Competition Law in India: A Practical Guide 2nd ed (eBook)

Competition Law in India is a comprehensive, pragmatic guide outlining how competition law is interpreted in the significant global market. In the last few years, the Competition Commission of India has been highly assertive in its enforcement outlook, especially in the digital markets. Additionally, the proliferation of investment activity has led the relevance of competition law in India to grow.

What’s in this book:

Elucidating the key aspects of Indian competition law, the author, a leading competition law practitioner, describes the following elements of Indian competition law:

• the dual regulatory-judicial nature of the Competition Commission
• investigatory powers of the Commission’s Director General
• mandated business conduct policies (e.g., active risk management procedures)
• availability of sanctions, remedies, and private actions
• cartels and leniency programmes
• extraterritorial application of the Competition Commission
• merger review
  
  
• pricing and non-pricing abuse
• approach in digital markets
• appeal process
• fines – companies, directors and officers
• fines for non-cooperation or furnishing false information, and
• liability of state-owned enterprises

Analysis of numerous leading cases decided by the Indian competition authorities amplifies the book’s practical value.

How this will help you:

This comprehensive guide offers a nonpareil overview of practice in a key jurisdiction that is increasingly becoming one of the most important in the international recognition and enforcement of competition law. As a guide to the ‘landscape’ of competition law in India, it has no peers. The book will be of immeasurable value to professionals in this area of legal practice, whether in law firms, corporations, academia, government or the judiciary, as well as to investors, economists and business.