J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Rajani Associates have advised on glass manufacturer Saint-Gobain’s acquisition of Sezal Glass’s float glass unit in a slump sale for a reported sum of Rs 686 crore.

Kochhar & Co managing partner Rohit Kochhar has withdrawn a case against Legally India in the Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal on Friday, which had passed a stay order five weeks ago prohibiting Legally India from publishing any material relating to any of Kochhar’s disputes.

Desai & Diwanji has advised Wadia group-owned budget airline GoAir on the company’s acquisition of 72 Airbus 320 NEO Aircraft for $7.2bn.

With over 50 lawyers working across three offices now, a strategy consulting arm and future plans turning towards tier-two cities, Delhi-headquartered Hammurabi & Solomon (H&S) had a modest start with two founding partners and two associates.

Exclusive: HSA Advocates Mumbai partner and office head Utsa Shome, who had joined the firm in 2009 from AZB & Partners, will head up Kolkata firm Argus Partners’ new Mumbai office.

Exclusive: AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Vishnu Jerome is intending to set up a new law firm after his AZB resignation takes effect from the end of this month.

SNG & Partners Delhi, Desai & Diwanji and Bharat Forge’s in-house team structured the joint venture (JV) between Bharat Forge and engineering company David Brown Systems to produce gearboxes and transmissions.

Khaitan & Co represented ATM outsourcing company AGS Transact Technologies in its successful bid to raise Rs 145 crore ($32m) in private equity funds from investment firm TPG growth, which drafted in AZB Partners and Milbank Tweed.

Starting out as Indus in Bangalore and G&D in Delhi and now with four offices, Induslaw as it stands today has come of age with a strictly democratic partnership that has its eye on creating a truly national firm, if it can find the right fit.

Majmudar & Co has advised KS Gleitlager GmbH, which is part of German automobile company Kolbenschmidt Pierburg, in its Rs 87 crore ($19.5m) acquisition of a unit of Indian automotive parts maker Kirloskar Oil Engines. Majmudar & Co partners Akhil Hirani, Rukshad Davar and Neerav Merchant ...

Exclusive: Vidhii Partners will open up an office in Delhi with three former Paras Kuhad Associates lawyers and has taken two senior industry experts onto its internal advisory board to bolster its new media practice and growth strategy.

Juris Corp has absorbed AM Law, the practice of Bombay solicitor Mustafa Motiwala and six lawyers, bulking up the firm’s management capacity and advisory strength.

Exclusive: MDP & Partners has hired two corporate J Sagar Associates (JSA) senior associates as equity partners to bring up its total strength to eight partners.

SNG & Partners, Trilegal, Boston-based Rich May and Spanish law firm Uría Menéndez have advised on Spanish Grupo T-Solar Global’s investment into Astonfield Renewable Resources heralding a strategic partnership to finance, operate and develop 200MW of solar power plants in India.

Amarchand Mangaldas, Latham & Watkins and Middle East law firm Al Tamimi & Company have advised India’s largest private sector bank ICICI Bank on issuing $1bn (Rs 4,470 crore) of international bonds through five-and-a-half year fixed rate notes.

Exclusive: At least 56 NLU-Jodhpur students have been placed in law firm or desk-based jobs in a batch of 87 students, unofficial sources have confirmed, with Luthra & Luthra hiring 14 students ahead of Trilegal with five, and one student securing a training contract with international firm Allen & Overy.

Mumbai-headquartered Pangea3 has opened its first US-based service delivery office in Dallas, Texas, plans first reported by Legally India at the time of the legal process outsourcing (LPO) company’s acquisition by Thomson Reuters last year.

Talwar Thakore and Associates (TTA), Linklaters, Wadia Ghandy & Co, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Simmons & Simmons have advised on British company Serco’s acquisition of Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) Intelenet for $634m marking private equity (PE) firm Blackstone’s exit from the BPO.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has advised US-based spice manufacturer and long standing client McCormick Inc. on its joint venture with Indian basmati rice maker Kohinoor Foods Ltd (KFL), led by Delhi law firm Swarup & Company, for marketing and selling KFL’s food and rice products in India.

Exclusive: Mumbai-headquartered Advani & Co has merged with Delhi start-up Accendo Law Partners bringing in three new partners to fully operationalise the firm’s Delhi office that had started in February this year.