Advaita Legal has promoted Shailendra Singh to the principal level, which is similar to a salaried partner and the fourth rung in the firm’s eight-level fee-earner designation structure.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas advised Future Consumer Enterprise on Black River Food’s $45m investment in it. Black River Food was advised by Trilegal. SAM partners Kalpataru Tripathy and Abhishek Guha, senior associate Aditya Mehra and associates Roma A Das and Aditi Tralshawala acted for Future Cons...

OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan - who had spent more than three months in jail during the CBI’s AgustaWestland chopper scam investigation in late 2014 - had provided a reference for a client to work with the controversial Panama-headquartered law firm Mossack Fonseca, reported the Indian Express as part of its ongoing Panama Papers coverage.

Kanga & Co advised Sopariwala Exports on leasing to Spanish fashion chain Zara, 50,000 square feet of space – the largest space leased to date in India, to a foreign brand – in its Ismail building in South Mumbai’s Flora Fountain. The annual rent for the space is Rs 30 crore ($4.5m). Kanga seni...

Law firms may lose company referral business if the predictions of general counsel (GC) surveyed by IDEX Legal and Thomson Reuters, come true. Law firm fee currently eats up more than one-third of the in house legal budget of the GCs companies.

Raksha Kothari left DSK Legal in January after having been a founding member 14 years ago, to take a few months off and practice independently before deciding her next move. She has now acted as an independent counsel for cement company Sanghi Industries, which saw an investment of Rs 265 crore by t...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired JP Morgan executive director and assistant general counsel Ruetveij Pandya as a Mumbai corporate partner.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Asia Pacific (APAC) region general counsel GV Anand Bhushan has quit the company to move to another company as in house counsel.

Khaitan & Co advised drug major Cipla on raising funds in its arm Cipla Health, from FIL Capital Investments which was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Khaitan partners Haigreve Khaitan, Bhavik Narsana, Kartick Maheshwari, Avaantika Kakkar, Adheesh Nargolkar and Sharad Vaid, associate part...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted Manvinder Singh, Trisheet Chatterjee and Poonam Verma to its equity partnership, while partner Akshay Nagpal will joined Indigo as associate general counsel.

Three Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas non-equity partners - Ganesh Rao, Anu Tiwari and Dhruv Singhal - have handed in their notice today and will join AZB & Partners with the head of their team, Ashwath Rau, who announced his departure earlier this month.

Deutsche Bank India senior legal counsel Sapna Bhawnani will join Credit Suisse in Mumbai as its joint director and co-head of legal India in the coming months.

While the Delhi office of Fox Mandal may have seen better days, Som Mandal, its Delhi region managing partner has stood for West Bengal assembly elections in Shyampukur on a BJP ticket.

Indian Law Partners (ILP) advised French beauty products maker L’Occitane International on leading a $6m funding round in on-demand beauty services startup MyGlamm which was advised by ALMT Legal. ILP partner Gopika Pant, counsel Vineet Gupta, senior associate Rakshika Kaul and associate Abhimanyu K...

Khaitan & Co projects principal associate Rahul Arora and counsel Megha Arora will be joining HSA Advocates as partners, with Khaitan partner Amitabh Sharma to become the new HSA managing partner, as reported by Legally India on Tuesday.

Freshly minted Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner Himanshu Dodeja will join private equity major Blackstone as its India general counsel (GC).

Matrix Law advised e-commerce gaming and auction company Madbid.com on setting up operations in India. Matrix founding partner Sunny Sablok and senior associate Neha Verma acted for Madbid which facilitates “penny auctions” – customers bidding for products that are made available on the website at h...

:)“)Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas lawyers again have access to Legally India from their work computers, after Legally India and Bar & Bench were inaccessible yesterday displaying the message “blocked by admin”.

Former KPMG India director Vishwanath Shukla has started up BMG Legal Solutions with former DMD Advocates lawyer Madhavi Swaroop as co-founding partner. BMG Legal is a tax advisory and disputes law firm.

AZB & Partners Delhi partner Nanju Ganpathy has been designated as senior advocate of the Delhi high court, and talks to Legally India about his career and plans.