The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined 14 car manufacturers Rs 2,554 crore for having “imposed absolute restrictive covenants” with authorised dealers and local original equipment suppliers (OES), and “completely foreclosed the aftermarket for supply of spare parts and other diagnostic ...

AZB & Partners came out on top of a 2014 first-half-year league table released by corporate analytics company Venture Intelligence, recording 22 deals worth more than $2bn.

Madhurima Mukherjee, who had left Luthra & Luthra a year ago, has joined AZB & Partners in Delhi as a capital markets partner, according to several authoritative sources.

AZB & Partners advised Bharti Airtel in selling over a fifth of its 15,000 telecom towers located in four African countries to Helios Towers Africa, which was advised by Vinson & Elkins. AZB Delhi partner Gautam Saha, senior associate Amrita Patnaik and associates Asha Kutty and Srishti Sh...

Mergermarket Q1 M&A value leader AZB & Partners slipped to seventh spot in 2014’s half-yearly rankings, while Q1 ninth-ranked Amarchand made up the lag to top spot.

Trilegal advised Nephro Health Services in International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Bessemer Venture Partners’ $10m investment in it. AZB & Partners advised IFC and P&C Legal advised Bessemer. Trilegal partner D Pavan Kumar, senior associate Emil Joseph and associate Dennis John acted f...

AZB & Partners Delhi office has promoted three of its lawyers to partnership, with Abhinav Ashwin, Sachin Mehta and Shuchi Sinha having been given the nod. Tax lawyer Ashwin had joined from Ernst & Young in 2008, after graduating in 2005 from NLSIU Bangalore. Sinha joined from P&A Law...

AZB & Partners Delhi partner Debashish Sankhari has resigned to look for a role which is “a mix of entrepreneurship and legal practice”, reported legal website Bar & Bench . Sankhari graduated from NLSIU Bangalore and joined the advocacy group of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative fo...

Desai & Diwanji advised Fidelity Capital in the sale of its equity in Laurus Labs, which was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas, to Warburg Pincus which was advised by AZB & partners.

Amarchand Mangaldas advised India’s largest port operator Adani Ports Special Economic Zone in its Rs 5,500 crore ($930m) buy of the Dhamra port from L&T Infrastructure and Tata Steel, which were advised by AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Shameek Chaudhuri. Amarchand Mumbai managing partner ...

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Desai & Diwanji advised Delhi-based oil company HAL Offshore and its investment bank Equirus Capital in a controlling stake buy-out of the BSE and NSE-listed company Seamec for around Rs 253 crore, opposite AZB. AZB Mumbai capital markets partner Shameek Chaudhuri and senior associate Rinki Gan...

AZB & Partners Delhi partner and capital markets practice head Meera Singh has resigned the firm, according to Bar & Bench . Singh told the website that she was leaving for personal reasons and would continue to work flexibly with the firm on individual assignments. Delhi managing partner ...

NUJS Kolkata’s 2015 graduating batch has accepted 27 job offers across seven firms with a mix of 16 so-called Day Zero offers made after interviews on campus on April 16 and 11 pre-placement offers (PPOs) made after internships to students.

AZB, Trilegal and Luthra had the biggest reported deals in the first quarter of the year, which was a bit of a let down compared to the first quarter of 2014 but is looking up.

At least three domestic law firms acted on Vodafone UK’s buyout of Vodafone India shareholders to take full control over its Indian subsidiary for more than $1.6bn.

AZB & Partners has promoted Bhavi Sanghvi to partner in Mumbai.

AZB & Partners acted for Tata’s subsidiaries Trent and Trent Hypermarket that entered into a joint venture with Anglo-global supermarket retail behemoth Tesco, which drafted in Trilegal.

Five lawyers from HSA Advocates, J Sagar Associates (JSA), Luthra & Luthra, AZB & Partners and Zeus IP have started Delhi firm Jupiter Law Partners.

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