Khaitan & Co Mumbai associate partner Nishant K Singh joined Indus Law in Mumbai as partner in its corporate practice.

Amarchand Mangaldas advised realty giant DLF on India’s first commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) issue to raise Rs 3,500 crore this fiscal.

Sand Hill Counsel advised media giant Times of India group’s digital product company Times Internet in buying a majority stake in India’s largest digital coupon marketplace Coupondunia, which was advised by ALMT Legal. Sand Hill Counsel partner Anand Kumar and senior associate Khozema Rangwala acted...

S&R Associates has promoted its Delhi corporate lawyer Mohit Gogia to partnership effective yesterday.

Krishnamurthy & Co (K Law) has promoted Gaurav Shrawat in Mumbai to associate partner in its corporate practice.

AZB & Partners Delhi office has promoted three of its lawyers to partnership, with Abhinav Ashwin, Sachin Mehta and Shuchi Sinha having been given the nod. Tax lawyer Ashwin had joined from Ernst & Young in 2008, after graduating in 2005 from NLSIU Bangalore. Sinha joined from P&A Law...

S&R Associates advised international media house Bertelsmann’s strategic investment arm Bertelsmann India Investment in its investment online lifestyle marketplace Pepperfry. Pepperfry and its existing investor Norwest Venture Partners was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas. S&R Delhi partner ...

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has opened up in Chennai, adding a sixth office to its national presence as was announced in August. The firm will start with focussing on its tax and litigation practice in Chennai.

AZB & Partners Delhi partner Debashish Sankhari has resigned to look for a role which is “a mix of entrepreneurship and legal practice”, reported legal website Bar & Bench . Sankhari graduated from NLSIU Bangalore and joined the advocacy group of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative fo...

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) advised India’s largest e-commerce player Flipkart on buying out online fashion retailer Myntra which was advised by Indus Law. One of the existing investors IDG Ventures India I LLC which was advised by Samvad Partners

Desai & Diwanji advised Fidelity Capital in the sale of its equity in Laurus Labs, which was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas, to Warburg Pincus which was advised by AZB & partners.

Indus Law advised old client and online marketplace Snapdeal’s parent Jasper Infotech in its $100m (Rs 590 crore) second round of funding from US-based BlackRock Financial Management, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, Hong Kong-based Myriad Asset Management and Tybourne Capital Management, and Azim Premji’s Premji invest

Amarchand Mangaldas advised India’s largest port operator Adani Ports Special Economic Zone in its Rs 5,500 crore ($930m) buy of the Dhamra port from L&T Infrastructure and Tata Steel, which were advised by AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Shameek Chaudhuri. Amarchand Mumbai managing partner ...

The Financial Times ’ Mumbai correspondent James Crabtree visits Amarchand Mumbai’s top husband and wife team Cyril and Vandana Shroff at their home, documenting their symbiotic working relationship, decorating nous and fondness for all things elephant-themed, for the business paper’s House & H...

Desai & Diwanji, DSK Legal and Universal Legal reprised their roles in Aster DM Healthcare’s second fundraising round. Universal Legal Chennai partners Kavitha Vijay and Sameena Chatrapatty acted for DM. On the repeat investor side, DSK partner Narendra Dingankar and associate Mayank Mehta acte...

Nishith Desai Associates acted as Indian legal and tax counsel for Cognizant, which bought Atlanta-based digital video solutions company itaas, which was represented by P&A Associates. Nishith Desai’s Munich-based European operations head Ruchi Biyani , with partner Nishchal Joshipura and Singa...

Axon Partners LLP and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy jointly advised the lead book runners and lead managers in Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV issuing $1bn and €750m of notes, with Allen & Overy (A&O) advised Bharti Airtel and the Dutch issue on Dutch and US laws. Axon co...

Kapil Sapra & Associates (KSA) has started an office in Bangalore, transferring two lawyers from its head office in Delhi to the city.

IndusLaw partner Avimukt Dar with associates Aakriti Shakdher and Kriti Tannan acted for AM Marketplaces, which runs “social shopping platform” LimeRoad.com and received $15m in Series B funding from Tiger Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Matrix Partners VCCircle . Luthra & Luthra partne...

Delhi-based IP boutique LexOrbis has promoted Deepak Sriniwas, Rajeev Kumar, Amaya Singh and Pooja Dodd to salaried partner.