Dr. (Prof.) T.S. Somashekar is the Director, Centre for Competition and Regulation, NLSIU I. Background An inescapable part of our lives is the way AI influences daily activities, directly or indirectly, in incredibly diverse ways, with enormous implications for productivity across sectors and for direct consumer benefit. The pace of technological evolution is rapid in this segment, and tech firms are quickly adjusting their strategies to retain or enhance their

Prof. Alberto Heimler is a Retired Professor of Economic Regulation, National School of Government, Rome Over the past decade, a handful of digital platforms have come to play an extraordinary role in our economic and social lives. Google shapes how we search for information, Apple controls major mobile ecosystems, Amazon has transformed retail, and Meta’s platforms have become essential tools of communication for billions of people. Their success has brought enormous benefit

Manas Kumar Chaudhuri is a Senior Partner at Khaitan & Co LLP. The evolution of competition law in India (the Competition Act, or the Act) has been slow, and at times surprising, even now — despite the Act having come into being in early 2003. The reasons for the slower development of the jurisprudence are briefly summarised below. As soon as the Act received the assent of the President of India, a writ petition was filed by a private litigant against the composition and stru

Viraj Thakur is a fourth-year student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. The Supreme Court of India (‘SC’) in Competition Commission of India v. Schott Glass India Pvt. Ltd. (“Schott Glass”) analysed whether certain commercial arrangements amounted to an abuse of dominant position (“AoDP”) under §4 of the Competition Act, 2002 (“Act”). Holding that it did not (¶77), the SC observed that a finding of AoDP necessitates an effects-based analysis (¶1). Har

Vikram Raj Nanda is a fourth-year student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. Introduction Recently, the Parliament enacted the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026, which amends the proviso to Section 31(4) in a manner that allows the Resolution Professional, in cases where a Resolution Plan involves a ‘combination’, to obtain approval from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ‘before the resolution plan is submitted to the Adjudic

This article asks whether India’s merger control framework can reach transactions that resemble hiring in form but function as acquisitions in substance.