Corporate
LKS continues full-service hiring spree: PSA partner Neeraj Dubey joins to head Bangalore corporate
Ex-SRGR, Khaitan real estate partner, consultant Abhishek Awasthi joins AZB Delhi
Khaitan & Co consultant Abhishek Awasthi, who had joined in August 2014 from SRGR Law Offices where he was a partner, has joined AZB & Partners in Noida as a senior associate to expand its real estate team. AZB Delhi managing partner Ajay Bahl commented that the firm was “very pleased” wit...
Breaking: AZB Mumbai star partner Essaji Vahanvati goes part-time for family business, ‘hopes to join back’ in 6
ELP, Karanjawala win for Next Radio, MBPL in compulsory licence challenge
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) and Karanjawala & Co defended and won a favourable order for, respectively, Next Radio and Music Broadcast (MBPL) in a writ petition filed by Phonograhic Performance (PPL) in the Delhi high court challenging six compulsory licenses of Next Radio. ELP partner Kirat N...
Karanjawala promotes Samarjeet Pattnaik to partnership in criminal lit
Karanjawala & Co has promoted principal associate Samarjeet Pattnaik to partnership, as first reported by Bar & Bench . The Symbiosis Pune 2002 alumni, who is with the firm since 2002, is the second partner in the firm’s criminal litigation practice which is currently headed by partner San...
Ex-Desai & D cap markets partner Srishti Ojha starts up Veritas, does Rs 50 cr priv placement for Intec
Veritas Law Offices is advising Delhi-based non-banking financial company (NBFC) Intec Capital in its privately placement of Rs 50 crores of BSE-listed non-convertible debentures.
Vivek Daswaney’s V Law merges into DH Law after fears of clients outgrowing 5-year old start-up
Ishtiaq Ali & Damodara Rao's Orbit Law opens Andhra office
Clasis Mumbai breakaway Orbit Law Offices has opened an Andhra Pradesh office – its third national office since starting up in October 2014. The Andhra office is in the state’s new capital, Vijaywada, and will be run by the firm’s lawyers Surya Mohan Yerramilli, Venkata Muralidhar Kandukuri and Bhar...
JSA, ELP, DSK on $9m FIL, Somerset PE in Cygnus
J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised FIL Capital Investments (Mauritius) II on its Rs 51 crore purchase of equity and Economic Laws Practice (ELP) advised Somerset Indus Healthcare Fund I on its Rs 6 crore investment in Cygnus Medicare which was advised by DSK Legal. JSA Delhi partner Manvinder Singh, s...
Link Legal India Law Services promotes Gautham Srinivas to partnership
Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) promoted capital markets principal associate Gautham Srinivas to salaried partnership in Delhi. NLSIU 2004 alum Srinivas worked at Amarchand Mangaldas Bangalore and Chennai until June 2013 when he left the firm as a principal associate in the capital markets pra...
Khaitan reps Uber in Delhi HC shining light on rival, as Suhaan Mukerji's PLR lobbies with government
Khaitan & Co, instructing senior advocate Rajiv Nayar, has been representing US-based cab booking app Uber, which today withdrew its plea filed in the Delhi high court against the ban imposed on it by the Delhi government. Khaitan Bangalore partner Ganesh Prasad, Delhi partners Ajay Bhargava an...
JSA, Amarchand, Wadia on $221m Nirlon share sale to GIC
J Sagar Associates advised Geraldton Finance, Real India Invest Aktiengesellschaft and the promoters of IT park owner Nirlon on selling 39.2 per cent equity in Nirlon to Singapore’s sovereign fund GIC. Amarchand Mangaldas and Wadia Ghandy advised GIC. JSA Mumbai partners Somasekhar Sundaresan, Vikra...
Khare partner Abir Roy joins LKS as joint partner
Khare Legal Chambers partner Abir Roy joined Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan as a joint partner in its Delhi competition practice on 2 January.
Ex Khaitan associate becomes Kashmir MLA
Former Khaitan & Co associate Yawar Dilawar Mir became the youngest candidate to win the Kashmir state assembly elections in December, reported the Tribune India . Mir had filed his nomination papers from the Rafiabad constituency on 20 November, reported Greater Kashmir , after his father – Pe...
Amarchand Mangaldas, Vaish on $852m UltraTech buy of JP cement plants
Amarchand Mangaldas advised UltraTech cement on its Rs 5400 crore acquisition of Jaiprakash Associates’ cement plants. JP was advised by Vaish Associates. Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff, corporate partner Tushar Mavani and competition partner Nisha Kaur Uberoi acted for UltraTech. Va...
Senior DSK partner Balbir Singh resigns (amicably) to pursue litigation & senior counsel dream
Mediation & Cyril Shroff affidavit deadline extended to Feb in Amarchand dispute
The deadline for filing the Bombay high court counter affidavit by Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff to rebut his brother Shardul’s case has been extended for the second time to 20 February 2015. The court-sanctioned mediation between the brothers has been extended too from it...
Shardul Shroff in talks to open offices on brother's turf as mechanics of 2 Amarchands raised in mediation [Update-1]
Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi, led by the region’s managing partner Shardul Shroff, has been in acquisition talks with lawyers and at least one law firm in cities falling under the management of Mumbai-based managing partner Cyril, as the two brothers have been embroiled in a protracted mediation that i...
Khaitan, Vaish on $60m Shree Cement acquisition of Jaypee
Khaitan & Co advised Shree Cement in its $58.4m acquisition of Jaiprakash Associates’ Jaypee Grinding Unit. Jaiprakash was advised by Vaish Associates. Khaitan Delhi competition partner Manas Kumar Chaudhuri and principal associate Trivikram Khaitan acted for Shree. Vaish Delhi partner Martand ...
Advani & Co breaks up with Pune merger partner Nehru but eyes merger with new Pune firm
Advani Nehru & Co, the 15-month-old Pune law firm formed by Advani & Co and Pune-based Nehru & Co, was dissolved on 15 December due to financial unviability. Advani & Co is in the process of finalising a merger with another firm in Pune while Nehru & Co has decided not to pu...