Sansa Law Desk

Your brand name, logo, or tagline is one of your most valuable business assets — and registering it as a trademark under the Trade Marks Act, 1999, read with the Trade Marks Rules, 2017, is the single most effective step you can take to protect it. A registered trademark gives you an exclusive right to use the mark in relation to your goods or services in India, the right to sue for infringement (which carries both civil and criminal remedies), and a public notice to competit

India's merger control regime underwent a fundamental transformation on 10 September 2024, when the Competition Commission of India (CCI) introduced the Deal Value Threshold (DVT) — a new trigger for mandatory pre-merger notification that captures high-value technology and startup acquisitions that previously escaped CCI scrutiny because the target had minimal assets or revenues. This shift, implemented through an amendment to the Competition Act, 2002, reflects India's deter

Raising foreign investment is a defining milestone for any Indian startup — but the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) and the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Foreign Exchange Management (Non-Debt Instruments) Rules, 2019 impose a strict compliance framework that startups must follow from the moment they receive foreign money. A FEMA violation is not merely a technical infraction: it can attract penalties of up to three times the contravention amount and create seriou