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Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is a full-service law firm based in India. The firm has offices in 14 cities and has over 500 professionals specializing in areas such as corporate & commercial laws, dispute resolution, taxation and intellectual property.

Over the last three decades, we have worked with a variety of clients – start-ups, small & medium enterprises, large Indian corporates and multinational companies.

Our professionals have experience of working in both traditional sectors such as commodities, automobile, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals and modern sectors such as e-commerce, big data, renewables.

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`5 August 2025

Report of Expert Committee on positioning GIFT IFSC as Global Commodity Trading Hub

The International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA) had constituted an Expert Committee on Positioning GIFT IFSC as a Global Commodity Trading Hub (‘Committee’) in May 2024 to enable commodity trading in the International Financial Services Centre, GIFT City, Gandhinagar (‘IFSC’) with an aim to integrate IFSC ecosystem with global trade flow and capitalise on the integration opportunities with the global commodity hubs.

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`7 July 2025

Substitution of assets attached by the Enforcement Directorate under PMLA: SC

In a recent case, the Hon’ble Supreme Court has passed an order (‘Order’)[1], allowing the substitution of provisionally attached assets with unencumbered, marketable commercial units offered by the Petitioner subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions.

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`01 July 2025

Refund of IGST on exports – Rule 96(10) stands omitted prospectively but is not applicable to pending proceedings

The Gujarat High Court has held that Rule 96(10) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 would stand omitted prospectively but would not be applicable to pending proceedings/cases where final adjudication has not taken place. Number of assessees were represented by Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys here.

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