The Competition & Commercial Law Review

[Varun Pandey & Neelam Kumari are final year student at School of Law, UPES] Introduction The twenty-first century ushered in a new era for Electricity Laws as well as Antitrust Law in India with the objective of unbundling the power sector regulators. Further, The Electricity Act, 2003, was designed to infuse competition and trading of electricity in a smooth and non-discriminatory manner. In an effort to ease the onus on Distribution Companies (Discoms) of providing consist

[Akshay Sharma is a Delhi-based lawyer and Lavanya Pathak is a final-year student at National University For Study And Research In Law, Ranchi] Recently, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on 13.07.2020 in the case of Vijay K. Aiyer v. Bharti Airtel Ltd. held that dues cannot be set off during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) of a Corporate Debtor under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC Code). This being a much-required clarifica

[Pranay Bhattacharya is a fourth-year student at Maharashtra National Law University, Aurangabad] A landmark development by National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Mumbai in Indus Biotech Private Limited v. Kotak India Venture Fund, whereby a Section 7 application (Initiation of corporate insolvency resolution process by the financial creditor) under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) have been referred to Section 8 (Power to refer parties to arbitration where there is