J Sagar Associates (JSA) managing partner Berjis Desai and Aditya Birla Group GC Ashok Gupta debate whether the Right of First Refusal (ROFR) has now come back to life with the latest Bombay HC judgement in the latest episode.

This week’s The Firm asks whether we are doing too little too late about sexual harassment as the Protection Against Sexual Harassment of Women Bill still awaits enactment long after the government promised to put sexual harassment laws on the books 13 years ago.

“It looks fishy, it smells fishy,” host Menaka Doshi declared, opening this week’s episode of The Firm with a scorching observation. The burning question on the minds of panellists BMR Advisors partner Gokul Chaudhri, and FinSec Law Advisors founder Sandeep Parekh: can Sebi interfere with Vedanta’s Rs 50 per share non-compete fee paid to Cairn PLC as part of the acquisition of Cairn India?

SEBI is at it again, this time suggesting a possible merger of Indian Depository Receipts (IDRs) and delisting schemes at its 4 August board meeting. In the words of the regulator: “Some multinational companies with listed subsidiaries in India are exploring the possibility of delisting their shares through an exchange offer.” The Firm’s* panellists sat down and pondered possibilities.

The question on the panelists’ minds this week on CNBC-TV18’s The Firm: will the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) signal their approval of budding stock exchange MCX-SX’s capital reduction scheme by approving the company’s application to run as a full-fledged stock exchange. Menaka Doshi sat down with Vivek Gupta, Partner at BMR Advisors and Kartik Ganapathy, partner at Indus Law for some answers.

Last week’s episode of CNBC-TV18’s The Firm sat Takeover Regulations Advisory Committee (TRAC) members YM Deosthalee and Sourav Mallik opposite AZB & Partners’ Zia Mody and Amarchand Mangaldas’ Cyril Shroff to discuss some of the intended and unintended consequences of the proposed drastic overhaul of India’s takeover regulations.