Law Firm League Tables

Financial Year (March-end)

Trilegal

Offices
Mumbai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Bengaluru

Total
Partners

Female Partners

Total
Fee-earners

Partner to Fee-earner Leverage Ratio

5093506
(headcounts dated 17 May 2019)

M&A + PE/VC table 2018-19

Deal
Count

Deal
Values
($m)

$1bn+
count

$200m+
count

$50m+
count

$10m+
count

<$10m
count

Unknown
values

Foreign
deals

3026,7497734451

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Deal

Client

Lawyers
(show associates)

Other
firms

Deal
Value
($m)

Date

Sub category

BigBasket $150m investment from Mirae, Alibaba, CDCAlibabaRohan Ghosh Roy, Vinit Patwari, Divyajyot Verma, Pulkit Chaturvedi, Karn Shukla, Mohona Thakur,Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
J Sagar Associates (JSA)
150Mar 2019
$200m buy of Shapoorji Pallonji solar assets by Sprng EnergyActis
Sprng Energy
200Mar 2019
LL, Tata GIC SSG consortium $1.16bn buy into GMR AirportsTata
GIC
SSG
Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Gautam Chawla, Akshay Nanda, Shravani Shekhar, Mathew George, Samali Verma, Shambhvi Sinha,L&L Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
J Sagar Associates (JSA)
Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS)
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Vaish Associates
Nishith Desai Associates
1,160Mar 2019
K $8m womens network Healofy fundraise from China, OmidyarBaby Tree GroupK Law
Samvad Partners
8Mar 2019
Fractal Analytics $200m cash injection by d PE fund Apax, s,Khazanah Nasional BhdShardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Latham & Watkins
AZB & Partners
Kirkland & Ellis
Nishith Desai Associates
Veritas Legal
200Jan 2019
Zomato $50m Series J round from AntfinAnt FinancialRohan Ghosh Roy, Divyajyot Verma, Pulkit Chaturvedi, Karn Shukla, Joysheel Shrivastava, Harsha Pisupati, Akshath Mithal,Samvad Partners50Jan 2019
$1m pre Series A Leverage Ed Tech from Blume, DSGBlume Ventures
DSG Consumer Partners
Kunal Chandra, Aditi Jain, Associate Akriti Gupta,GameChanger Law Advisors1Jan 2019
USCrowdanalytix fundraise from Macnica
(Foreign deal: US)
MacnicaCharandeep Kaur, Clarence Anthony, Harshit Anand, Dhruv Malhotra,Jan 2019
& D, raise $14m Series B LetsTransport from Fosun, BertelsmannCharandeep Kaur, Harshit Anand, Clarence Anthony,Desai & Diwanji
S&R Associates
Wadhwa Law Offices
14Dec 2018
Byju calls giant $540m fundraise from s Naspers, CPNaspersYogesh Singh, Samsuddha Majumdar, Nikhil Narendran, Nitika Chhabra, Ramya Suresh, Komal Dani, Deepika Yadav, Manan Jain, Jishnu Sanyal,Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
AZB & Partners
Gunderson Dettmer
540Dec 2018
JMP, IIFL Seed in $22.3m investment in KogtaKogta FinancialKunal Chandra, Harshil Dalal, Akshat Shrivastava, Akriti Gupta,Jerome Merchant + Partners
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
22Nov 2018
Scores 1st reported deal Zomato $210m Series I funding, Ali,Ant FinancialRohan Ghosh Roy, Vinit Patwari, Divyajyot Verma,Samvad Partners
Themis Associates
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
210Nov 2018
LKS $7m Sukkhi line Series ALex Consult
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS)
7Oct 2018
Jio goes shopping $399m: Reliance Industries, HathwayHathway Cable & DatacomSridhar Gorthi, Kunal Chandra, Harshil Dalal, Deep Choudhuri, Debaditya Datta, Akriti Gupta,Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas399Oct 2018
Shinryo Corps buy of Suvidha EngineersShinryo CorporationCharandeep Kaur, Harshit Anand, Dhruv Malhotra,Mori Hamada & MatsumotoOct 2018
$86m Gemini Edibles & Fats minority stake investment by food PE fund Black RiverBlack River Food 2Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas86Sep 2018
KWM Canadian CDPQs $365m buy of CLP IndiaCLP IndiaCyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Shearman & Sterling
King & Wood Mallesons
365Sep 2018
Advs, do $19m acquisition of Miles Software by EbixZephyr PeacockYogesh Bhattarai, Sagar Godbole, Harshavardhan Goel,L&L Partners
IC Universal Legal
19Sep 2018
Launch $14m distressed assets JV VardeVarde PartnersYogesh Singh, Ankush Goyal, Ramya Suresh, Deep Choudhuri, Itisha Gupta,AZB & Partners14Aug 2018
$1bn funding in Star HealthRakesh JhunjhunwalaSridhar Gorthi, Ashwyn Misra, Jeet Chaudhuri, Swapnil Phadnis, Diksha Maheshwari,Nishith Desai Associates
Platinum Partners
AZB & Partners
Phoenix Legal
L&L Partners
Samvad Partners
1,000Aug 2018
Singapore Malaysia $1.1bn buy Fortis HealthcareIHH Healthcare BerhadHarsh Pais, Upasana Rao, Sanjam Arora, Pooja Menon,Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Khaitan & Co
Allen & Gledhill
L&L Partners
S&R Associates
1,100Jul 2018
Suminter Organics responsAbility fundraiseresponsAbilityVeritas LegalJul 2018
Swiss Co Leclanches JV Exide to make lithium ion batteriesLeclancheAkshay Jaitly, Charandeep Kaur, Nikhil Narendran, Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Moksha Bhat, Shringarika Priyadarshini, Dhruv Malhotra, Kiron Noronha, Nirupama Jayasimha,Shardul Amarchand MangaldasJun 2018
Softbank in latest $238m investment into s PolicyBazaar,SoftbankSamvad Partners
Khaitan & Co
J Sagar Associates (JSA)
238Jun 2018
KT, Innova / Jabra JV GN AudioGN AudioCharandeep Kaur, Harshit Anand, Dhruv Malhotra,KT AdvisorsMay 2018JV
$5.9m Future Retail buy of FoodworldDelano Furtado, Sunayana Bose,Desai & Diwanji6May 2018
Comp Ultratech Cement $1.2bn buy of Century Textiles cement bizUltraTech CementNisha Kaur Uberoi, Soumya Hariharan, Atreyee Sarkar, Ankita Gulati, Saksham Dhingra, Mathew George, Nandini Pahari,Khaitan & Co
Vaish Associates
Bharucha & Partners
1,200May 2018
Flipkart in record $16bn sale 14 Walmart globalNaspersYogesh Singh, Nisha Kaur Uberoi,Khaitan & Co
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Hogan Lovells
Argus Partners
J Sagar Associates (JSA)
16,000May 2018
$2.1bn Schneider mega sale to Larsen & ToubroSchneider Electric
Temasek
Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Soumya Hariharan, Nandita Sahai, Atreyee Sarkar, Ankita Gulati, Nandini Pahari, Saksham Dhingra, Shiv Johar, Harshita Parmar,AZB & Partners
Khaitan & Co
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Bredin Prat
Economic Laws Practice (ELP)
2,100May 2018
Record takeover in green energy space: $1.66bn Renew buy of OstroOstro EnergyHarsh Pais,Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas1,660Apr 2018