You, Me and Dupree: Indian Supreme Court Rethinks the Tenability of Using the Group of Companies Doctrine to Bind Non-Signatories to an Arbitration Agreement
The group of companies doctrine in arbitration has always been contentious in India. The doctrine was first recognised by the Indian Supreme Court in Chloro Controls India Private Limited v. Severn Trent Water Purification Inc. (2013) 1 SCC 641 (hereinafter Chloro Controls). Since then, Indian courts have applied the doctrine to bind group companies of…