Nishimura & Asahi Advised ES-CON JAPAN Ltd. on its investment in a condominium development project in Thailand

Nishimura & Asahi advised ES-CON JAPAN Ltd. on its investment in a condominium development project in Thailand The international law firm in Japan, Nishimura & Asahi advised ES-CON JAPAN Ltd. [TSE: 8892] on its investment in the condominium project “Origin Place Chaengwattana” in Thailand. The project is being developed by Origin Property Public Company Limited

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Call for Submissions NUALS Intellectual Property Law Review (Vol. VII) [Submit by March 1, 2026]

The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi, is inviting submissions for the NUALS Intellectual Property Law Review (Vol. VII). Interested authors can send their submissions by March 1, 2026. For more details, please read their call for papers below. Call for Submissions: NUALS Intellectual Property

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (19.01.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles! We’re kicking things off with fresh uploads on SpicyIP TV, including the Book Review Symposium on Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia: Law, Development and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Dr. Pratyush Nath Upreti, with Shama Mahajan, Akshat Agrawal  and Prof. Ishupal Singh Kang as guest speakers (recording available on LinkedIn

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Trilegal Advised Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC On Its Acquisition Of VentureCount Service Holdings (Tarsus).

Trilegal advised Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC on its acquisition of VentureCount Service Holdings (Tarsus) The leading law firm in India, Trilegal represented Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC in connection with its acquisition of VentureCount Service Holdings, LLC d/b/a Tarsus, a leading accounting and advisory firm providing services including outsourced accounting, bookkeeping, real-time financial reporting, KPI reporting,

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Senior Executive Leadership Education Programme on Arbitration, Mediation & International Dispute Resolution at London | SGT University

Faculty of Law, Shree Guru Gobind Tricentenary (SGT) University in partnership with UK India Legal Partnership (UKILP) is organising a 4-Day Senior Executive Leadership Education Programme on Arbitration, Mediation & International Dispute Resolution at London from March 23, 2026 to March 26, 2026. This opportunity is part of our collaboration with Queen Mary University of

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 12 – January 18)

A post critiquing the Bombay HC judgment in Anand Khosla on the arbitrability of IP disputes. Does the DHC’s reaffirmation in Zydus v. Controller that patent examination and pre-grant opposition operate in different parallel raise concerns about natural justice? A post discussing the same. And another post examining DHC’s decision in Pearl Engineering v. Philips

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Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy Advised IFC On Its First Investment In A Securitization Transaction In Egypt

Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy advised IFC on its first investment in a securitization transaction in Egypt The leading full-service MENA (Middle East and North Africa) law firm, Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy (“MBH”) acted as Egyptian legal counsel to the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”) on its first investment in a securitization transaction in Egypt. The transaction

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Prison Walls Cannot Nullify the Right to Medical Treatment

The deprivation of personal liberty through incarceration does not entail the forfeiture of all fundamental rights. Among the most non-derogable of these is the right to health and medical treatment. Indian constitutional jurisprudence has consistently affirmed that imprisonment curtails freedom of movement but does not extinguish the right to life under Article 21 of the

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3rd National Pro Bono & Legal Aid Conclave | NFSU Gandhinagar

School of Law, Forensic Justice and Policy Studies, National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar is organizing its 3rd National Pro Bono & Legal Aid Conclave, scheduled to be held from 07th to 08th March 2026. About the Institution The National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), formerly known as Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, is the world’s first university

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The Bankers Are Coming: RBI’s Architecture for Bank-Financed Takeovers

[Rudraksh Misra is a 3rd Year B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) Student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur] In October 2025, the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) issued the draft RBI (Commercial Banks – Capital Market Exposure) Directions, 2025 (‘RBI Draft Directions’) proposing to allow banks to finance corporate takeovers, a marked departure from decades of regulations that effectively barred banks from funding such acquisitions.

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