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The Resurgence of Schemes of Arrangement in Insolvency and Liquidation

Schemes of arrangement have historically been available under Indian company law as a means to carry out corporate debt restructuring. However, as I have found in this paper, schemes were hardly used for this purpose in India. The enactment of … Continue reading

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Ordinance to Ban Unregulated Deposit Schemes: Bridging the Regulatory Gap

[Anirban Roy Choudhury is a banking and finance lawyer and an LL.M. (Finance) candidate at the Institute for Law and Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt]   In spite of various legislation, including the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978 … Continue reading

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The Risks of Quid Pro Quo Link Schemes

Search engines are in the business of finding users relevant and important websites for a given search query, and then selling ad space on the search engine results page (SERP). Of course, this means that search engines need to provide … Continue reading

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TWiL 443: Popularity Ponzi Schemes

In this episode, Denise and Stefan discuss how the EU's highest court had to wake up and taste the cheese to decide whether taste is copyrightable, and how the EU's copyright directive might be financially unfeasible even for YouTube. They … Continue reading

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SEC News – Flipping Bonds, Kickback Schemes, and Offering Fraud

Citigroup to Pay More Than $10 Million for Books and Records Violations and Inadequate ControlsCitigroup has agreed to pay $10.5 million in penalties to settle two enforcement actions involving its books and records, internal accounting controls, and trader supervision. The … Continue reading

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