Delhi High Court sought response of Future Retail on Amazon's plea challenging observations by a judge the US e-commerce giant's attempt to control Indian entity was violative of FEMA and FDI rules
Future and Amazon are at loggerheads over the Indian group's August deal with Reliance Industries Ltd
Future Group expects normal sales to return for its retail vertical by the end of January, almost a year after the business was severely hit by pandemic-related disruptions, Kishore Biyani said
Singaporean barrister Michael Hwang joins three-member arbitration tribunal at SIAC, which is looking into the dispute over Future Group's $3.4 bn deal with Reliance Industries
"Being totally disillusioned and fed up with your lackadaisical attitude, we were left with no option, but to accept the offer from the Reliance," Biyani said
Amazon and Future Group have written to market regulator Sebi with contrasting requests over a Rs 24,713 crore buyout of assets of India's second-largest retailer
Tech companies emerged winners from the pandemic, others quickly adapted to change and thrived, but some sank deeper into problems
Heritage Foods has sold its entire holding representing over 3 per cent stake in Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail for around Rs 132 crore in the open market to mainly repay its long term loans.
The company had pleaded that it be excluded from being a party on account of jurisdiction objection
The legal counsel of Amazon told the court that it had introduced Samara, an investor to Future and the term sheet was offered to solve its problems
Despite the dispute with Amazon, Future group and Reliance seem determined to execute their nearly Rs 25,000-cr transaction. What is Kishore Biyani left with?
Amazon is willing to 'sink the ship' but doesn't want Reliance to acquire Future's assets, says one analyst.
The court adjourned the hearing until Wednesday after a day-long hearing, which included arguments from the legal counsels of Amazon, Future and Reliance
The Future group firm has contended that Amazon is "misusing" the interim order passed by an emergency arbitrator of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) on October 25, 2020.
Corporate lawyers say Indian courts usually go along with orders given by foreign arbitration courts as witnessed in several cases before
According to the sources, Future group has been told not to proceed with its sale of shares to RIL till the outcome of the arbitration process
Time running out for Future Group, which has defaulted on debt payments
Future Group said it is not a party to the agreement under which Amazon has invoked arbitration proceedings and the deal cannot be held back through the arbitration process
This follows a dispute over Future's sale of its retail and wholesale businesses to MukeshAmbani-led Reliance Industries Ltd
Future Group founder says lost about Rs 7,000-crore revenue in 3-4 months; he would now 'think small' and focus on becoming digital-first