What should be an ordinary commercial dispute between Amazon.com Inc and the founders of a near-bankrupt retailer is shining a harsh light on the quality of legal and regulatory protection investors actually receive in India. The long drawn-out saga has thrown up two questions for prospective investors, or those who already have business interests in India. First, what does ...

Some things just don’t last long. On January 19, consumer goods giant Unilever Plc walked away from a deal that came to light just over the weekend. It declined to increase its 50 billion-pound ($68.2 billion) proposal to buy GlaxoSmithKline’s Plc’s consumer health arm. Citing financial discipline is an elegant way for Chief Executive Officer Alan Jope to extract himself ...

  Back in March, an investment fund called Archegos Capital Management collapsed after building up vast derivatives bets on several stocks, precipitating billions of dollars in losses for its lenders. The incident raised a troubling question about the country’s financial early-warning system: How could regulators have remained unaware of such a large concentration of risk until it was too late? ...