Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas acted as Indian legal counsel to SunEdison Inc, which bought an Indian wind platform of Continuum Wind Energy, advised by BMR Legal, through acquisition of its Singapore holding company. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai-based partners Santosh Janakiram and Smruti Shah led f...

BMR Legal indirect tax partner Madhav Rao, who had joined the sister law firm of consultancy BMR Advisors one year ago from Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, has left BMR to join Advaita Legal as a senior attorney, reported Bar & Bench . Advaita was set up in December 2013 by BMR co-founding partne...

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

Induslaw represented Olacabs, which must fast be turning into one of its most high-profile and valuable clients, in a $200m takeover of TaxiForSure.

Economic Laws Practice advised Tano India Private Equity Fund II on its investment in MSH Sarees, which owns the Jashn brand and was advised by BMR Legal. ELP partner Suhail Nathani, associate partner Vinayak Burman, senior associate Archana Khosla and associates Amoolya Narayan and Trishna Sharma a...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group on its $32.8m buy of a 54.8 per cent stake in Chennai-based publishing and technical services company Newgen Knowledge Works, which was advised by Universal Legal. JSA Chennai partner Aarthi Sivanandh and senior asso...

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan has hired former BMR Legal partner Raghavendra Rao as an executive director to head its direct tax practice.

The Bombay high court Tuesday ruled in favour of the Indian arm of Royal Dutch Shell on two transfer-pricing adjustments made by the income tax department - of Rs 15,000 crore and Rs 3,000 crore for 2007-08 and 2008-09, respectively - to the taxable income of Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd (SIMPL). BMR...

BMR Legal has continued advising online ticketing website BookMyShow in its latest fundraising round of Rs 150 crore by existing venture capital investors SAIF Partners and Accel Partners, who have continued relying on Indus Law.

BMR Legal has opened an office in Bangalore with two partners from Themis Associates and their six-member team of lawyers.

Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan (LKS) partner and head of indirect tax litigation Madhav Rao joined BMR Legal in Delhi as partner on 1 April, handling indirect tax litigation.

Former AZB & Partners senior associate, Souvik Ganguly, who founded start-up law firm Acuity Law, as reported by Legally India in February 2012, has joined BMR Legal as a partner.

Former BMR Legal co-founding partner Sujit Ghosh has set up tax litigation firm Advaita Legal with ex-KPMG partner Sunil Moti Lala. Ghosh is based in Delhi, Lala is based in Mumbai and the firm has 30 lawyers across its offices in the two cities, reported legal website Bar & Bench . According t...

DSK Legal advised software firm Datamatics Global Services in partnering with multimedia solutions company PreMedia Global in data publishing and e-retail. Amarchand Mangaldas advised PreMedia’s parent Lexicon Publishing Services, and BMR Legal and IndusLaw advised its existing investors, which were...

S&R Associates and Kirkland & Ellis advised the UK-based Kewill group and its backers Francisco Partners, in buying Hyderabad-based software solutions provider Four Soft for Rs 265 crore ($43.4m). Four Soft was advised by BMR Legal.

Luthra & Luthra advised India’s largest multiplex operator PVR in its Rs 1,000 crore contract with BMR-advised Big Tree.

BMR’s latest recruit, Amit Khansaheb, seals second deal at consultancy’s legal arm.

Vaish Associates and Crawford Bayley advised Delhi-based liquor firm Globus Spirits in raising Rs 70 crore ($13m) from Templeton Strategic Emerging Markets Fund IV LDC (TSEM) which was advised by BMR Legal’s new hire from Desai & Diwanji.

Desai & Diwanji Delhi partner Amit Khansaheb, who had been with the firm for 18 years, has joined BMR Legal – the legal services arm of consultancy firm BMR Advisors – as a partner in order to ramp up the firm’s M&A and private equity legal practice.