MNK Law Offices partners Nivedita Tiwari and Srinivas Kilambi with associates Abhilash Pillai and Aashish Vats acted for Peninsula Brookfield Investment Managers on its investment in Ansal Hi-Tech Townships through Rs 300 crore ($50m) of non-convertible debentures. SB Partners, led by partners Samir...

DSK Legal partner Balbir Singh, who was appointed as one of six law firm lawyers to the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) external panel in September 2012, has resigned from the panel. Delhi partner Singh said that the panel appointment was ordinarily for three years but that he had decided to...

Wadia Ghandy partner Gaurav Singhi, who was promoted in April 2014 , has joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) as a partner. Mumbai partner Akshay Chudasama confirmed that Singhi would join the firm as a non-equity retained partner. The news was first reported by Bar & Bench earlier today. Singhi, a ...

Ashlar Law, the firm founded by former PXV & Partners partners Pingal Khan in Mumbai and Bangalore and Souvik Bhadra in Kolkata, has completed its first deal, advising “big data” company Indus Insights on its Series A funding by Unilazer and Hive India. Khan, together with Kolkata-based associa...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) acted for Swiss lock maker Kaba Holding on increasing its investment in its Indian joint venture with Dorset to 74 per cent. Luthra & Luthra partner Bobby Chandhoke advised the Indian shareholders in the JV, Dorset, while JSA partners Upendra Nath Sharma & Pallavi ...

Madhurima Mukherjee, who had left Luthra & Luthra a year ago, has joined AZB & Partners in Delhi as a capital markets partner, according to several authoritative sources.

Former Trilegal counsel and regulatory practice head Sakya Singha Chaudhuri has joined HSA Advocates as partner to head the firm’s regulatory practice. Chaudhuri left Trilegal in the last week of July and joined HSA in August.

Khaitan & Co Delhi has advised cinema giant and long-standing client Inox on its Rs 182 crore complete acquisition of Satyam Cineplexes, which drafted in Luthra & Luthra.

London-headquartered global advertising company M&C Saatchi has agreed to buy Delhi-based ad agency February India through a 10-year structured deal, reported the Economic Times ’ brand equity blog, taking around a 20 per cent stake with a 2020 “business target of Rs 50 crore”. Naveen Goel Law ...

Khaitan & Co and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto advised Tokyo-based SBS Holdings in buying a 66 per cent stake in Transpole Logistics, which was advised by Trilegal. Khaitan Delhi partner Rajat Mukherjee, associate partner Harsh Kumar, executive director Daksha Baxi and competition partner Manas ...

Fox & Mandal Kolkata advised local real estate developer Keventer Projects on its Rs 500 crore joint venture with Tata Housing to develop an ultra-luxury residential project. The Tata company handled its legal work in-house in Kolkata. Fox partner Debanjan Mandal and associates Biswajit Kumar, ...

Ran Chakrabarti, the co-founder of William Chakrabarti & Associates, has joined IndusLaw as a partner in Delhi from 1 August. UK educated, he began his career in London and Singapore at Ashurst and White & Case and moved to India in 2007 to join Amarchand Mangaldas, moving to legal process...

SNG & Partners partner S Babu has joined Economic Laws Practice (ELP) in Mumbai.

Clyde & Co Dubai aviation partner Sidanth Rajagopal joined the London office of Kaye Scholer with the same designation, reported Bar & Bench . The ILS Pune alumnus, who had also briefly worked at Clyde’s Indian best friend firm Clasis Law, told B&B : “This was a fantastic opportunity ...

Nishith Desai Associates has launched a mobile app for Android, Apple and Blackberry devices in a bid at “knowledge democratisation”.

Khaitan & Co has bagged the mandate to advise Omidyar Network’s investment in Indian start-up news and commentary website Scroll.in, according to a press release from the firm. Omidyar, which is founded by eBay billionaire founder Pierre Omidyar, was advised by Bangalore partner Ganesh Prasad w...

ALMT Legal advised UK-based testing services provider Exova Group Plc in its acquisition of Mumbai-based material testing lab Metallurgical Services which was advised by Bharucha & Partners. ALMT senior partner Aliff Fazelbhoy and partner Statira Ranina acted for Exova on the deal which, accord...

Legal Matrix, a Hyderabad-based start-up law firm set up in 2011 by Aruna Kumari after leaving Fox Mandal Little, as it was then called, has merged into Kochhar & Co’s Hyderabad office with five lawyers.

Luthra & Luthra has promoted managing associates Anirban Bhattacharya and Lokesh Shah to its partnership in Delhi and Mumbai respectively, according to Bar & Bench . Bhattacharya, specialising in white collar crime, company law, litigation and arbitration, had joined the firm in 2006 from ...