IndusLaw, Shearman & Sterling and Neupane Law Associates advised the Dutch development financing institution, FMO and a consortium of lenders on the $142.5m financing of the proposed 82 MW Nepalese Lower Solu hydropower project. The Nepalese company Essel-Clean Solu Hydropower and the Indian co...

Former Clifford Chance senior associate Rishi Gautam will join AZB & Partners in Mumbai as a corporate partner in January.

Luthra & Luthra and Clifford Chance advised CLSA India, Citigroup Global Markets India, Credit Suisse Securities (India), ICICI Securities, Kotak Mahindra Capital Company and IDFC Securities as joint book running lead managers on CESC’s $80m qualified institutional placement (QIP) of 7.6m share...

Some of the deals lawyers have been working on this month that we didn’t manage to cover separately.

Link Legal advised GMR Infrastructure which raised Rs 1,477 crore ($246m) through qualified institutional placement (QIP). Clifford Chance and Amarchand Mangaldas advised Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, Axis Capital and ICICI Securities who were the lead managers to the issue. Link Legal ...

Khaitan & Co and Clifford Chance Hong Kong advised HSBC’s Hong Kong branch on its $30m term loan facility to the State Bank of India’s Shanghai branch for general corporate purposes. Khaitan banking partner Devidas Banerji (who joined the firm from CC in 2010 ) and Clifford Chance partner Matth...

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has promoted four women and three men to its partnership in London after Linklaters did the same earlier this month for the first time. Women still make up a minority of partners in UK firms but some firms, such as Herbert Smith Freehills, have recently introduced a...

Swatanter Kumar lashes back : Former SC judge and National Green Tribunal head Swatanter Kumar – who was accused of sexual harassment by an ex-intern from NUJS Kolkata according to Friday’s media reports – sent a legal notice to three media houses demanding an apology from them within 24 hours for p...

London international firms beat US firms in recognition and volume stakes.

Khaitan & Co and Clifford Chance advised Chinese textile machinery manufacturing company Jiangsu Jinsheng in its CHF 500m or Rs 2,940 crore ($537m) buy of the textile components business of Swiss engineering company Oerlikon which was advised by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Clifford Chance India group partner and Amarchand Mangaldas alumnus Sumesh Sawhney has resigned to join Jones Day in London.

London-headquartered firm Clifford Chance has entered into a Formal Law Alliance (FLA) in Singapore with newly-founded litigation boutique Cavenagh Law, under the Singapore government’s new structure for international firms to operate in Singapore and offer local law advice. The boutique firm was se...

Gurgaon-based OSC Export Services – international law firm Clifford Chance’s five-year-old captive Indian LPO-cum-offshoring-centre – has doubled in size to 60 consultants in the last two years. 27 Clifford Chance offices across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and USA sent over 500 projects to the LPO...

Competition Commission of India orders investigation into Bharat Matrimony’s complaint against Google’s anti-competitive practices and abuse of dominant position, CUTS to follow suit with complaint next week [ Hindustan Times ] Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan withdraws PG student’s plea in SC strik...

Naz rap in SC: Vahanvati concludes blaming 377 on Brit Raj in sexually advanced land evidenced by imaginative heritage sculptures [ Express Buzz ] Karnataka HC CJ Vikramjit Sen questions Katju’s support to journos in Bangalore lawyers V journos [ The Hindu ] Clifford Chance axes 13 out of 1000 Londo...

LI-Mint exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI), regulator of the legal profession, has indicated it might appeal against Tuesday’s Madras high court ruling allowing foreign lawyers to visit the country to advise clients on foreign law.

Amarchand goes down under for $1.3bn GVK coal mine buy with Minters, Cliffords; Ex-AZBer’s Vishnu gets busy with Credit Suisse; Vaish hits the capital markets; JSA, KhaiCo, Amarchand disinvest in NYSE-Co; Amarchand restructures Alstom; and Naik gets a John Doe order.

Mirah Hospitality with Desai & Diwanji; Amarchand, Rajani, Khaitan on $350m Welspun PE; Luthra in EU pharma tax case; ELP AP tax victory for MAS-GMR; Khaitan-Clifford on StanChart loan; SRGR-KJSV project; JSA-Prolegal consultancy.

Khaitan-Trilegal inject $78m into Caparo Energy; JSA, Amarchand, S&R on LVMH luxury Genesis investment; Khaitan double teams with Clifford Chance on StanChart loan, AZB’s $1.4bn steel loan, plus sports, projects and Kolkata litigation.

**Breaking: Amarchand Mangaldas Bangalore, Luthra & Luthra and Clifford Chance have led on Petronas International’s $2.1bn exit of Vedanta Resources-part-owned Cairn India, according to lawyers on the deal.