IndusLaw advised India’s largest taxi aggregator Ola Cabs, backed by Japan’s Softbank Corp, in raising $314m (Rs 1,952 crore) from Russian Yuri Milner’s DST Global which was advised by AZB & Partners and Goodwin Procter. Indus Delhi partner Gaurav Dani, senior associate Divya Varghese and assoc...

Getting the ratio of partners to non-partner fee-earners right has its rewards, but it is, at best, an inexact science.

In what will possibly have been its last quarter of existing as a single firm, Amarchand Mangaldas again acted on the most valuable M&A deals though AZB & Partners emerged as the firm with the largest number of recorded transactions.

Khaitan & Company advised Snapdeal on India’s biggest acquisition in the e-commerce space yet – the $450m (Rs 2,800 crore) buy of mobile commerce platform Freecharge which was advised by AZB & Partners, reported Bar & Bench . Khaitan Bangalore Partner Abhilekh Verma acted for Snapdeal...

AZB & Partners has promoted 10 lawyers to partner level, with two getting the nod in Mumbai and 10 in Delhi.

Amarchand Delhi’s Shardul Shroff is set to take two additional office spaces in Mumbai after mediation will end, including the soon-to-be-ex Nariman Point office of AZB & Partners.

by: JSA advised multiplex giant PVR in buying back private equity firm L Capital’s stake held in PVR Leisure which was advised by AZB & Partners. JSA Delhi partner Sidharrth Shankar and associates Shantanu Jindel and Priyam Singh acted for PVR. AZB Delhi partner Vinati Kastia and senior associa...

Amarchand maintained its standing as India’s clear M&A leader topping the annual chart for the third year in a row.

AZB & Partners, Norton Rose Fulbright and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy advised the joint lead managers the notes trustee on Delhi International Airport’s (DIAL) $288.75m issue of notes, on which DIAL was advised by Link Legal India Law Services and Davis Polk & Wardwell. AZB partne...

Crawford Bayley, AZB & Partners and Covington Burling advised Mumbai-based Famy Care on the $800m (Rs 4,944 crore) acquisition of its female contraceptives business by the world’s second largest drug maker Mylan. Mylan was advised by Luthra & Luthra and Cravath Swaine & Moore. Platinu...

Induslaw advised baby care products e-tailer FirstCry in raising $26m from San Francisco-based hedge fund Valiant Capital Partners (which was advised by AZB & Partners) and from existing investors IDG Ventures India, Ventex Venture Holdings and SAIF Partners, which were also advised by Indus an...

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Nandish Vyas, together with senior associates Kunal Doshi and Tushar Raut, and associate Natasha Sethna, will today join the firm that was started by former AZB CEO Abhijit Joshi in November . Vyas’ joining was first reported by Bar & Bench in December, with h...

Bharucha & Partners advised social media giant Twitter on its first acquisition in India, in its $30m buy of missed-call marketing platform ZipDial Mobile Solutions, which was advised by AZB & Partners.

Amarchand Mangaldas, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Osborne Clark and Anand Gujadhur advised Silicon Valley Bank on its Rs 280 crore acquisition by Temasek Holdings, which was advised by AZB & Partners and Linklaters. Amarchand Mumbai corporate partners Ashwath Rau and Shishir Vayttaden...

You may have noticed that Legally India’s once-much-beloved newsletter of 122 issues had sadly been on a multi-year hiatus. Well, it’s back.

Khaitan & Co consultant Abhishek Awasthi, who had joined in August 2014 from SRGR Law Offices where he was a partner, has joined AZB & Partners in Noida as a senior associate to expand its real estate team. AZB Delhi managing partner Ajay Bahl commented that the firm was “very pleased” wit...

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Essaji Vahanvati will go part-time at the firm from tomorrow (15 January).

AZB & Partners has hired ex Indian Revenue Service (IRS) senior official KP Singh as a partner in Delhi to specialise in regulatory and indirect tax, who joined earlier today. “We were [eagerly] waiting for the government to give him his release,” said AZB Delhi managing partner Ajay Bahl. “We ...

AZB & Partners 2013-partner Nandish Vyas will join ex-AZB senior partner and CEO Abhijit Joshi who has started his own firm in Mumbai. Vyas, who was promoted to AZB’s partnership in 2013 and specialises in private equity and M&A, confirmed to Bar & Bench that he would be joining Joshi...

Amarchand Mangaldas advised Infosys founders NR Narayana Murthy, SD Shibulal, Nandan Nilekani and K Dinesh alongside family members Kumari Shibulal, Deeksha Dinesh, Asha Dinesh, Akshata Murthy, Sudha Murthy, Rohini Nilekani and Divya Dinesh, who together have sold around 32.6 million Infosys shares ...