April 2022 - S&R Associates

Testing the Frontiers of the Insider Trading Regulations

Insights | April 25, 2022 | Practice Area: Capital Markets, Corporate Governance and ESG, General Corporate, Regulatory

By an order issued on January 14, 2022, the United States District Court, Northern District of California allowed the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to proceed on the misappropriation theory of insider trading in its “shadow trading” complaint against Matthew Panuwat. The SEC had alleged that Panuwat used confidential information about the acquisition of his employer, Medivation, to buy options in another publicly traded company and Medivation’s peer, Incyte. This note discusses the circumstances in which trading in securities of a company while in possession of information related to another company may be considered a violation of the Indian Insider Trading Regulations.

S&R Associates Welcomes New Partner

News & Announcements | April 19, 2022 |

We are pleased to announce that Sumit Bansal has joined S&R Associates as a retained partner. Sumit will lead the Firm’s tax practice and is based in the New Delhi office.

The PVR-INOX Merger: Bouncing Back from the Pandemic

Legal Updates | April 6, 2022 | Practice Area: Competition/Antitrust

On March 27, 2022, PVR Limited announced that it proposes to merge with INOX Leisure Limited. The combined entity will be rebranded as ‘PVR INOX’ and will have a network of 1,546 theatres. Ordinarily, a deal of such magnitude would have required prior approval from the Competition Commission of India, however the decreased revenue of the parties owing to the pandemic appears to have provided a unique benefit to this deal. This note analyzes the market positions of PVR and INOX, the role of the CCI, and the target based exemption that is applicable to this deal.