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The mistakes that matter under India's insolvency regime changed substantially in 2026. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026 (Act No. 6 of 2026), received presidential assent on 6 April 2026, and the majority of its provisions were brought into force from 26 May 2026. It is the most significant restructuring of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (the "Code") since its enactment, and several of the assumptions that guided creditor and debtor conduct b

Most commercial disputes are decided long before anyone reaches a tribunal. They are decided in the drafting, in the clause nobody negotiated, in the shareholder arrangement that was never carried into the articles, and in the board resolution that was never properly recorded. By the time the disagreement surfaces, the documents have already allocated the risk. Corporate advisory is the practice of making that allocation deliberate rather than accidental. This is a different

An arbitrator is not a private judge for hire. The authority to decide a dispute, bind commercial parties, and render an award that courts across jurisdictions will enforce carries duties that begin before appointment and end only with the award. In international commercial arbitration, parties from different legal systems, sometimes shareholders in a cross-border company and sometimes ordinary contract counterparties, submit their dispute to a tribunal of their own choosing.