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Aarna Law participates in the INTA Annual Meeting 2023 in Singapore
The NTA Annual Meeting Live+ – the biggest annual gathering of IP practitioners – took place in Singapore in May. Aarna Law was represented by Spandana Ashwath. The INTA Annual Meeting provides an unrivalled opportunity to learn about and discuss developments in trademark and related areas of law, as well as to meet clients and…
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Shreyas Jayasimha appointed to the Expert Committee
Aarna Law’s co-founder Shreyas Jayasimha has been appointed to the Expert Committee that will recommend reform to India’s Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The Expert Committee is tasked with reviewing the present law and providing recommendations to the Ministry of Law.
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New ruling supports third-party funding for disputes
A recent judgment from the Delhi High Court has placed arbitration financing in the spotlight and seems to provide more comfort to third-party funders of disputes in India.
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Shreyas Jayasimha speaks on cross-border insolvency for SMU masterclass
On 17 August, the Singapore Management University Law Academy will hold an Expert Masterclass on cross-border insolvency resolution between India and Singapore.
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Aarna Law participates in the SIAC Bengaluru Conference 2023
Last Friday, Aarna Law co-founder Shreyas Jayasimha participated in the SIAC Bengaluru Conference. He took part in an Oxford-style debate in which he argued that India could become a hub of international arbitration by opening its doors to foreign law firms. This is a subject he also covered in this recent blog post. Thank you…
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Aarna Law hosts Singapore International Arbitration Centre in Bangalore
Aarna Law was delighted to welcome Gloria Lim, chief executive officer at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), to a breakfast meeting at its offices yesterday. In her keynote speech, Ms. Lim expressed her desire for further collaboration between Indian law firms and SIAC to increase the scope of arbitration in India. SIAC members were…
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Does India have enough insurance coverage for a nuclear disaster?
India has barely half the insurance amount it needs in the event of a nuclear disaster, raising concerns among experts about the lack of oversight on the nuclear sector.
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Arbitrability of fraud
Arbitrating in India can involve recalcitrant respondents trying to frustrate the proceedings, and claimants trying to bring claims that would ideally be litigated before courts. Unfortunately, the jurisprudence around whether a claim is arbitrable or not has not followed a consistent pattern yet it can have profound consequences for the parties involved. It therefore becomes…
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Emergency arbitration in India: a problem of enforcement
Emergency arbitration has been in the spotlight in India recently through Indian low-cost airline Go Airline which is trying to enforce an emergency arbitration award against US engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. However, it seems that winning the award is not the end of the battle – the key challenge is enforcing it.
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Enabling procedural efficacies in parallel ISDS arbitrations
The difficulties associated with multiple claims brought by different claimants on the same subject-matter has been described as “detrimental to investment practice”.[1] The existence of concurrent proceedings can “hinder amicable settlement” and “undermine predictability more generally”.[2] The UNCITRAL Secretariat’s Note on the ‘Concurrent Proceedings in Investment Arbitration’ defines parallel or concurrent proceedings as “situations where…