This podcast explores the evolving framework of data protection and privacy law in India, with a focus on statutory developments, regulatory approaches, and emerging jurisprudence. It examines key concepts such as personal data, lawful processing, data fiduciaries, and enforcement mechanisms, while analysing their implications for businesses, individuals, and cross-border data flows within the broader global data protection landscape.

Dive into the world of GIFT City — India’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC). Explore conversations on global finance, fintech innovation, cross-border trade, taxation, regulations, and the future of India as a global financial hub.

In this podcast, we offer a brief overview of the Mediation Act, 2023, India’s standalone legislation on mediation, and discuss its key features and implications within the evolving alternative dispute resolution framework.

This podcast examines the legal, tax, and commercial considerations relevant to business transfers, including mergers, demergers, asset transfers, and restructuring transactions. It provides analytical insights into regulatory frameworks, transactional structuring, risk allocation, and compliance issues that influence the execution and outcomes of business transfer arrangements.

This podcast examines principles and practices of corporate governance, with a focus on legal frameworks, regulatory standards, and institutional accountability. It offers analytical perspectives on board oversight, compliance mechanisms, and governance reforms, highlighting their implications for organisations operating in complex regulatory environments.

This podcast engages with the legal and institutional framework governing insolvency and bankruptcy in India, with a focus on statutory developments, judicial interpretations, and regulatory practices. It offers analytical insights into insolvency resolution processes, creditor rights, and the evolving jurisprudence shaping the restructuring and resolution landscape.

This podcast examines legal, regulatory, and policy issues affecting the social sector, including non-profit organisations, social enterprises, and impact-driven initiatives. It offers analytical perspectives on governance frameworks, compliance obligations, and evolving regulatory approaches shaping the social sector in India and across jurisdictions.

This podcast engages with legal and regulatory issues affecting traditional and digital media, including content regulation, freedom of expression, platform governance, and intellectual property. It offers analytical perspectives on evolving statutory frameworks, judicial developments, and policy considerations shaping the media landscape in India and across jurisdictions.

This podcast examines regulatory frameworks governing emerging and established sectors, with a focus on statutory design, delegated legislation, and the role of regulatory authorities. It analyses compliance obligations, enforcement mechanisms, and institutional practices, while considering their impact on market participants, innovation, and governance in India and in cross-border contexts.

This podcast engages with doctrinal, procedural, and jurisprudential developments in dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, and alternative mechanisms. It offers analytical perspectives on evolving legal standards, institutional practices, and strategic considerations, with particular attention to their implications for dispute resolution in India and in cross-border contexts.

The world has changed since 2020 and so have we. The M&A ecosystem has undergone a shift because of the pandemic as companies had to reevaluate their priorities and strategies. What were the big changes and how did companies adapt? “Mergers and Acquisitions in the Post-pandemic Era” is a new podcast series where Nishith Desai Associates, in collaboration with Mphasis, takes you through all the changes in the M&A universe and what’s next.

At NDA, we believe in helping shape the future of law through deep research and thought leadership. Every new technology and its applications bring with them unique legal challenges. In each issue of this series, we analyze an emerging, just-over-the-horizon technology and offer our brief insights on its possible applications and important legal and other considerations.

In this podcast series, we explore the transformative world of digital lending in India—how technology is reshaping access to credit and driving financial inclusion. We’ll dive into the rise of innovative lending platforms, the challenges they face in navigating legal and regulatory frameworks, and the evolving landscape of fintech in the country. Join us as we analyze the impact of regulatory changes, both proposed and implemented, and their implications for the future of digital finance.

Dr. Milind Antani, Darren Punnen and Shreya Shenolikar have analysed the key regulations applicable to the pharma, medical device and the health-tech industry in this multi-part podcast series. This series starts off with the basics of pharmaceutical and medical device regulation and subsequently delves deeper to analyse how various aspects of the industry are regulated. Each episode begins with an overview of applicable regulation, how the regulation applies to the industry and ends by providing some practical inputs on how stakeholders should approach this space.

Lookout circulars (LOCs) are in the nature of alerts at the ports of entry against individuals involved in cognisable offences. While certain actions may be proposed against such individuals, they may be deemed evasive or not cooperative. In such cases, certain designated Indian authorities may issue such LOCs. In this podcast, we explore (a) the circumstances under which LOCs can be issued; (b) the process of issuing LOCs and authorities who can issue LOCs; (c) remedies available when LOCs are issued.

In our first podcast on the drones sector, we delve into some of the key opportunities that exist in this sector, both for domestic and foreign players. We discuss the Drone Rules, FDI considerations, Make in India opportunities, import restrictions as well as key aspects of public procurement in India.

In a recent podcast conducted by Deepanshu Singal with Dr. Mansi Kedia and Mr. Meyyappan Nagappan, the concept of Global Minimum Tax was assessed, with regard to the new tax in terms of its working and its profound impact on developing economies, especially India, and Multinational Companies in general. The topic has recently been a subject of deliberation as various countries, including India are estimated to benefit hugely from the implication of a global minimum tax. It is particularly interesting because of its magnitude and the zeal with which several countries, developing and developed alike, seem to be working on this. Global Minimum Tax undoubtedly is multi-layered and one needs to look at it more closely in order to understand its working and potential.

Vinay Shukla, Leader of the Antitrust team, takes you on a journey of antitrust, its principles and its business implications. The podcast is a part of NDA’s attempt to delve into how antitrust principles and precedents can be used to instruct strategy and ultimately transform companies into antitrust compliant and socially conscious businesses. Each episode begins with an overview of a pressing antitrust issue, its effect on an industry and subsequently discusses the learnings which could be extrapolated to inform business decisions.

Throughout history, traversing continents and peoples, two things have remained eternal – the pioneering spirit of mankind and the blue sky above. Science, philosophy and art have been conceived and nurtured under the blue sky. Big ideas and blue sky thinking has brought civilization to where it is today. This podcast series engages thought leaders, entrepreneurs, academics and politicians working to change the world for the better - together.