Law Firm League Tables

Financial Year (March-end)

Nishith Desai Associates

Offices
Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Munich, Mumbai-BKC, New Delhi and New York.

Total
Partners

Female Partners

Total
Fee-earners

Partner to Fee-earner Leverage Ratio

3610811.3
(headcounts dated 13 April 2018)

M&A + PE/VC table 2020-21

Deal
Count

Deal
Values
($m)

$1bn+
count

$200m+
count

$50m+
count

$10m+
count

<$10m
count

Unknown
values

Foreign
deals

91,997123111

#

Deal

Client

Lawyers
(show associates)

Other
firms

Deal
Value
($m)

Date

Sub category

Unacademy $50m stake increaseSteadview CapitalIndusLaw
Bharucha and Partners
Gunderson Dettmer
50Jan 2021
Unicorn Pine Labs $100m fundraise KCoMadisonPoonam Sharma, Deepika Yadav,Phoenix Legal
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Goodwin Procter
AZB & Partners
Khaitan & Co
100Dec 2020
Unacademy mega fundraise into two billiion dollar valuation territorySteadview CapitalIndusLaw
Bharucha & Partners
Gunderson Dettmer
General Atlantic
Dec 2020
2015 founded Xpressbees $110m investmentSpecial Situation InvestmentSimone Reis, Abhinav Harlalka, Devanshi Jaiswal,IndusLaw
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
110Nov 2020
Raise $6m Treebo Hotels from existing investorsKarst PeakSimone Reis, Deepa Rai,Rajaram Legal
S&R Associates
AZB & Partners
6Oct 2020
Doubly blockbuster $300m Byju buy of code academy Whitehat JrNexus Ventures
Omidyar Network
Owl
Rajesh Simhan, Parag Srivastava, Anusha Reddy, Shipra Padhi, Ipsita Agarwalla,Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas300Aug 2020
Rare non Jio investment in $1.2bn Abu Dhabi Mubadala round s, DPMubadala Investment CompanyPratibha Jain, Rajesh Simhan, Parag Srivastava, Ashish Sodhani, Atikant Kaur, Sindhu Sambrani, Jaideep Reddy, Inika Charles, Jyoti Gautam,AZB & Partners
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Davis Polk & Wardwell
1,200Jun 2020
S animal healthcare player SeQuent bought by s Carlyle $209mSeQuent
Arun Kumar
Simone Reis, Shreyas Bhushan, Amudavalli Kannan,AZB & Partners
White & Case
209May 2020