We are pleased to announce that Meher Mehta and Oishika Dasgupta have been designated as counsel at S&R Associates.

We are pleased to announce that Meher Mehta and Oishika Dasgupta have been designated as counsel at S&R Associates.
We are pleased to announce that Ajinkya Gunjan Mishra has joined S&R Associates as a partner based in the Firm’s New Delhi office, and is joined by associates Avani Tewari and Tarusha Airan.
We are pleased to announce that William Vivian John has joined S&R Associates as a partner based in the Firm’s Mumbai office, and is joined by associates Siddhi Kudalkar, Riyan Vatcha, Arunima Vijay, Chirali Jain and Shubhangi Rai.
We are pleased to announce that Swapneil Akut, Raya Hazarika and Pratichi Mishra have been designated as retained partners at S&R Associates. We are also pleased to announce that Akshat Kulshrestha, Kinnari Sanghvi and Prateek Sharma have been designated as counsel at the Firm.
We are pleased to announce that Deborshi Barat has joined S&R Associates as counsel based in the Firm’s New Delhi office.
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.
We are pleased to announce that Swapneil Akut has joined S&R Associates as counsel based in the Firm’s Mumbai office, and is joined by associate Taneesh Shah.
We are pleased to announce that Rachita R. Bhat, Raunaq Bahadur Mathur, Dhruv Nath, Lakshmi Pradeep and Abhishek Tewari have been designated as retained partners at S&R Associates. We are also pleased to announce that Kanika Khanna has been designated as counsel at the Firm.
We are pleased to announce that Jitesh Shahani has joined S&R Associates as a partner based in the Firm’s Mumbai office.
In light of the growing trend of private equity (“PE”) firms acquiring minority stakes in multiple firms in the same sector, the Competition Commission of India (the “CCI”) has recently announced a market study to analyse the incentives and rights associated with such minority investments, and their impact on competition in India. There is a lack of clarity around situations in which a PE investor is required to notify a proposed minority acquisition to the CCI, and it is hoped that the CCI’s proposed market study will inform improvements to this framework, in order to bolster certainty and investor confidence. In this context, this note provides an overview of the existing Indian merger control framework vis-à-vis ‘minority acquisitions’, including the uncertainty currently surrounding the notifiability of such transactions, and suggests a possible way forward.