IC Universal Legal has hired ARA Law private equity and M&A partner Rowena De Sousa as a Mumbai-based partner in corporate, while also making two internal partner promotions in its corporate team - Nitesh Tiwari and Kavita Pancholi - and eight associate promotions.

Fitness discovery and booking platform Fitternity on Tuesday said that it has raised close to $4 million from consumer centric domestic venture fund Sixth Sense Ventures. — Yourstory Vertices Partners advised Fitternity Technologies Health E-Solution Private Limited led by a team of managing partner...

ARA Law has hired K Law Bangalore-based associate partner Subharekha Ravi as co-head of its private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) practice.

Mumbai-based Paysense Services India Pvt. Ltd, which operates an online consumer lending platform, has raised $18 million (Rs 123.88 crore) in a Series B funding round, a company statement said. — VCCircle ARA Law advised Paysense Pte Limited, Nexus Ventures and Jungle Ventures led by a team of mana...

Ad tech startup “Affle added Indian hedge fund Malabar Investments to its list of backers”, reported YourStory . The deal took place via a secondary sale of the shares of Affle (India) Private Limited to Malabar India Fund Limited and Malabar Value Fund. ARA Law advised Malabar India Fund Limited an...

Mohalla Tech owned vernacular social networking platform, Sharechat has raised Ra 720 crores ($100m) in a new funding round led by existing investors Shunwei Capital and Xiaomi together with Hong Kong-based Morningside Ventures, DST Global, Lightspeed, SAIF Partners, India Quotient and Venture Highw...

“Green Visor Capital announces follow-on investments in Flutterwave and Simpl, two emerging payments companies targeting commerce in Africa and India, respectively,” according to News Wire.

ARA Law acted for customer support firm Freshdesk in it’s acquisition of Konotor, a mobile based user engagement platform developed by software company Demach who were advised by Agama law Associates. ARA Bengaluru partner Avik Karmakar acted for Freshdesk. Agama Mumbai partner Archana Balasubramani...

Mumbai private equity boutique ARA Law has promoted two principal associates, Rowena De Sousa and Avik Karmakar, to salaried partner level.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas had advised the Grofers Group - a start-up that delivers groceries and other sundry items to homes from nearby shops - on its $36m investment by Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital and Apoletto Asia, which closed this week . Tiger Global was advised by ARA Law managing partner ...

Samvad Partners advised Bengaluru gaming firm Moonfrog Labs in raising $15m (Rs 94 crore) from Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital. Tiger Global was advised by ARA law, Nishith Desai Associates and US firm Gunderson Dettmer. Sequoia was advised by Themis Associates and in house. Samvad partner Harish N...

Juris Corp, I&S Associates, Indus Law, MDP & Partners, along with Amarchand Mangaldas, AZB & Partners, Khaitan & Co, Luthra & Luthra, Trilegal and others kept busy on 15 selected deals.

M&As and capital markets transactions take a marginal lead over litigation, competition and private equity and venture capital deals, in our three-week roundup.

Finsec Law Advisors has taken on its first lateral partner, with ARA Law senior associate Indrajit Mishra coming on board to build the transactional private equity practice at the financial sector advisory boutique.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has boosted its private equity and corporate practice with the hire of ARA Law partner Darshan Upadhyay under the new associate partner designation, which reduces the size of ARA’s partnership to one.

ARA Law has hired Kanga & Co partner Ashish Bhakta as a partner to head its infrastructure practice.

Mumbai private equity (PE) boutique ARA Law is mulling opening a Hyderabad office and expanding in Bangalore, having most recently advised on a Rs 60 crore Hyderabad hospital investment by private equity house Milestone Religare Investment Advisors.