Luthra & Luthra has promoted six associates to its partnership, of whom three are in its Delhi litigation practice.

The turnover of legal process outsourcing (LPO) company UnitedLex was $42.8m in 2011, up from $28.2m (Rs 238 crore) the previous year, reported US-based Inc Magazine in its listing of the 500 fastest-growing privately held US companies.

Delhi-based IP law sole proprietorship Singh & Singh takes law firm Singh & Associates (S&A) to Delhi high court in a suit for trademark infringement. Advocate Pratibha Singh alleges that S&A is trying to mooch off her firm Singh & Singh’s “immense popularity and goodwill” t...

What did we miss? A great deal of goodness, that's what Legasis Partners, MDP & Partners, Kanga & Co, Singh & Associates, Amarchand Mangaldas, Juris Legal, I&S Associates, JSA, AZB, Trilegal, HSA and more activity in and outside the courts. Litigation and arbitration Indian multi...

Exclusive: Desai & Diwanji advised India’s largest entertainment ticketing website BookMyShow in the Rs 100 crore ($18m) capital and equity infusion to be made in it by global internet-business venture capitalist (VC) Accel Partners, advised by IndusLaw.

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai and Delhi advised Bain Capital with US firm Ropes & Gray in the $1bn purchase of 30 per cent of shares in global outsourcer Genpact, which was advised by Cravath Swaine & Moore. Two selling private equity funds were assisted by Nishith Desai Associates and Paul Weiss.

English law firm regulator SRA allows London-based insurance law firm Parabis to convert into an Alternate Business Structure (ABS) after injection of equity from private equity firm Duke Street. Parabis is set to convert from a professional services firm to a business process outsourcer, and will a...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff has released a statement explaining the events surrounding the Company Law Board (CLB) imposing a fine of Rs 50,000 and justifying the termination of employment of two allegedly responsible associates, as reported by Legally India yesterday.

Exclusive: Amarchand Mangaldas was fined Rs 50,000 by the Company Law Board (CLB) in Delhi on Friday and the firm today dismissed two associates for the allegedly negligent advice.

ICICI Lombard motor vehicles product manager Keshava Prashanth has joined Khaitan Sud & Partners as the Bangalore office’s partner-in-charge. His hire would take advantage of the “processes … developed with the help of DAC Beachcroft”, a UK insurance specialist firm, said the managing partner U...

Dhir & Dhir Associates has appointed former Singhania & Partners chief executive officer (CEO) Manju Mohotra as its first ever CEO on 1 August, aiming to expand its insolvency and restructuring practice, and to set up in Chandigarh.

Deals in private equity, corporate M&A, sports-media law, and competition law merger control in this update.

Former Indigo Airlines senior legal counsel Piyush Gupta joined Kochhar & Co Gurgaon as competition and aviation partner on 6 August. Gupta will set up the firm’s aviation law practice.

News in brief: Former Luthra & Luthra Delhi indirect tax associate and NLU Jodhpur 2008 grad Sameer Jain starts up a litigation and tax advisory practice Pamasis Law with his brother, former Fox Mandal Bangalore litigation associate and Lucknow university 2006 grad Sidhharth Jain, this August, ...

Exclusive: Infosys legal head Samuel Mani and senior Infosys legal heads Utham Chengappa and Neil Mathur have quit to start a technology-focused law firm together.

Infosys, meanwhile, is understood to be finalising the appointment of new legal heads as former in-houser Gautam Rohidekar has returned to the company.

Former Trilegal senior associate Nitin Banerjee joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) Delhi’s energy practice as retained partner on 3 August, after five years spent with international oil and natural gas (ONG) major BG Group in India and the UK.

The latest deals, wrapped in one story Amarchand Mangaldas, AZB & Partners, JSA, Khaitan & Co, DSK Legal, HSA Advocates and Clasis Law reported activity in glamorous PEs, vibrant M&As, savvy markets, and many power-packed financings. Private Equity French banker Groupe BPCE’s investme...

Former DSK Legal partner Jagvir Singh will join HSA Advocates as the third partner in the firm’s project finance practice on 16 August, while also focusing on banking and corporate work.

More deals than you can shake a stick at in our handy round-up of deals activity, with dozens of firms keeping busy.

Exclusive: Former SRGR Law Offices senior associate Akshat Pande and Videocon Group company in-houser Ankit Prakash have started up Alpha Partners in Delhi to focus on corporate and intellectual property (IP) law work.