This podcast summarises the various anti-competitive activities analysed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and some of the noteworthy mergers and acquisitions approved by the CCI in the Indian automobile industry.

 Content: Charanya Lakshmikumaran, Partner (L&S), and Neelambera Sandeepan, Joint Partner (L&S)
 Voice: Rishabh Chopra, Joint Partner (L&S) 

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As businesses across the world get disrupted amidst the coronavirus pandemic, a ‘new normal’ is on the horizon. Social distancing has become the basic requirement for now and is likely to remain so even in the post-pandemic era. While factoring in ‘social distancing’ in our personal lives seems challenging enough from a long-term perspective, the impact that it has had, and will continue to have, in the business world is far and beyond. This podcast focuses on opportunities in the post-pandemic world for Startups and MSMEs.

 The podcast is based on an article published in YourStory in June 2020. You may read the article on https://yourstory.com/2020/05/opportunities-lie-ahead-startups-msme-post-pandemic

Authors: L. Badri Narayanan, Executive Partner (L&S); Kunal Arora, Joint Partner (L&S); and Gunmeher Juneja, Principal Associate (L&S)
Voice: Rishabh Chopra, Joint Partner (L&S) 

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COVID-19 has strained the Indian healthcare sector unlike ever before. While hospitals and healthcare professionals struggle to meet the continuously increasing demand, the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries have been presented with a novel challenge as well as opportunity to develop vaccine and remedial drugs for COVID-19. Concurrently, pharmaceutical companies are also besieged with the need for other critical and essential medication for domestic consumption and exports.

 Author: Neelambera Sandeepan, Joint Partner (L&S)
 Voice: Gunmeher Juneja, Principal Associate (L&S)

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When the ‘Right to Privacy’ was recognised as a fundamental right under the Constitution of India by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, it was noted that there is a requirement to have a legislation in place to protect the informational privacy of persons in India. Such a legislation would necessarily have to strike a balance between individual interests and the legitimate concerns of the state as well as that of organisation who sought to use data for providing digital services.

 Keeping in mind the outline provided by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, the PDP Bill seeks to provide a legislative mechanism that we try and cover in this podcast.

 This podcast is based on an article published on L&S website in May 2020. Article link is https://lakshmisri.com/insights/articles/personal-data-protection-in-india/

Authors: Charanya Lakshmikumaran, Partner (L&S) and Prashant Phillip, Partner (L&S)
Voice: Rishabh Chopra, Joint Partner (L&S)

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This podcast endeavors to bring to the attention of the listeners major rulings passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the last five years on Indirect taxation. These rulings will have significant impact in settling disputes and reducing pendency at all levels of adjudication.

This is based on an article published by our attorneys in May 2020 on Taxmann, the link to which is https://gst.taxmann.com//fileopennew.aspx?id=105010000000017713&mode=home&page=ts

Authors: Charanya Lakshmikumaran, Partner (L&S) and Aditya Bhattacharya, Joint Partner (L&S)
Voice: Rishabh Chopra, Joint Partner (L&S)

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