Corporate Law : This case examines whether borrowing costs should be capitalised using full-year borrowings or only those during the eligible peri...
Corporate Law : The Court’s 2025 ruling upheld CCI’s power to impose structural and personal penalties without a second notice, marking a majo...
Corporate Law : India is moving to regulate Big Tech's anti-competitive practices like predatory pricing, self-preferencing, and data misuse. A ne...
Corporate Law : An analysis of India’s merger control under CCI rules, deal value threshold, key cases, and comparisons with US, EU, and UK fram...
Corporate Law : Explore India’s merger control laws under Competition Act and Companies Act, CCI’s role, key cases and emerging reforms for a ...
Corporate Law : The proposed rules establish a comprehensive conduct framework for CCI employees, including integrity, conflict-of-interest contro...
Corporate Law : Parliament was informed that no antitrust or merger cases originated from Jammu and Kashmir during the year. The key takeaway is t...
Corporate Law : Enforcement activity rose with steady antitrust actions and quicker merger disposals, aided by reduced timelines and streamlined p...
Corporate Law : The competition watchdog has initiated further proceedings over widespread flight disruptions, signaling that the matter merits ex...
Corporate Law : The 2023 Competition Amendment Act strengthens CCI powers, introduces thresholds for high-value deals, and expands anti-competitiv...
Corporate Law : CCI directed investigation into allegations that certain liquor manufacturers and distributors entered into restrictive agreements...
Corporate Law : Allegations of an implied anti-competitive agreement between a regulator and a software provider were rejected. The Commission fou...
Corporate Law : The Commission found no proof that tender conditions excluded competitors or favoured select players. It held that procurement ter...
Corporate Law : The case examined allegations of inflated and discriminatory pricing in supply of a critical railway component. The Commission hel...
Corporate Law : The Commission held that bidders colluded by quoting identical and patterned prices across multiple tenders. It found that such co...
Corporate Law : The CCI held that restricting warranty services in India to products bought from authorised distributors was unfair and discrimina...
Corporate Law : Summary of the Competition Commission of India (Determination of Cost of Production) Regulations, 2025. Details key changes, defin...
Corporate Law : The Competition Commission of India (CCI) notifies new regulations for recovering monetary penalties, detailing procedures for dem...
Corporate Law : CCI penalizes Meta ₹213.14 crore for abusing dominance through WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy update. Cease-and-desist orders an...
Corporate Law : Clause (f) of Section 19 of the Competition Amendment Act 2023 comes into effect on 19th September 2024, as per the Ministry of Co...
It was often felt that in order to make the business bigger you need to invest a huge amount of capital into it. But in today’s era, businesses require something really astonishing and it suggests that businesses today become bigger not because of money but because of ideas and a marketing technique. Hence today while […]
Harshita Chawla Vs. WhatsApp Inc. & Facebook Inc. (Competition Commission of India) As regards the allegation of leveraging, the Commission does not agree with the Informant for reasons cited supra while dealing with the allegation under Section 4(2)(d) of the Act. The Informant has contended that WhatsApp will leverage its dominance in the upstream market […]
Merger of large companies in same industry is Anti-Competitive but merger of Vodafone & Idea is not (though merged entity will have highest market share in Wireless Telecom Market). Here’s why? Introduction: Reliance Jio, A company which brought digital revolution in India and has changed the composition of telecom industry which was originally having 11 […]
CCI has concluded that mere provision of services at free of cost by itself cannot be termed as Anti-Competitive unless the same is evidenced by dominant enterprise and an Anti-Competitive objective of excluding competition / competitors which does not seem to be the current scenario after considering relevant market and competitors
Relevant Section: Sections 4 & 5 of the Competition Act, 2002. Section 4 of the Competition act discussed about the Anti-Competitive Agreement. What is Anti-Competitive Agreement? 1. Any agreement entered into in contravention of the provisions of the Act, 2. Any agreement entered into between- i. enterprises or ii. Association of enterprises, or iii. Persons, or […]
Relevant Sections: Section 5 & 6 under the Competition Act, 2002. What is Combination? Section 5 of the Competition Act, 2002 Combination means- The acquisition of One or more enterprise by one or more persons, or Merger or Amalgamation of enterprise shall be a combination of such enterprises and persons or enterprises, if- Situation 1. Any […]
XYZ Vs Directorate of State Lotteries (Competition Commission of India) Competition Commission has closed a complaint alleging unfair business practices by the Directorate of State Lotteries, West Bengal, and West Bengal Lottery Stockists Syndicate. Full Text of the order of Competition Commission of India 1. The present Information has been filed by XYZ (‘the Informant’) […]
That the period of lockdown ordered by the Central Government and the State Governments including the period as may be extended either in whole or part of the country, where the registered office of the Corporate Debtor may be located
‘Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes’ (AMMA), Film Employees Federation of Kerala’ (FEFKA), ‘FEFKA Director’s Union’ and ‘FEFKA Production Executive’s Union’ and their office bearers were found to be liable under Section 48 for violation of anti-competitive conduct.
: In absence of any prime facie opinion framed, that the combination of Walmart-Flipkart was likely to cause or had caused appreciable adverse effect on the competition within the relevant market in India, the sanction of of Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart by Competition Commission of India (CCI) was justified.
