AZB & Partners Mumbai is advising Loop Telecom, which is being acquired by Bharti Airtel that is handling the legal work in-house.

Economic Laws Practice advised watches and jewellery retailer Titan in hatching a joint venture with luxury goods maker Montblanc International for single brand retail in India.

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) advised the world’s largest palm oil maker, Singapore-based Wilmar International, in buying a controlling stake in Renuka Sugars for $200m (Rs 1,242 crore). Renuka Sugars was advised by Crawford Bayley while AZB & Partners advised the promoters the Murkumbi family...

Amarchand Mangaldas emerged as the large law firm with the highest ratio of female lawyers ranked by the 2014 Chambers and Partners lawyer directory, while J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Trilegal came lowest with as few as 6 per cent of senior female lawyers.

14 Indian law firm partners and senior associates will be named as “up and comers” and “associates to watch” in legal directory Chambers and Partners’ yet-to-be released Asia Pacific 2014 guide.

Amarchand Mangaldas maintained status quo as project finance leader for the third year running and reported a greater overall deal revenue since last year, according to data provider dealogic’s year end table for 2013.

Deal counts set new records while deal sizes didn’t reflect the count, indicating that all firms are taking the middling deal route to bring in the dough.

Former AZB & Partners senior associate and ex-Jones Day lawyer Priya Mehra was promoted to of counsel at US law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s Singapore office, effective January 2014. Mehra is part of the firm’s India practice which was also strengthened by former AZB senior associate Bhar...

Yogesh Bhattarai, who left AZB & Partners’ equity partnership in 2012 for a sabbatical, has joined Trilegal.

Wadia Ghandy partner Anand Shah, with his team of four associates, will join AZB & Partners in the New Year as a senior associate on partnership track.

As year-end approaches and law firms send out a flood of press releases for the annual deals league tables, Legally India has wrapped up the most interesting ones in one tidy package.

ALMT & Partners represented Pune-based Emcure Pharmaceuticals, in which private equity house Blackstone sold 13.09 per cent for Rs 650 crore ($105m) to Bain Capital; seller and buyer were advised by AZB & Partners Mumbai and Delhi respectively. ALMT Mumbai partner Hitesh Jain and senior as...

AZB & Partners advised private equity (PE) firm Warburg Pincus as Wadia Ghandy advised PE firm Faering Capital in investing Rs 300 crore ($49m) in ladies ethnic wear maker Biba Apparels which was advised by OP Khaitan & Co.

Amarchand Mangaldas advised private equity major KKR on its Rs 1,300 crore ($200m) investment into pharma products company Gland Pharma, advised by AZB & Partners, with existing investors represented by Wadia Ghandy and Tatva Legal. Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff and Bangalore c...

Luthra & Luthra advised Indian private equity and real estate firm Everstone Capital in its joint venture with international fast food giant Burger King.

Amarchand Mangaldas advised Singapore Airlines in its 49 per cent Rs 615 crore ($100m) joint venture (JV) with Tata Sons, which was advised by AZB & Partners. Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff and corporate partner Indranath Bishnu acted for Singapore Airlines on this first-ever tr...

Desai & Diwanji has acted for US NASDAQ-listed Philadelphia-headquartered bank Customers Bancorp, which invested $22m in Religare Enterprises that was assisted by AZB & Partners in Delhi. This was Desai & Diwanji’s first instruction for Customers Bancorp, which bought a 5 per cent sta...

Amarchand Mangaldas has reported the most M&A activity among Indian law firms this year, according to data provider mergermarket’s Q1-Q3 rankings.

Thomson Reuters, advised by Khaitan & Co, has bought Bangalore trading software company Omnesys, advised by Samvād Partners. AZB & Parters and Vaish Associates acted for minority investors. The buyer Thomson Reuters was advised by Khaitan & Co, with partner Rabindra Jhunjhunwala and a...

AZB & Partners, J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Khaitan & Co have advised on the Baring Private Equity Asia buy-out and open offer of IT and BPO firm Hexaware Technologies for a total of around Rs 2,745 crore ($440m). AZB Mumbai partners Abhijit Joshi and Essaji Vahanvati acted for Hexaware a...