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Death by Legalese

A common experience by start-up founders is frustration at the overly complicated investment agreements steeped in legalese that require their consideration as a precondition to investment. Some spend innumerable hours in deciphering what is being asked and becoming comfortable that they are not signing their lives away while others simply do not bother and sign …

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Pledge of shares – Interplay between the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and the Depositories Act, 1996

Premise The Indian Contract Act, 1872 (“Contract Act”) governs the law of pledges. Where the property being pledged is shares of a company, the Depositories Act, 1996 (“Depositories Act”) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 20181 (“DP Regulations”) may also apply. The Supreme Court of India was recently seized …

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Tokenisation Article

Tokenisation Compliances: Need of the hour Implementation of Tokenisation norms w.e.f. 01 October 2022 The rise in unauthorised access of data and data breaches at an alarming rate has caught the attention of organisations and authorities. This has led to data security becoming a board level discussion within organisations. However, the idea was not to …

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