Bharucha & Partners has promoted Mumbai senior associate Ajai Achuthan as its eighth partner.

According to several sources, S&R Associates partner Rajat Sethi and UK firm Slaughter and May partner Susannah Macknay have been advising Vodafone on its long-awaited Rs 80,000 crore ($12.2bn) merger with Idea, which was formally announced today.

“Square Yards Consulting Pvt. Ltd, a real estate listings and advisory firm, has raised $12 million from the private equity arm of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group,” reported Mint.

Economic Laws Practice advised Google Capital on leading a funding round in GirnarSoft’s auto classified ads website CarDekho. GirnarSoft was advised by Bharucha & Partners. Themis Associates advised Sequoia, BMR Legal advised Times Internet and Goodwin Proctor advised Hillhouse Capital and Tyb...

Vaish Associates advised luxury merchandise e-tailer Radiant Hues on the $2m (Rs 13.8 crore) sale of stake in it to the Anil-Ambani controlled Reliance Capital which was advised by Bharucha & Partners. Vaish Delhi partner Satwinder Singh and senior associate Varnika Sharma acted for Radiant. Bh...

Bharucha & Partners advised Idea Cellular on its Rs 3310 crore ($500m) buy of Videocon’s Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat circle telecom spectrums, reported the Economic Times . Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) advised Videocon. Bharucha partner Alka Bharucha, senior associate Siddharth Manchanda, an...

Bharucha & Partners Delhi disputes partner Kapil Arora will join Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas with a team of three associates.

Vandana Pai Bharucha, former Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate partner who left in July 2014 reportedly for health reasons, will join Bharucha & Partners as a partner.

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 Delhi and Mumbai regions, managed by brothers Shardul and Cyril Shroff respectively, have agreed to split into two firms by 1 April 2015, confirmed three independent sources.

Senior counsel Iqbal Chagla told the Bombay high court in his closing remarks that his client Cyril Shroff would be filing an affidavit showing the “deep involvement” of his brother in the will.

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff has filed legal action in the Bombay high court against his brother and Mumbai-region managing partner Cyril Shroff.

ALMT Legal advised UK-based testing services provider Exova Group Plc in its acquisition of Mumbai-based material testing lab Metallurgical Services which was advised by Bharucha & Partners. ALMT senior partner Aliff Fazelbhoy and partner Statira Ranina acted for Exova on the deal which, accord...

Naveen Goel Law Offices (NGLO) and Olswang advised Europe’s largest independent visual film effects provider Double Negative on its merger with Reliance Capital’s global film and media business Prime Focus. Prime Focus was advised by Bharucha & Partners and Linklaters. NGLO partners Rishi Bhatn...

Deals round-up of more than a dozen recent instructions.

Desai & Diwanji advised Mumbai-based infrastructure company Shapoorji Pallonji Group as Bharucha & Partners advised Malaysia-based IJM Corporation in jointly selling 74 per cent equity in their Tamil Nadu highway expansion project concessionaire Trichy Tollway (TTPL) to Macquarie SBI Infra...

Luthra & Luthra Mumbai acted for private equity house Tano Capital, which invested Rs 80 crore ($13.4m) in agri-logistics company Shree Shubham Logistics, a subsidiary of Kalpataru Power Transmission, which was advised by Bharucha & Partners. Luthra Mumbai partner Deepak THM and associates...

Lexygen acted for private equity firm Norwest Venture Partners in investing Rs 60 crore ($10.5m) in Bangalore-based cold chain logistics firm Snowman Logistics, which was advised by Bharucha & Partners. Lexygen founding partner Vijay Sambamurthi with associate Neelima Kumar acted for Norwest, w...

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.

Last month’s largest deals and the legal advisers that guided and benefited from them.