DLS Law Offices founder Dipti Lavya Swain, who was previously general counsel at Azure Power and partner at Luthra & Luthra, has joined HSA Advocates as a partner.

It is well known that nearly every Supreme Court case is in want of an advocate-on-record (AOR), and several lawyers and law firms have made this a core part of their Supreme Court practice. After analysing more than 120,000 of the Supreme Court’s daily orders from 2018, we have now compiled a list of the busiest advocate-on-record (AOR) firms in the apex court, according to the number of orders mentioning their names.

3 principal associate promos at IC Universal IC Universal Legal has promoted one senior associate each, in Chennai, Ahmedabad and Delhi, to principal associate level. New principal associates: Dikshit Mehta - Chennai Aditya Bimal Mehta - Ahmedabad Peeush Sharma - Delhi Sanchit Kapoor has been promot...

HSA Advocates has hired Gurgaon-based Kochhar & Co corporate partner Gaurav Sahay in its Bangalore office, that had recently seen the departure of partner Sharath Chandrasekhar (along with six others) to DSK Legal.

L itigator and Alpha Chambers Advocates & Solicitor founder Faranaaz Karbhari has joined HSA Advocates as counsel along with Rahul P Jain as an associate counsel in Mumbai. She specialises in disputes before high courts, company tribunals and arbitration, conciliation and Mediation, including d...

AZB & Partners Mumbai competition counsel Rahul Rai, who we had reported in February to have resigned from AZB’s partnership to take up an of counsel position at the firm, has joined the chambers of senior advocate Gopal Subramanium in Delhi last month, we understand from several sources.

Kieraya Furnishing Solution secured a Series C4 funding from various investors, including Lightbox Ventures II, Lightbox Expansion Fund and Crescent Enterprises Limited. Khaitan & Co advised Lightbox Ventures II and Lightbox Expansion Fund, as well as Kieraya Furnishing Solutions Private Limite...

The Oman India Joint Investment Fund has proposed acquiring shares of PnB Metlife India Insurance Company Limited (“PNB Metlife”) from The J&K Bank Limited. Oman India Joint Investment Fund is a private equity firm being a joint venture of Oman’s State General Reserve Fund and State Bank of Ind...

Prestige Estates Projects Limited, a company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, acquired Babji Realtors Private Limited, by its wholly owned subsidiary, Prestige Retail Ventures Limited (“PRVL”). Babji Realtors is in the business of real estate development and owns the ‘Forum Sujana Mall’ in Hyder...

OP Khaitan & Co founding partner Gautam Khaitan has secured bail on Tuesday after his second extended stint in jail relating to the long-running AgustaWestland chopper deal investigation, reported The Hindu and others.

Indian Supreme Court lawyers Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, both also NLSIU Bangalore graduates, have been selected for the prestigious US-based TIME magazine’s list of 100 most influential people of 2019, cited in particular for their work in overturning section 377.

“The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to invest $50 million in Avaada Energy Private Limited (AEPL) to help the company rapidly scale up photovoltaic solar energy generation capacity in India,” according to its press release . Indian Law Partners (ILP) advised Avaada Energy led b...

Private equity player HIG Capital has invested in US-headquartered company Medusind, which provides revenue cycle management services (including billing, coding, collections, payment posting and eligibility verification) to healthcare providers, health plans or other healthcare players, third party ...

Parinam Law Associates, which had been set up in November of last year by former ALMT Legal-JurisCorp partner Hitesh Jain and ex-J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Ravichandra Hegde, has promoted two of its co-founding partners to equity partner level, and two to salaried partners.

Pathology chain Metropolis Healthcare’s initial public offering (IPO) has seen major investor interest, raising Rs 1,204 crore, reported Mint and others. It is one of the few IPOs this year, in what has been a muted time for IPOs in the Indian capital markets. Khaitan & Co acted for the issuer,...

Following the en masse seven-partner poaching of a corporate-projects Delhi-Mumbai-Bangalore team from HSA Advocates, DSK Legal has now added HSA Delhi and Mumbai-based litigation partner Nand Kishore and his team of four fee-earners.

Series I investment by Germany’s Delivery Hero, Glade Brook Private Investors, Shunwei Ventures and Saturn Shine in Zomato Media, as reported by ET and others. Samvad Partners advised Zomato Media Private Limited led by a team of partner Ashwini Vittalachar ; senior associate Junaira Rahman ; and as...

Sale by Zomato Media Private Limited of its UAE business through its branch office situated in Dubai to Talabat Middle East Services Company LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delivery Hero SE, as reported by ET and others. Samvad Partners advised Zomato Media Private Limited led by a team of partner...

IndusLaw has promoted four of its lawyers to partnership, as well as four to principal associates and nine to senior associate, according to its press release.

Karanjawala & Co has promoted 6 to principal associate and 10 to senior associate level, according to its press release. The firm consists of around 100 fee-earners, including 9 partners. Founding partner Raian Karanjawala said in the release: “We are now a team of approximately 100 lawyers and...