Britain's Cairn Energy Plc has dropped lawsuits against the Indian government and its entities in the U.S. and other places and is in the final stages of withdrawing cases in Paris and the Netherlands to get back about ₹7,900 crore that were collected from it to enforce a retrospective tax demand. As part of the settlement reached with the government …
Cairn Energy Plc has secured a French court order to freeze Indian assets in France after India challenged an award of over $1.2 billion to Cairn. Cairn began international arbitration in 2015 and won $1.2 billion in damages plus interest and costs last year, totalling more than $1.7 billion. In May 2018, ConocoPhillips got court orders to seize Venezuela’s state …
UK's Cairn Energy has identified $ 70 billion of Indian assets overseas for potential seizure to collect $ 1.72 billion due from the government -- a move if successful will put India in league with Pakistan and Venezuela which faced similar enforcement action over failure to pay arbitration awards. Cairn plans to move courts in the US to Singapore for …
A retroactive law is truly a monstrosity. The tribunal reasoned that India’s decision to retroactively apply the law, without a specific justification, created a new tax burden on a transaction that was not taxable at the time it was carried out, ie. in 2006 In 2012, India amended the Income Tax Act retroactively to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision favouring …