DSK Legal advised Kerala-based NeST Technologies Corporation, SFO Technologies, Network Systems & Technologies and their promoters in divesting Nest group’s engineering software business for Rs 500 crore ($81m) to Bangalore-based engineering services provider QuEST Global Engineering Services, ...

Samvad Partners advised Helion Venture Partners in investing Rs 35 crore ($5.7m) in ID Fresh Foods, which was advised by Economic Laws Practice (ELP). ELP partner Suhail Nathani, associate partner Vinayak Burman, senior associate Archana Khosla and associate Trishna Sharma acted for the company, wit...

Platinum Partners has announced the promotion of Piusha Bose to partnership in Mumbai. The promotion will take effect from January 2015. This will take the strength of Platinum to five partners in the Mumbai region, after Ankit Majmudar joins from Wadia Ghandy to set up a Bangalore office. The Delhi...

Wadia Ghandy Bangalore partner Ankit Majmudar is set to leave the firm early next year.

Majmudar & Partners equity partner and infrastructure and projects practice head Prashanth Sabeshan left the firm today to join AZB & Partners as a partner next week.

Linklaters and Talwar Thakore Associates (TTA) advised the lending and underwriting banks on Tata Steel UK Holdings, which took a term loan and revolving credit facilities of $3.05bn to refinance its bank debt. Linklaters London partner Narayan Iyer, who had rejoined Linklaters a year ago from TTA, ...

Udwadia Udeshi & Argus (UUA) Partners, the firm created by the 2012-merger of Kolkata start-up Argus Law Partners and Bombay solicitors firm Udwadia & Udeshi, has lost two litigation partners, Amol Bavare and Mihir Kamdar, who will start their own practice according to a report on Bar ...

Wadia Ghandy closed its Singapore office after three years of operations on the ground of the island nation, due to a lack of commercial viability.

AZB & Partners has hired the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) former assistant director Fadi Metanios as a senior consultant in its Delhi competition team.

Iqbal Khan Khaitan & Co has promoted M&A and private equity principal associate Iqbal Khan to associate partner level in Mumbai. Khan holds a JD from Columbia Law School and an LLB from the London School of Economics (LSE), having joined Khaitan in 2013 after working several years in New Y...

Amarchand Mangaldas partner Abhimanyu Bhattacharya, who resigned in July, has now joined Khaitan & Co as expected and as first reported by Legally India at the time.

Tatva Legal advised US-based technology company Brillio’s subsidiary Brillio Technology in buying data analytics start up Ashley Marketelligent, which was advised by Samvad Partners. Tatva partners NK Dilip and Raghunath Anathapur and senior associate Rashmi Talukdar acted for Brillio. Samvad partne...

AZB & Partners senior partner and chief executive officer (CEO) Abhijit Joshi will leave by 15 November.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has hired Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan attorney Alok Yadav as a partner in its Delhi litigation practice. The Delhi University graduate specialises in direct and indirect tax litigation and started his career with JB Dadachanji and Co in 2000. He is an expert in cust...

Trilegal has promoted Delhi litigation counsel Shankh Sengupta to equity partnership, as the firm’s 24th equity partner.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Singapore-based Superior Investments and HDFC Investment Trust II on their investment of Rs 60 crores ($9.7m) in Sterling Gated Community for the development of a residential project in Whitefield, Bangalore. Sterling was advised by BMR Advisors. JSA Bangalore partne...

IndusLaw advised Snapdeal again on its largest round of investment to date with 12 other law firm teams.

Penningtons Manches partner and India co-head Saionton Basu has joined US firm Duane Morris’ London corporate practice, according to a press release from the firm . The NLSIU Bangalore graduate had joined Penningtons, as it was then called, in 2011 from Platinum Partners in Delhi , where he had retu...

In an interview to UK legal magazine Legal Week, headlined as “Amarchand sizes up options for first international base as India’s unlevel playing field continues to frustrate”, Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff said that the firm was thinking about opening an office abroad. H...

Wadia Ghandy partner Vijay Sureka joined AZB & Partners as a senior associate in Mumbai on 1 October.