Trilegal and Simpson Thacher Bartlett advised Chinese online financial services company Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, on its acquisition of a 25 per cent stake in One97 Communications, which runs Indian payment gateway Paytm. One97 was advised by Ama...

Saikrishna & Associates advised ESPN Software and Star India in winning a Delhi high court decision yesterday that state broadcaster Prasar Bharti could only air on terrestrial TV (but not on cable), the footage of sporting events that other broadcasters and content owners have to share with Pr...

Juris Corp capital markets partner Sonali Sharma has left the firm, leaving only five partners after years of senior level attrition.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) Delhi intellectual property ( IP) partner Rahul Beruar, and his team of two LKS lawyers, has joined Clasis Law in Delhi. Beruar has joined as partner. The CLC Delhi 2002 alum started his career at Akash Chittranshi & Associates and left it as an IP partner ...

Crawford Bayley, AZB & Partners and Covington Burling advised Mumbai-based Famy Care on the $800m (Rs 4,944 crore) acquisition of its female contraceptives business by the world’s second largest drug maker Mylan. Mylan was advised by Luthra & Luthra and Cravath Swaine & Moore. Platinu...

Induslaw advised baby care products e-tailer FirstCry in raising $26m from San Francisco-based hedge fund Valiant Capital Partners (which was advised by AZB & Partners) and from existing investors IDG Ventures India, Ventex Venture Holdings and SAIF Partners, which were also advised by Indus an...

In addition to managing corporate associate promotions Geeta Dhania and Vishal Yaduvanshi , whose promotions to partnership Legally India reported over the last two weeks, Luthra & Luthra has announced the promotions of partner designates Abdullah Hussain and Ashish Prasad to full partnership t...

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Nandish Vyas, together with senior associates Kunal Doshi and Tushar Raut, and associate Natasha Sethna, will today join the firm that was started by former AZB CEO Abhijit Joshi in November . Vyas’ joining was first reported by Bar & Bench in December, with h...

Luthra & Luthra will promote corporate managing associate Vishal Yaduvanshi with effect of 1 February, according to an authoritative source, following Legally India ’s report earlier this week of the upcoming promotion of Geeta Dhania . Yaduvanshi was based in Luthra’s Mumbai office but moved t...

Narayan Iyer, who had left Linklaters Singapore in 2009 to join the magic circle firm’s best friend Talwar Thakore & Associates, has been appointed as head of the India practice.

Bharucha & Partners advised social media giant Twitter on its first acquisition in India, in its $30m buy of missed-call marketing platform ZipDial Mobile Solutions, which was advised by AZB & Partners.

Amarchand Mangaldas, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Osborne Clark and Anand Gujadhur advised Silicon Valley Bank on its Rs 280 crore acquisition by Temasek Holdings, which was advised by AZB & Partners and Linklaters. Amarchand Mumbai corporate partners Ashwath Rau and Shishir Vayttaden...

Luthra & Luthra Delhi managing associate Geeta Dhania will be promoted to partnership on 1 February, confirmed authoritative sources, with other promotions to be announced shortly. Dhania will head the firm’s Delhi capital markets practice, which is headed by Luthra Mumbai capital markets partn...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi and Mumbai regions, managed by brothers Shardul and Cyril Shroff respectively, have agreed to split into two firms by 1 April 2015, confirmed three independent sources.

PDS Legal, the law firm closely allied to Big Four consultancy Ernst & Young (E&Y), is set to boost its M&A practice with the arrival of Desai & Diwanji Mumbai partners Monika Deshmukh and Vihang Virkar.

Amarchand Mangaldas and K&L Gates advised US-based Par Pharmaceuticals and its wholly-owned Indian subsidiary Par Formulations on its acquisition of Chennai-based Ethics Biolabs, which was advised by HSB Partners. Amarchand Delhi partners Amit Kumar and Arvind Sharma, principal associate design...

The firm started in 2012 by former ELP associate partners Ritesh Kanodia and Udayan Choksi with former Bharucha & Partners SA Amey Nargolkar has merged with former KPMG deputy DEO Dinesh Kanabar’s two-month old start-up.

“)Khaitan Sud partners Mrinal Ojha and Trinath Tadakamalla joined Phoenix Delhi in lit, while in Mumbai it promoted counsel Kartikeya Singh to partnership.

Intellectual property firm Singh & Singh has started an office in Mumbai in October 2014 headed by former a former Times Group legal head. The office is headed by managing partner Vanditta Malhotra Hedge, who was formerly the legal head of Radio Mirchi, and partner Ravina Rajpal, a lawyer at Ne...

Economic Laws Practice advised Tano India Private Equity Fund II on its investment in MSH Sarees, which owns the Jashn brand and was advised by BMR Legal. ELP partner Suhail Nathani, associate partner Vinayak Burman, senior associate Archana Khosla and associates Amoolya Narayan and Trishna Sharma a...