Killer Acquisitions: India’s DVTs in the Digital Competition Era

Introduction : Suppose you’re a big global tech company. A small startup creates software that could undermine your entire business model in five years. They have very little revenue, even fewer employees, and offices based in a co-working space. The obvious solution is to acquire the startup before it matures into a serious competitive threat. The sparse financial statements and overall lack of assets of the startup would justify the deal flying under the radar of the competition regulators....