Law Firm League Tables

Financial Year (March-end)

Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS)

Offices
New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Gurgugram, Hyderabad and Chennai

Total
Partners

Female Partners

Total
Fee-earners

Partner to Fee-earner Leverage Ratio

3441804.3
(headcounts dated 03 December 2020)

M&A + PE/VC table 2019-20

Deal
Count

Deal
Values
($m)

$1bn+
count

$200m+
count

$50m+
count

$10m+
count

<$10m
count

Unknown
values

Foreign
deals

241,559248642

#

Deal

Client

Lawyers
(show associates)

Other
firms

Deal
Value
($m)

Date

Sub category

$130m Megha Engineering & Infrastructures buy of Italys Trevi Group (Mar ‘20)Megha Engineering & InfrastructuresNusrat Hassan, Anand Srivastava, Yosham Vardhan, Deepali Menghwani, Neil Lopez, Rahil Thakkar,Gianni
Origoni
Grippo
Cappelli & Partners
Tremonti Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati
Steptoe & Johnson
Morgan
Lewis & Bockius
130Mar 2020
GOI sale of Kamarajar Port to Chennai Port Trust $314mChennai Port TrustMilind Jha, Apurbalal Malik, Shailender Sharma, Shailender Sharma, Kashish Arora, Aarohi Londhe,DSK Legal
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
314Mar 2020
Leg of Hexagon COWI buy (Jan ‘20)
(Foreign deal: Europe)
COWIVijai Mathur, Vinu Peter Immanuel, Pragathi P, Aditi Sharma,TrilegalJan 2020
Shuttl $18m Series C: JMP,LightspeedManish Gupta, Ashish Ahluwalia,Jerome Merchant + Partners
Themis Associates
Phoenix Legal
18Oct 2019
$15m Series B DarwinboxSequoia
Lightspeed
Endiya
Manish Gupta, Pratyush Khurana, Rashi Singh,Rajaram Legal15Sep 2019
Mumbai Alkem Labs$6m acquisition of Sikkim biz of Cachet PharmaAlkem LaboratoriesNusrat Hassan, Yosham Vardhan, Ankit Agarwal, Lopez,6Sep 2019
Twitter rare foray: $100m Series D in s ShareChatShareChatManish Gupta, Vinu Peter, Rashi Singh,Khaitan & Co100Aug 2019
Vir Sanghvis investment in product reviews start MishryMishry.comAnuj Trivedi, Sanya Haider,Aug 2019
Vedantu e ducation platforms $42m WestBridge, Tiger Series CTAL EducationManish Gupta, Ashish Ahluwalia,L&L Partners
Bharucha & Partners
L&L Partners
42Aug 2019
$8m Freight Tiger Series ALightspeedManish Gupta, Vinu Peter, Anubhuti Bhardwaj,Hreem Legal
Khaitan & Co
8Jul 2019
Continues growing 1MG ties $70m Series D1MG TechnologiesPratyush Khurana, Ashish Ahluwalia, Rashi Singh,AZB & Partners
Themis Associates
Sequoia Capital
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
70Jun 2019
Chinas Qiming Ventures $15.2m investment in PratilipiQiming VenturesAnuj Trivedi, Sanya Haider, Pankaj Sevta,Mani Chengappa & Mathur15Jun 2019
$12.2m Metro Bikes 2 wheeler rental Series AWickedride Adventure Services
Metro Bikes
K Venkat Satyanarayana, Rashmi Menon,Rajaram Legal
Themis Associates
Poovayya & Co
12May 2019
& Co $6.3m Kobe Steel buyout of L&T steel JVLarsen & ToubroManish Gupta, Vinu Peter Immanuel, Ashish Ahluwalia,Chaddha & Co6May 2019
UKs Claranet buy of NotSoSecure pentesters
(Foreign deal: UK)
Claranet GroupNusrat Hassan, Yosham Vardhan,May 2019
K IDFC Alt buy of 40MW solar plant from IL&FSIDFC AlternativesManish Gupta, Dinesh Pardasani, Shivam Tandon, Prateek Ghei,K LawMay 2019
$25m Healthkart fundraise from SofinaHealthkartManish Gupta, Vinu Peter, Anubhuti Bhardwaj,Themis Associates25May 2019
S $1.6m Series A ClassplusClassplus
Bunch Microtechnologies
Manish Gupta, Pratyush Khurana, Ashish Ahluwalia,Pier Counsel2May 2019
Hindustan Media in $0.56m funding of journalism platform PebbleHindustan Media VenturesManish Gupta, Vinu Peter, Vivek Tiwari,1May 2019
GAIL $695.7m buy of ILFS wind energy portfolioGAIL (India)Manish Gupta, Anuj Trivedi, Pratyush Khurana, Sanya Haider, Anubhuti Bhardwaj,696Apr 2019
JM P Shuttl $13.3m Series B FIVE other law firmsLightspeedJerome Merchant + Partners
Phoenix Legal
Novojuris
Themis Law Associates
AZB & Partners
13Apr 2019
PayU $70m acquisition of Californias WibmoWibmoK Venkat Satyanarayana, Apurbalal Mallik, Hari Priya, Shivam Anand, Lipika Ahuja,J Sagar Associates (JSA)
Gunderson Dettmer
70Apr 2019
$5m Beijing TAL Education investment in Vedantu line learning startup Series B3TAL Education GroupManish Gupta, Ashish Ahluwalia, Sanya Haider, Pankaj Sevta,IndusLaw5Apr 2019