singh and Prashant Daga) Context One of the biggest impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on children, their education,...

(Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Daga) The 2008 financial crisis was largely attributed to misconduct by banks, and created a shift in public...

Vikram Jeet Singh More than 4 years after the Indian Supreme Court declared informational privacy to be a fundamental right, a new draft...

(Vikram Jeet Singh, Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Daga) The Indian Information Technology Act, 2000 (“IT Act”) designates the Indian...