Allen & Overy (A&O) has appointed two Singapore-based partners, Sheila Ahuja and Pallavi Gopinath Aney, as joint chairs of its India group, after the departure of London-based former India head Sanjeev Dhuna.

Gautam Narasimhan to co-lead A&O Singapore office A llen & Overy (A&O) has appointed partner Gautam Narasimhan , a 2000 NLSIU Bangalore graduate who had spent his entire career abroad, as the co-head of its Singapore office. According to a press release from Allen & Over, he took...

New Delhi: Realty firm Lodha Group on Friday said its UK subsidiary has raised $200 million (around Rs 1,473 crore) through issuance of bonds in the Singapore market and the amount will be used to repay debt. Lodha Developers International launched $225 million bond-issue on February 27. — The Econo...

Four law firms have bagged what could be the last big initial public offering (IPO) in a long while, considering the damage the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking across global financial markets, picking up roles on the short-lived blockbuster SBI Cards and Payments Services subsidiary of State Bank of I...

New Zealand’s Fonterra … agreed to sell its 50% stake in DFE Pharma for NZ$633 million ($400.37 million) as the world’s biggest dairy exporter trims its overseas portfolio to focus on domestic business. — Reuters It is a leading global excipients manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry. DFE Pha...

Amsterdam-based Global University Systems (GUS) is in talks to buy the India business of US-based Laureate Education for at least Rs 1,200 crore, said two people familiar with the development. This will be one of the largest buyout deal in the private education space. — The Times of India The deal h...

Jitesh Shahani has on Monday joined L&L Partners from the Singapore office of Allen & Overy (A&O), three months after we had first reported his impending move in August.

L&L Partners has begun the process of rebuilding its capital markets practice and is finalising the hire of Jitesh Shahani, currently Allen & Overy (A&O) senior associate in Singapore, as well as Luthra alumnus and Nalsar Hyderabad 2005 graduate.

Debt capital markets lawyer Pallavi Gopinath Aney has left Baker & McKenzie Singapore to join Allen & Overy (A&O) as a partner, Bar & Bench has reported.

A consortium of private equity investors led by CX Partners has acquired “significant equity ownership” of Ahmedabad-based Veeda Clinical Research for an undisclosed amount. — Dealstreetasia Platinum Partners advised CX Partners led by a team of partner Ankit Majmudar , partner Abhik Ghosh , associa...

Shree Cement Ltd, one of India’s top three cement makers, is looking to close the acquisition of Union Cement Co. PSC by July, a few months ahead of plans, according to Subhash Jajoo, Shree Cement’s chief financial officer,” reported Mint . Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Shree Cement led by ...

Allen & Overy’s Hong Kong-based India group lawyer Amit Singh, who had been promoted to A&O’s partnership in 2014, has joined Linklaters in Singapore as a partner, according to a Linklaters press release yesterday.

Leading tyre manufacturing company, Apollo Tyres raised upto Rs. 1500 crores (USD 230 million) via issue of shares to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) as reported by The Economic Times and Business Standard . The placement document was filed with the Indian stock exchanges on October 6, 2017 an...

“A week after the Essar group signed a mega $12.9bn deal to sell Essar Oil and Vadinar Port to Rosneft of Russia, three banks — ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and Standard Chartered Bank — have received over $2.5bn (around Rs 16,750 crore) from the Essar group towards repayment of loans to Essar Global,” reported the Indian Express.

Shearman & Sterling, DLA Piper, White & Case and Allen & Overy had the largest number of recorded Indian M&A deals in the first six months of 2016, according to data intelligence provider mergermarket, each with five or four transactions.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Allen & Overy (A&O), and tax firm Dhruva Advisors, advised former GE Capital executives Pramod Bhasin and Anil Chawla’s fund Plutus Financials and Aion Capital Partners on buying GE Capital Services India and GE Money Financial Services. The GE firms were advi...

Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Baker & McKenzie are the highest profile foreign law firms operating in India, according to the latest analysis of foreign law firms’ India businesses.

Amarchand Mangaldas maintained its top spot in intelligence provider mergermarket’s M&A league rankings this quarter.

Allen & Overy (A&O) advised BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank, as joint lead managers and bookrunners, on ONGC Videsh’s issue of more than $2.2bn worth of bonds. J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised ONGC Videsh. A&O Hong Kong par...

Amarchand Mangaldas and Linklaters advised India’s fourth largest private bank Yes Bank in raising Rs 2,942 crore ($500m) through a qualified institutional placement (QIP). Amarchand Mumbai capital markets partners Yash Ashar and Abhimanyu Bhattacharya and Linklaters Singapore managing associate Pal...