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Seema Jhingan, a senior Partner and co-founder of LexCounsel, Law Offices, has over twenty three years of experience. She extensively advises in areas such as Mergers & Acquisition, Education Laws, Defence & Aviation, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Franchising, Media & Entertainment, Software/Information Technology, General Corporate and Commercial. Seema has substantial expertise in representing collaborative alliances and joint ventures, K-12 and higher educational institutions, brand and technology license arrangements, cross border mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring, investment and divestment and capital repatriation. Seema has been recently recognized as one of India’s Trusted Corporate Lawyers of 2017 by the Indian Corporate Counsel Association.
The FDI Policy allows up to 100% foreign investment in the education sector under the automatic route (i.e. without the requirement of prior Government approval). Further, FDI in companies engaged in construction-development projects (including inter alia educational institutions) is permitted up to 100% under the automatic route, subject to compliance with certain conditionalities.
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