The growing and evolving commercial landscape of doing business in India, makes the need for exploring creative transaction structures and availing related regulatory and commercial benefits, imminent.

Dentons Link Legal is pleased to announce the launch of the first edition of our “The GIFT-IFSC Series”. While India’s maiden international financial center continues to evolve, this series aims at presenting a compilation of reference guide(s) setting out the key regulatory know-how for doing business in Gift City. The first edition of The GIFT-IFSC Series comprises:

Part I – “IFSC at GIFT-City - Contouring Indian Economy in Global Finance” – which is a holistic snapshot of the regulatory framework (including related incentives) of doing business in Gift City in various sectors and activities, including, Aviation leasing and financing; Banking, Finance and Insurance; Data Centres; setting up of Alternate Investments Funds, etc.

Part II – “Navigating the New Skies Aircraft Leasing and Financing in GIFT-City, India” – which sets out the regulatory framework for aircraft leasing from GIFT-City while correlating it with practical aspects, such as, key incentives and concerns.

Part III – “Unlocking Potential - Exploring Alternate Investment Funds in GIFT-City” – which sets out, inter-alia, the regulatory regime governing setting-up of and transacting business as Alternate Investment Funds in GIFT-City. To make the theory closer to practice, this Part also briefly identifies the key areas of evolution required for further ease of doing business from Gift City, in this sector.

This first edition has been authored by Managing Partner Anand Srivastava and Partner Namita Das, and co-contributed by Senior Associate Sydrah Sarfaraz and Associates Prakriti Singh, Abhay Goyal and Yash Goyal.

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