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By Harsh Singh Dahiya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India | Partner, Sterling & Partners ——————————————————————————– A Shareholder Agreement (SHA) is the constitutional document of the investor-founder relationship. While the Articles of Association (AOA) of a company governs the internal management of the company as a public document filed with the Registrar of Companies, the SHA […]

By Harsh Singh Dahiya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India | Partner, Sterling & Partners ——————————————————————————– Foreign investment into India is governed by a layered regulatory framework in which the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) serves as the primary statute, supplemented by rules framed by the Central Government and regulations issued by the Reserve Bank […]

By Harsh Singh Dahiya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India | Partner, Sterling & Partners ——————————————————————————– India’s startup ecosystem is among the most dynamic in the world, yet the legal foundations that founders lay — or fail to lay — in the earliest months can define whether a company thrives or collapses under regulatory and investor […]

By Harsh Singh Dahiya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India | Partner, Sterling & Partners In the early hours of 15 March 2025, firefighters responding to a fire at 30 Tughlak Crescent, New Delhi — the official residence of Justice Yashwant Varma, then a judge of the Delhi High Court — discovered what witnesses described as […]

By Harsh Singh Dahiya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India | Partner, Sterling & Partners On 17 March 2026, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan delivered a judgment that fundamentally changed the legal landscape of maternity rights in India. In Hamsaanandini Nanduri v. Union of India, […]

By Harsh Singh Dahiya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India | Partner, Sterling & Partners On 24 March 2026, the Gujarat Legislative Assembly passed the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code, 2026 — after a debate lasting more than seven hours. With its enactment, Gujarat became the second state in India, after Uttarakhand, to legislate a comprehensive Uniform […]