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L&L acts for Awfis on $30m Series D investment led by ChrysCap
D&D, Constellation Blu do $12m Series B for Loantap
Lex Consult, AZB help $30m Arshiya warehouse sale, leaseback with Ascendas
Independent-again TMT (re)-opens Mumbai office with partners Sapna Chaurasia in media, Aahna Mehrotra in sports
TMT Law Practice, which had separated from Bharucha Singh Mundkur in March, has laterally hired two salaried partners and opened up in Mumbai.
Manan Lahoty + team of 17 commence CM at Indus, where clients considering IPOs (post complex transition)
L&L Partners capital markets head Manan Lahoty and a team of 17 other fee-earners have started working at IndusLaw’s offices on Saturday, 5 October, after a contentious exit.
JSA excom partner, ex-CCI chair Amitabh Kumar retires
J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner, executive committee member and previous competition law practice co-chair Amitabh Kumar has left the firm after reaching the partnership deed’s retirement age of 65 today.
DSK, L&L act on CK Jaipuria exit from Gamma Pizzakraft / Pizza Hut to Samara
CK Jaipuria Group has exited from Gamma Pizzakraft (Overseas) Private Limited, by selling the owners’ their collective shareholding of 26% of share capital to Sapphire Foods India Private Limited, which is part of Samara Capital. The CK Jaipuria Group comprises of Gamma Pizzakraft (Overseas) Private Limited, Jaipuria Beverages and Food Industries Private Limited, Ganpatie Traders Private Limited, C K Jaipuria and Amar Raj Singh.
Assentio Legal acts for fantasy sports operator Nostragamus on fundraise
Spice Route, Gamechanger acts on Uncanny Vision $0.7m fundraise
JM+P acts for Shuttl on $13.3m Series B with FIVE other law firms
Khaitan acts for Reliance Jio Haptik on buy of Mumbai’s Buzzo.ai
Legasis helps UK’s Invenio biz solutions buy Bangalore’s Proverbium
Link Legal CEO Jayanarayanan NR exits • HR consultant Rajneesh Singh joins as strategy head
Link Legal India Law Services chief executive officer (CEO) Jayanarayanan NR, who had joined the firm in February 2016 from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, has left the firm and will relocate to Mumbai.
Clarence Anthony returns from Embassy GC secondment to Trilegal partnership
Embassy Office Parks acting general counsel Clarence Anthony, who had been on secondment to the real estate developer from Trilegal since April, has returned to the law firm in Bangalore with a promotion into its equity partnership, in news that was first reported by Bar & Bench.
Link Legal hires (Lalit) Bhasin & Co’s Sanjay Gupta (DU ‘94) as disputes partner
Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) has hired Bhasin & Co lawyer Sanjay Gupta as a partner in its Delhi-based dispute resolution practice.
Mahindra buys into Ford India JV, in-house team leads $93m deal • KCo, CAM, Links do DD, Comp • JSA, HogLove for Ford
Ford Motor Co. will cede control of most of its India operations to Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M), underscoring the US company’s long-drawn struggles to make a bigger dent in the world’s fourth-largest automobile market
DMD poaches SAM’s Vivek Agarwal as partner, 1st competition full-timer
DMD Advocates has hired Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) principal associate Vivek Agarwal has joined DMD Advocates as its first full-time competition partner.
HC challenge nixes Luthra ex parte arbitral order in Rs 70 cr claim vs exiting partner Lahoty (but upholds non-solicit) [UPDATE-2]
Manan Lahoty, head of the crack capital markets team that is set to join IndusLaw soon, has won a major victory in the Bombay high court yesterday in a multi-hour hearing against his as-of-now-still employer L&L Partners.
AZB corporate partner Dhruv Singhal ‘returns home where he belongs’: Cyril Shroff
Dhruv Singhal, who had in August left AZB & Partners, after having moved there in 2016 from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, has re-joined the latter.