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Business News > Mint Authors > Kian Ganz

Kian Ganz

ARTICLES BY KIAN GANZ

A still from the movie Dishoom. As the piracy distribution network moves online, studios that produce movies like Dishoom are procuring John Doe orders in a bid to block access to websites and URLs.

The messy battle against online piracy

12 min read . 02 Aug 2016

Between April and December 2014, 92 new colleges were given the Bar Council’s blessings to start operations, according to information provided to the law ministry. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Bribery case exposes the rot in legal education

8 min read . 26 Jul 2016

Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf) has called a meeting of its members on 11 July. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/ Mint

Govt, Bar Council meet over entry of foreign law firms

2 min read . 05 Jul 2016

Some lawyers say that the Bar Council’s draft rules may have enough ‘poison pills’ that may attract the bar’s ire, such as allowing foreign law firms to arbitrate for foreign companies in India. Photo: Hindustan Times

Entry of foreign law firms far from a done deal

9 min read . 05 Jul 2016

Foreign lawyers would not be allowed to provide any legal advice relating to courts, tribunals, boards or statutory authorities. Photo: Mint

BCI drafts rules to allow foreign lawyers entry

2 min read . 02 Jul 2016

In less than three months to date, nearly as many law firm partner-level senior lawyers have moved as in the entire 2013-14 financial year. Photo: Mint

Top talent play musical chairs at law firms

8 min read . 21 Jun 2016

How Supreme Court chooses the Chief Justice of India

3 min read . 17 May 2016

Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Early law school hiring shows mixed trend

3 min read . 12 Apr 2016

The Panama Papers leak involved more than 11 million financial documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, published in India by ‘The Indian Express’. Photo: Reuters

Panama Papers coverage ‘unfair’ privacy invasion: Harish Salve

3 min read . 05 Apr 2016

Shardul Shroff. Photo: Mint

How Shardul Amarchand revamped its structure

9 min read . 29 Mar 2016

Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Making a case for using CFAs

4 min read . 12 Jan 2016

Vodafone has become a shorthand for Indian tax troubles, but in the last year or so, it has won several important high court decisions (though not for lack of resistance from government lawyers). Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Untangling the complex web of tax laws

8 min read . 02 Dec 2015

Only a tiny minority of advocates ever make it to the hallowed senior counsel ranks. At the Supreme Court, only 48 have been designated senior advocates since 1992. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

The senior counsel appointments row

10 min read . 02 Dec 2015

The devil we know is better than NJAC

4 min read . 20 Oct 2015

The ground reality of power is such that outside of Delhi the BCI has been unable—or unwilling historically—to wield any real influence on lawyers. Photo: Arun Sharma/Hindustan Times

Who will bell the legal cat?

3 min read . 06 Oct 2015

Flipkart hires Rajinder Sharma as new general counsel

1 min read . 26 Sep 2015

The original complaint against Google to CCI was made in 2012 by matrimonial site BharatMatrimony and was joined by Jaipur-based not-for-profit Consumer Unity and Trust Society. Photo: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg

Why did CCI write Google a bad report card?

10 min read . 16 Sep 2015

The appointment of two women to a large law firm’s top jobs is rare, if not unprecedented in a profession globally still dominated by men.

J Sagar Associates elects two women attorneys as joint managing partners

1 min read . 14 Sep 2015

Photo: Hindustan Times

How cases move through different high courts

6 min read . 26 Aug 2015

Govt asks ISPs to block porn websites

2 min read . 03 Aug 2015