Sun Pharma bought debt-ridden pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy for $4bn from Daiichi Sankyo.

Seven years after advising India’s largest realtor DLF in its $250m buy of Aman resorts, Luthra & Luthra advised DLF in selling Aman back to its owner Adrian Zecha for $358m (Rs 1,600 crore).

Correction: We published some erroneous designations in the A&O team. We regret the error, which has now been corrected. S&R Associates and O’ Melveny & Myers advised Swiss asset managers Partners Group in buying 80 per cent equity for Rs 1,620 crore ($270m) in US-based IT services co...

AZB & Partners and DLA Piper advised Indian engineering design company Rolta in its $200m bond sale on the Singapore stock exchange. Trilegal and Davis Polk & Wardwell advised the joint lead managers Barclays, Citigroup, DBS Bank and Deutsche Bank. Trilegal partner Srinivas Parthasarathy w...

AZB & Partners and DLA Piper advised Indian engineering design company Rolta in its $200m bond sale on the Singapore stock exchange. Trilegal and Davis Polk & Wardwell advised the joint lead managers Barclays, Citigroup, DBS Bank and Deutsche Bank. Trilegal partner Srinivas Parthasarathy w...

AZB & Simpsons reprised roles for KKR, with Amarchand and Davis Polk acting for the sellers.

Amarchand Mangaldas scored a first-time mandate for Japanese conglomerate NEC Corporation in assisting Davis Polk & Wardwell in its $449m (Rs 2280 crore) acquisition of US telecoms company Convergys Corporation’s information management (IM) business.

Davis Polk, J Sagar Associates (JSA), Lexygen and a raft of overseas firms have advised on the Morgan Stanley-led consortium’s $425m (Rs 1,900 crore) investment in Indian power company Asian Genco.

Desai & Diwanji and Tatva Legal, with Davis Polk & Wardwell and Richards Butler advised on private equity house Quadrangle Capital and others’ $300m investment in India’s second largest operator of telecoms towers Tower Vision India.

AZB Mumbai partner Shuva Mandal led the team for DSP Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, which were mandated by the company for the share sale.

AZB, DSK and Trilegal have done well in Asia Pacific private equity deal rankings despite heavily depressed values and volumes this year.