The Competition & Commercial Law Review

[Aashi Sharma & Priyal Jain are fouth-year students at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab] Introduction Recently, British advertisers have filed a lawsuit against Google seeking up to 3 billion euros in compensation for its alleged abuse of dominance in the online display advertising market. However, this is not first in the series of pending and disposed antitrust law suits against the tech giant for favouring its own online display advertising services. Over t

[Aishani Agarwal and Amith Mathew Paul are fourth-year student at Gujarat National Law University] In the recent case of Home Care Retail Marts Pvt. Ltd. v. Haresh N. Sanghavi (“Home Care Retail”) the Supreme Court has handed down a ruling which finally resolved, albeit conclusively, a much debated but practical issue of Indian arbitration law. The issue pertained to whether the unsuccessful party in arbitral proceedings would be able to seek relief under Section 9 of the Arb

[Shubhranshu and Nishaan Potluri are undergraduate students at NALSAR University of Law] The Union Government recently notified the enforcement of India's new central labour codes. The new codes aim at consolidating twenty-nine fragmented central labour statutes into four comprehensive codes, the Industrial Relations Code, the Code on Wages, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code ("OSH Code") and the Code on Social Security. The main reason provided by t

[Vinayak Srivastava is a third year student at National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam] The Reserve Bank of India’s (“RBI”) amendment to the Commercial Banks – Capital Market Exposure Directions, issued on 13 February 2026, is not merely a regulatory update. It is, in a meaningful sense, the end of a long era of institutional caution. For decades, Indian commercial banks were largely kept out of acquisition financing, a market that thrived, in their absence, on fo

[Keshav Agarwal is a third year student at Gujarat National Law University] Introduction The Trade Receivables Discounting System (“TReDS”) was established for financing the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ("MSME") trade receivables through discounted invoices and factoring facilities. Some important provisions of the recently issued RBI TReDS Directions, 2026 concerning the assignment of receivables, without recourse financing, and re-discounting have made the TReDS mech