Jones Day has promoted India-focused banking and finance partner Sushma Jobanputra as partner-in-charge of its Singapore office to succeed David Longstaff.

Exclusive: AZB & Partners and J Sagar Associates (JSA) have advised India’s sixth largest IT firm Patni Computer Systems that was bought by Apax Partners-backed iGate for $1.22bn, which drafted in Khaitan & Co and Kirkland & Ellis as legal advisers.

Lexygen and Linklaters advised a Carlyle Group-led consortium of the losing bidders, where Amarchand Mangaldas is understood to have provided the advice to the bid’s merchant banks.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai has made two partner-level hires from Thakker & Thakker, which was closed at the end of last year by its founding partner in order to follow philanthropic pursuits full-time.

Private equity boutique Lexygen has taken on Yang Yen-Thaw, the Bangalore-based founder of Yang Lawyers, as a partner to relocate to its one-year-old Singapore office.

Mumbai-based firm Wakhariya & Wakhariya and Bachubhai Munim & Co have advised in Novartis Pharma’s 49 per cent $22.3m acquisition of Aventis Pharma’s equity in anti-rabies vaccine manufacturer Chiron Behring Vaccines.

Exclusive: Delhi-based legal process outsourcing (LPO) firm Lex Forska Solutions LLP is becoming an LPO-cum-law firm also catering to domestic clients after entering into an exclusive referral alliance with Silicon Valley immigration boutique Shah Peerally Law Group PC.

Exclusive: Bharucha & Partners has opened its first office outside Mumbai, entering New Delhi with partner Kumkum Sen from Raijnder Narain & Co, nearly a year after the firm opened in a second Mumbai location.

AZB & Partners Bangalore office has promoted senior associate Anind Thomas to its partnership.

One-and-a-half years after merging with Anup S Shah law firm in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, AZB & Partners and Anup Shah and his firm have decided to part ways as “best friends”.

Exclusive: Khaitan & Co has closed the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) of roughly Rs 2,500 crore ($550m) of outstanding debts of former Satyam-owned Maytas Infrastructure following the company’s agreement with the lender banks in June this year.

Luthra & Luthra has continued its Delhi-round of internal promotions taking the partner promotion tally to three this December with the latest promotion of managing associate J P Singh to an indirect tax partner.

Desai & Diwanji has advised IDFC Mutual Fund on its estimated Rs 300 crore ($66m) sale of a 25 per cent stake in IDFC Asset Management Company to French asset manager Natixis, which was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai.

Majmudar & Co and K&L Gates have advised on e-commerce enterprise Rearden Commerce’s world-wide acquisition of Ketera Technologies, which was advised by DLA Piper and Thakker & Thakker that will cease operating at the end of this year.

Exclusive: Start-up Vidhii Partners has opened its second Mumbai office, branching out into Bandra with a media law practice headed by new partner and former UTV Motion Pictures legal head Nandini Mehta.

Exclusive: M Dhruva & Partners and senior counsel Janak Dwarkadas won an interim order from the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) in favour of Ackruti City, allowing Ackruti’s promoters to pledge their own shares after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on 2 December banned the promoters from dealing in their shares following allegations of price manipulation.

Senior advocate Fali Nariman led industrial house Wadia Group’s victory in a high-profile property dispute matter in the Bombay High Court against real estate developers G L Raheja which was represented by Bharucha & Partners and senior counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi, reported the Economic Times.

Amarchand Mangaldas has advised J P Morgan India’s real estate investment fund on its partial Rs 115.23 crore ($25.4m) exit in B Raheja Builders to builder group K Raheja, which hired Wadia Ghandy as legal counsel.

Exclusive: The Bombay High Court declined interim relief in an action filed by M Dhruva & Partners on behalf of its client Crimson Hospitality Services against developers Lavasa Corporation, which allegedly violated a court injunction of an earlier public interest litigation (PIL).

Start-up firm Axon Partners LLP has closed nearly a year restructuring roughly $2bn of debt of steel producer Jindal Stainless (JSL), with Amarchand Mangaldas and Clifford Chance jointly advising a variety of lending banks.

AZB & Partners and Amarchand Mangaldas have advised on a majority of M&A mandates out of 26India-related transactions in November, according to data aggregated by mergermarket.