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Presumption of Guilt: SC’s Insider Trading Ruling Recalibrates SEBI Enforcement
The Death of the "Innocent Explanation" in Insider Trading Defense The Supreme Court’s decision in SEBI v. Rajeev Vasant Sheth (2026 SCC OnLine SC 1539) represents the most significant hardening of insider trading jurisprudence since the 2015 Regulat...
The Presumption Trap: Supreme Court Rewrites Insider Trading Defence in SEBI v. Rajeev Vasant Sheth
The Death of the "Innocent Trade" Defence? The Supreme Court's ruling in SEBI v. Rajeev Vasant Sheth has fundamentally altered the landscape of insider trading enforcement in India. By holding that Regulation 4(1) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider ...
The 2026 Amendment Bill and the Quiet Rewriting of Indian Corporate Law
The Real Story Is Not SEBI's Penalties — It Is the Legislative Reset Underway The headline-grabbers this quarter are easy enough to spot: SEBI's ₹1 crore penalty on CDSL for pledge-handling and cybersecurity lapses, and the reported ₹1.508 crore sett...
The Supreme Court Is Rewriting the Rules of Insolvency Practice — And Corporate Lawyers Need to Pay Attention
A Month of Doctrinal Shifts at the Apex Court October 2026 has delivered what may be the most consequential cluster of insolvency law pronouncements since the IBC came into force. The Supreme Court has, in rapid succession, clarified — and in some ca...
Possession Plus Trade Equals Liability: The Supreme Court’s Insider Trading Ruling Rewrites the Defence Playbook
The Death of the "Innocent Reason" Defence The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on insider trading marks the most significant hardening of securities law doctrine since the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 came into force. By sett...
Supreme Court's Triple Strike on IBC Practice: Limitation, Fraud, and the Finality of CoC Wisdom
The Finality of Commercial Wisdom In a trilogy of rulings that will fundamentally alter how insolvency practitioners approach resolution strategies, the Supreme Court has drawn sharp lines around the IBC's procedural and substantive architecture. The...
Supreme Court's Insider Trading Ruling Rewrites the Rules: Possession of UPSI Now Equals Presumption of Guilt
The Presumption That Changes Everything The Supreme Court's recent ruling on insider trading marks a fundamental shift in how SEBI enforcement actions will unfold. By holding that Regulation 4(1) of the Prohibition of Insider Trading Regulations crea...
The Supreme Court Just Made Insider Trading Prosecution Nearly Automatic — And Nobody Is Talking About It
The Possession Presumption Is Now Law In a ruling that should be on every securities litigator's desk, the Supreme Court in August 2026 settled one of the most contested questions under SEBI's Prohibition of Insider Trading Regulations, 2015. The Cou...
Supreme Court Rewrites Insider Trading Defence: Possession of UPSI is Now Enough
The Death of the "Innocent Intent" Defence In a significant recalibration of securities enforcement jurisprudence, the Supreme Court has held that once possession of unpublished price sensitive information (UPSI) and trading during its currency are e...
A Fraudulent Petition, a Live CIRP: The Supreme Court's IBC Message and What It Means for Practice
The development that matters most Among this season's insolvency developments, the most consequential is the Supreme Court's reported holding that a CIRP can continue even if the insolvency plea that triggered it was fraudulent . Read with the other ...
NCLAT's Demat Defrost: The IBC Just Ate Securities Law (And Why Your Insolvency Practice Will Never Be the Same)
The Jurisdictional Coup Nobody Saw Coming In a pair of rulings that should have every securities lawyer reaching for their casebooks, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has effectively declared that when the Insolvency and Bankruptcy...
SEBI's Demat Freeze Gambit Signals a New Era of Coercive Compliance — And Promoters Should Be Worried
SEBI's Graduated Enforcement: From Disclosure to Demat Freeze The Securities and Exchange Board of India has proposed what may be its most intrusive compliance mechanism yet — empowering stock exchanges to alert depositories to freeze promoters' dema...
The Writ Route Is Dead: Why the Supreme Court’s IBC Discipline and NCLT’s Record Quarter Mark a Turning Point for Indian Insolvency Practice
The Supreme Court Draws a Hard Line on IBC Appeals The most consequential development for insolvency practitioners in recent months is not a new amendment or a regulatory circular—it is the Supreme Court’s unequivocal reinforcement that Section 61 of...
Fraud Unravels Everything? Not Under the IBC: How the Supreme Court Upended Insolvency Jurisprudence in 2026
The Death of an Age-Old Maxim in Corporate Insolvency For decades, Indian civil litigators have relied on a foundational legal maxim: Fraus et jus nunquam cohabitant —fraud and justice never dwell together. The established common law position, cement...
As SEBI Settles Adani’s MPS Violations for Peanuts, the Supreme Court Tightens the Noose on IBC Promoters
For Indian corporate lawyers, the closing months of 2026 have delivered a masterclass in the stark dualities of our regulatory and insolvency regimes. On one end of the spectrum, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has signaled that hig...
The Supreme Court Rings the Bell on NCLT Overreach: Section 14 Limits, Benami Attachments, and the End of the Writ Bypass
For the past few years, the Indian corporate insolvency landscape has been suffering from a severe case of jurisdictional bloat. Litigants have treated the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) as a one-stop-shop for all corporate ailments, and the In...
The Shrinking Shield: Supreme Court Redraws IBC Boundaries While SEBI Opts for the Settlement Route
The End of the Article 226 Bypass For years, a standard tactical playbook for corporate debtors facing an adverse National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) order—particularly liquidation—has been to sprint to the nearest High Court with an Article 226 wri...
The Promoter's Shield: SEBI’s Pocket-Change Settlements vs. The Supreme Court's IBC Crackdown
A Tale of Two Regimes: Leniency in Securities, Strictness in Insolvency For Indian corporate lawyers, late September 2026 has offered a stark masterclass in the dichotomy of Indian regulatory and judicial frameworks. On one hand, we have a securities...
Supreme Court Tightens the Noose on Promoters, But NCLT's Infrastructure Collapses Under Its Own Weight
The Bitter Irony of India’s Insolvency Regime in 2026 For Indian corporate litigators, the latter half of 2026 presents a schizophrenic reality. On one hand, the Supreme Court of India has delivered a masterclass in statutory interpretation, providin...
The NCLT is Not Your Recovery Agent: Tribunals Crack Down on IBC Abuse as RBI Flexes Muscle Against Tata Sons
The End of "Arm-Twisting" Jurisprudence in the IBC For years, a poorly kept secret in Indian corporate litigation has been the weaponization of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). Operational Creditors (OCs) routinely file Section 9 petitions n...
The End of the Promoter's Free Ride: Supreme Court Ring-Fences Section 14 Moratoriums as NCLT Cracks Down on Tactical Settlements
September 2026 has delivered a rude awakening to corporate promoters who treat the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) as a personal panic room. In a string of decisive developments across the Supreme Court and the National Company Law Tribunal (NCL...
Shifting Goalposts in Corporate Litigation: SC Narrows IBC Triggers While Widening SEBI’s Insider Trading Net
The Supreme Court Cleans House in Corporate Law If the 2026 judicial calendar has proven anything so far, it is that the Supreme Court of India is rapidly losing patience with procedural adventurism. Across the spectrum of corporate litigation—from t...
Justice Delayed, Haircuts Multiplied: Supreme Court Cracks the Whip on Crumbling NCLT Infrastructure While Tightening the Screws on Promoters
The Procedural Collapse of the 330-Day Dream For insolvency practitioners, the irony of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has become impossible to ignore. A statute birthed to ensure time-bound resolution—famously capped at 330 days under Sect...
The Supreme Court Trims IBC Fat While NCLT Gasps for Breath: Corporate Law’s 2026 Reality Check
For corporate litigators, 2026 is shaping up to be a year of stark contradictions. On one hand, the Supreme Court is delivering razor-sharp jurisprudence, systematically trimming the jurisdictional overreach of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT...
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