:)“)Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas lawyers have found themselves unable to access Legally India and Bar & Bench from their work computers.

Khaitan & Co energy, infrastructure and corporate partner Amitabh Sharma has resigned and will join HSA Advocates as its managing partner, as HSA founder and managing partner Hemant Sahai is seeking to institutionalise the firm.

Legasis Partners advised IndiaNivesh Venture Capital Fund on its Rs 10 crore ($1.5m) investment in Treo Engineering which was advised in house. Legasis managing partner Suhas Tuljapurkar, Mumbai principal associate Aashutosh Sampat, Pune partner Apurv Sardeshmukh and associates Mugdha Joshi and Hard...

Ahmedabad based law firm Nanavati & Nanavati__Advocates promoted 2003 law graduate Vaibhav Shukla, 1999 law graduate Nirav Joshi and 1990 law graduate Amul Joshi to partner effective 1 April. The three new partners are alumni of Sir LA Shah Law College Ahmedabad. Shukla, who has been with Nanav...

Seth Dua & Associates (SDA) partner Salman Waris has started up a technology and intellectual property focussed law firm TechLegis, with a team of 10 lawyers including former Fox Mandal lawyers Hamdullah Sayeed, Nitin Kumar and Lalit Ambastha.

The ex-general counsel (GC) of UTV-founder Ronnie Screwvala’s fund Unilazer Ventures, Archana Rajaram, left the company to go independent this month, now advising the venture capital funds Unilazer Ventures, IDG Ventures and Matrix Partners and others as an independent general counsel.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) advised Future Group on its acquisition of online furniture retail store FabFurnish which is operated by Bluerock eServices. Bluerock was advised by Khaitan & Co. SAM Mumbai partner Shuva Mandal, Delhi partner Arvind Sharma, principal associate Janani Sekhar an...

DSK Legal has promoted Munaf Virjee, Maneesh Upadhyay, and Sagar Kadam to its partnership, with Pritha Jha and Vikrant Negi getting elevated to associate partner level.

Khaitan & Co advised VSK Holdings and its promoters Vikram Kirloskar and Geetanjali Kirloskar on selling their stake in Takshashila Hospitals to existing joint venture partners Toyota Tsusho Corporation Japan and Secom Medical System Singapore, which were advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA). Kh...

to VC fund to SAM Bangalore”)Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has started a Bangalore office with ex-Omidyar Network India general counsel (GC) Karthik Krishnan Mahalingam as office head and national venture capital practice head.

Trilegal advised online entertainment content aggregator Hungama Digital Media Entertainment on its fundraising round which was led by smart device maker Xiaomi Singapore advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. The round also included infusions from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners which w...

Khaitan & Co and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) advised Kotak Securities, ICICI Securities and Citigroup Global Markets on brokering a $175m (Rs 1,165 crore) offer for sale (OFS) by the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) which was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Duane Morris. Khait...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas corporate partner Ashwath Rau has informed the partnership today that he would resign.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) beat 2015’s top three firms, and flew past Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas as well, to lead Mergermarket’s M&A value rankings this quarter (Q1).

Indian Law Partners (ILP) co-founding partner Piyoosh Gupta has started his own law firm PSG Legal, aiming to expand rapidly.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett advised Blackstone on its $1.1bn (Rs 7071 crore) buy of Indian IT outsourcing services provider Mphasis from Hewlett Packard (HP) which was advised by Platinum Partners and Freshfields, as first reported by Bar & Bench , and confir...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas principal associates Shyamali Singh and Harsh Maggon have joined AZB & Partners in Mumbai, with Singh becoming a partner and Maggon a counsel.

PDS Legal advised Minda Corporation on its more than Rs 45 crore ($6.8m) buy of Panalfa Autoelektrik which was advised by PRA Law Offices. PDS principal associate Anirudh Mukherjee, senior associates Karuna Thapa and Deepti Thakkar and associates Samyukta Damojipurapu and Ankita Jain acted for Minda...

Hariani & Co promoted 2006 law graduates Nirav Jani, and Viloma Shah, 2007 law graduate Abhijeet Sonawane and 2005 law graduate Sadaf Shaikh to associate partner. 2006 law graduate Sourasubha Ghosh who left Hariani three years ago, as a senior associate, will join again now as associate partner...

“)Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted eight of its lawyers to partner with effect from 1 April, according to a press release: