Amarchand Mangaldas advised UltraTech Cement in acquiring Jaypee Cement Corporation’s Gujarat unit for Rs 3,800 crore ($602m). Jaypee was advised by Vaish Associates. Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff, corporate partners Tushar Mavani and Alice George, competition partner Nish...

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai office scoops Luthra lawyer who’s been associated with the firm for 13 years.

PXV Law Partners Mumbai partner Deepto Roy acted for long-time client Glocal Hospitals in its Rs 25 crore ($4m) investment by SIDBI Venture Capital. Kochhar & Co Gurgaon-based partner Anjuli Sivaramakrishnan acted for SIDBI.

Clasis Law has recruited Grant Thornton indirect tax director Manoj Mishra as head of indirect tax in Delhi – the first hire in the practice area. Before 2007 he was working at Khaitan & Co, reported Bar & Bench.

Jaipur-based law firm Chir Amrit Legal LLP has opened an office in Fort, Mumbai on 7 September headed by its Jaipur corporate practice head and partner Ritu Soni.

Legasis Partners partner Sachin Mandlik has joined Khaitan & Co as a partner in dispute resolution in Mumbai.

Khaitan & Co former indirect tax executive director Manish Mishra joined Link Legal - India Law Services as a partner on Monday.

Desai & Diwanji advised Mumbai-based infrastructure company Shapoorji Pallonji Group as Bharucha & Partners advised Malaysia-based IJM Corporation in jointly selling 74 per cent equity in their Tamil Nadu highway expansion project concessionaire Trichy Tollway (TTPL) to Macquarie SBI Infra...

Advani & Co managing partner Hiroo Advani, and other law firms’ partners have formed a body that aims to “encourage best practices” and exclude the judiciary from arbitrating Indian disputes.

Persistent Systems general counsel Vivek Sadhale with its associate general manager Vikas Aggarwal and independently practicing lawyers Shridhar Kulkarni and Alhad Oak started up Pune law firm Legalogic as co-founding partners on 1 July in Pune and Mumbai.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) Mumbai dispute resolution partner Madhur Baya left the firm last week to start up his own arbitration practice LexArbitri.

India Today Group’s Business Today magazine has chosen Madhurima Mukherjee, who left Luthra & Luthra last week , and Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Pallavi Shroff, as two of India’s 25 “most powerful women in business”. AZB & Partners Mumbai-based co-founder Zia Mody has won the award s...

Former Lexygen partner Roshan Thomas joined Themis Associates as a partner this month. Thomas had been with the firm for seven years after joining as partner from Nishith Desai & Associates (NDA) where he was an associate from 2003 to 2006. He graduated from Nalsar Hyderabad in 2003. Thomas dec...

Juris Corp partner and Chennai head Hufriz Wadia has resigned, having joined in January to open the office in the city.

Desai & Diwanji advised Delhi-based Ozone Ayurvedics and its parent Ozone UK in selling off India’s second largest skin-care brand “Nomarks” to Bajaj Corp, which was advised by Khaitan & Co, for Rs 150 crore ($22.7m) according to the Economic Times . Desai & Diwanji Mumbai partner Vih...

Former J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai partner Shiraj Salelkar joined IC Legal’s equity partnership yesterday as the sixth partner at the firm.

Luthra & Luthra capital markets head and partner Madhurima Mukherjee has announced her resignation from the firm today.

KSB Partners, which was co-founded in 2006 by Samir Bedi, Srinivas Kilambi and Siddharth Singh, is set to dissolve and re-start.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has opened an office in Bangalore, headed by Mumbai equity partner Nishant Shah, reported Bar & Bench . The firm will focus on tax and corporate in Bangalore and was looking to finalise a new office in Chennai under senior associate Kartik Sundaram. This would be EL...

DSK Legal advised software firm Datamatics Global Services in partnering with multimedia solutions company PreMedia Global in data publishing and e-retail. Amarchand Mangaldas advised PreMedia’s parent Lexicon Publishing Services, and BMR Legal and IndusLaw advised its existing investors, which were...