If an asset is physically located within India, Indian Revenue has a legitimate tax claim on its disposition.  But a recent case, involving the sale of a telecom company, challenged the taxability of such dispositions. Factual Background: In 2005, Vodafone acquired a stake in India’s largest telecom operator, Airtel. India was a huge market, so […]

By Dan W. Puchniak, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Author of the forthcoming article in the Berkeley Business Law Journal, “The Derivative Action in Asia: A Complex Reality.” In this era of globalization, the field of comparative corporate law has come of age.   With corporations and capital increasingly transcending national borders, […]

By Ana Amodaj, J.D. Candidate 2014, UC Berkeley School of Law LegalZoom, the leading provider of non-lawyer online legal services to consumers, filed an S-1 form last month for an IPO seeking to raise as much as $120 million. Recent success and expansion of companies like LegalZoom into the market for affordable legal services has […]