Greater Speed and Efficiency: Steps IP Offices Around the World Are Taking to Streamline the Patent Process
Corruption, Crime & Compliance - Episode 208 - A Deep Dive into the WPP FCPA SEC Settlement
Compliance Perspectives: Compliance Challenges in India
Global Growth: A Prime Opportunity for the Middle Market
Cross-Border Update on Investing and Doing Business in the United States
The Pepper Five: On U.S. – India Issues
The House and Senate passed the tax bill, which includes a provision to end the de minimis exemption for all e-commerce effective July 1, 2027. The bill now goes to the President for his signature. The de minimis exemption...more
BlackRock Inc. will sell out of all companies “that get more than 25% of sales from thermal coal.” This threshold, however, won’t affect larger, diversified miners—which includes some of the biggest coal shippers....more
After almost four years of the largest and most ambitious effort in history to transform a nation with technology, India is looking ahead to protecting the data that it is generating. ...more
The draft National E-Commerce Policy (“Draft Policy”) released by the Government of India on February 23, 2019 for stakeholder comments, has left the e-commerce sector in jitters. For global market players, the protectionist...more
India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion issued Press Note 2 of 2018 (the Press Note) on December 26, 2018, amending the applicable conditions for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Indian ecommerce sector...more
GICs offer advantages for exploiting big data and staying competitive. Data is the fuel of the 21st-century economy. Companies must manage and exploit data and digital technologies in an innovative, agile and cost...more
Despite the headwinds facing Indian e-commerce start-ups, some of which had irrational cost structures and business models based solely on discounts, the overall success and potential of this sector, as well as its...more
In Press Note No. 3 released on 29 March 2016 the Government of India (Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion) announced that foreign direct investment (“FDI”) of up to 100% would be...more
Leading law firms Pepper Hamilton and Khaitan & Co. will be joining together to discuss: • Start-Up India - India’s newly adopted regime for start-ups and what it means for foreign investors and IT and e-commerce providers...more