IBA India Working Group
About the India Working Group
The India Working Group (IWG) was set up in late 2016 and is made up of 28 lawyers representing firms across India. The IWG was formed to act in an advisory capacity to the IBA officers of the Asia Pacific Regional Forum (APF), senior IBA officers and the Asia Office regarding various aspects of the IBA’s activities in India and specific to Indian members. The main aims of the IWG are to engage Indian members to become more actively involved in IBA activities, to increase the number of Indian members of the IBA, and to identify and implement ways the IBA can assist lawyers in India with issues pertinent to the legal profession there.
Click here to view the IWG Charter
Click here to view current members of the IWG
Contact the IWG
If you have any thoughts, questions, or contributions, please get in touch with IWG Co-Chairs: Satyajit Gupta at satyajit.gupta@gmail.com and Ramesh Vaidyanathan at ramesh@advayalegal.com.
Recent Asia Pacific Regional Forum publications
Thailand: recent trends toward more stringent regulation of digital assets in Thailand
The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken numerous steps to strengthen and expand the regulatory regime covering digital asset operators in Thailand. This has resulted in several enforcement actions against violators, including issues in connection with fabricated information on the trading volume of digital assets on a digital asset exchange.
Released on Dec 21, 2022
Revolutionising the board governance of environmental, social and corporate governance: voluntary constitution of ESG committees by Indian listed companies
There is a discernible trend of Indian listed companies suo moto constituting ESG committees of its board of directors and/or management to focus on ESG-related aspects and to strengthen their commitment to ESG. This piece discusses this trend in the making.
Released on Dec 21, 2022
Promulgation of Measures for Compliance Management of Central Enterprises put forward stricter requirements for compliance of central enterprises
This article analyses ‘the Measures’ put forward by China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, which offer more precise and stricter requirements for the central enterprises to enhance compliance management through departmental rules.
Released on Oct 28, 2022
Taiwan real estate inheritance case study
There are mainly two ways of distributing real estate inheritance in Taiwan: allocating real estate to certain successors while reimbursing others, or forcibly selling the real estate and equally distributing the proceeds.
Released on Jun 22, 2022
Pakistan tightens restrictions on social media giants
This article considers Pakistan’s crackdown on social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, and the relationship between these restrictions and the right to freedom of expression.
Released on Jun 22, 2022
Sustainability-linked derivatives: will India be a world leader in the next stage of green finance?
This article explores India’s position among the growing movement to align the global financial system with sustainable development.
Released on Jun 22, 2022
An introduction to India’s new privacy regime
This article offers an overview of India’s new draft data privacy law.
Released on Jun 22, 2022
An interpretation of the Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access (Negative List) (2021)
This article provides an interpretation of China’s Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access, as introduced in December 2021.
Released on Jun 22, 2022
Exhaustion of rights and liability for joint tort – the hazards of e-commerce platforms
With the pandemic hitting hard, online shopping has become the new normal. The pandemic accelerated the shift towards a more digital world and fuelled e-commerce growth, not just on a business-to-consumer basis but on a consumer-to-consumer basis as goods and services become more ‘fluid’ and transactions become less territorial. This article considers the hazards of using e-commerce platforms for various transactions.
Released on Apr 29, 2022
Data compliance: challenges to foreign companies doing business in and relating to China
The Chinese data protection legislations, although they transplant many ideas contained in the GDPR, form a different regime for data protection. This article observes China’s key data protection laws and the challenges these pose to foreign companies doing business in China.
Released on Apr 29, 2022

Tahera Mandviwala
Co-Chair
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Ashish Razdan
Co-Chair
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Arush Khanna
Vice Chair
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L Badri Narayanan
Vice Chair
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