Indian Law Partners (ILP) advised Navratna Bharat Retail (NBR) on its joint venture (JV) partner Richemont’s buyout of NBR’s 49 per cent equity in their JV RLG Retail. Richemont was advised by AZB & Partners. ILP Mumbai counsel Kanika Premnarayen, senior associate Vineet Gupta and associate Seh...

Khaitan & Co overtook Amarchand Mangaldas in data provider mergermarket’s half-yearly (H1) M&A charts by value, with the first quarter of Amarchand functioning as the split firms of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM). AZB & Partners maintained its deal volume lead which it has claimed for two consecutive years.

AZB & Partners’ private equity (PE) practice again won it the top place in the half-yearly league table of data provider Venture Intelligence, making the firm the half-yearly league leader in this space for the third consecutive year.

Alongside two recent lateral hires at other firms, J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai partners Somasekhar Sundaresan and Rohitashwa Prasad bagged the mandate for InterGlobe Aviation, which operates the airline IndiGo, on its proposed initial public offering (IPO) that is expected to raise Rs 2,500 cror...

Suzlon Energy senior legal counsel Naved Askari, who was heading the company’s corporate and operations legal team, is to join AZB & Partners as a Mumbai-based counsel, reported Bar & Bench . The 1998 GLC Mumbia graduate has previously worked at Mulla & Mulla, Wadia Ghandy, and Wockha...

In a week that’s seen a raft of companies hitting the markets, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Bangalore partner Arjun Lall has scooped the mandate advising Cafe Coffee Day on its Rs 1,150 crore initial public offering (IPO), with AZB & Partners and Baker & McKenzie acting for the banks. AZB Del...

G Padmanabhan, executive director at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has joined AZB & Partners in Mumbai as a senior consultant, according to authoritative sources. He had been at the RBI for 36 years according to his Linked-in profile, and had become executive director in 2011, looking after ...

, Gopal (r)“)Senior associates Nanditha Gopal and Percis Anklesaria will be promoted to partner.

Sexual harassment appears to be everywhere these days, yet it was always so. Complaints, on the other hand, seemed to be rarer only a few years ago.

Luthra & Luthra is acting for fast-growing RBL Bank of 183 branches, formerly called Ratnakar Bank, which aims to raise Rs 1,100 crore ($173m) via initial public offering (IPO), with AZB & Partners and Dorsey & Whitney acting for the bankers, led by Kotak Mahindra Capital Company. AZB...

S&R Associates acted the Vodafone Group in its sale of $200m Bharti Infotel, representing around 4.2% interest in Bharti Airtel, to Bharti Enterprises, which was represented by AZB & Partners. S&R partner Rajat Sethi and associates Tanya Aggarwal and Lakshmi Pradeep acted for Vodafone...

AZB & Partners advised global Argentina-founded IT and software development company Globant on buying, for up to around $25m, Pune-based product engineering firm Clarice Technologies which was advised by Khaitan & Co. AZB Bangalore partner Anind Thomas and senior associate Percis Anklesari...

AZB & Partners advised International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Desai & Diwanji (D&D) advised GIC in their Rs 1,020 crore equity infusion, alongside Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), into microfinance institution Bandhan, which was advised by Khaitan & Co. AZ...

Trilegal and Canadian law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt advised the largest Canadian contract research organisation (CRO) JSS Medical Research on its Rs 9.5 crore ($1.5m) buy of CRO Max Neeman Medical International which was advised by AZB & Partners. Trilegal partner Charandeep Kaur, coun...

HSA Advocates replaced AZB & Partners in advising infrastructure company Lanco Infratech on India’s largest acquisition in the thermal power space in 2014 - the Rs 6,300 crores ($1bn) sale of Udupi Power Corporation to the Adani group which was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas. HSA partners Navin...

Venture Intelligence, which tracks private equity transactions “involving India-based companies” has published its ranking for the first quarter of 2015.

AZB & Partners former Delhi partner Ritika Rathi will join the soon-to-be-started Delhi firm of Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff.

“)If all you care about are the top spots, not much has changed in the rankings of the 40 leading corporate Indian law firms that London-based RSG Consulting has produced since 2008.

Amarchand Mangaldas, Morgan Lewis & Bockius and its Singaporean merger partner Morgan Lewis Stamford advised India’s second largest software firm Infosys, on its $120m buy of US-based digital and mobile commerce solutions provider Kallidus. Kallidus was advised by AZB & Partners and Fenwic...

Saikrishna & Associates won the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) approval for the Walt Disney movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, securing its release in theatres today after the CCI failed to find anti-competitive behavior by the Hollywood producers.