Genetic diagnostics, research and data company MedGenome has raised $55 million (about Rs 419 crore) in a new round of funding, led by global impact investment firm LeapFrog Investments, the Bengaluru-headquartered company announced on Wednesday. The company’s two existing backers, Sequoia Capital a...

Debevoise & Plimpton London-based associate Shashwat Patel has moved to London-headquartered corporate firm Simmons & Simmons as counsel and UK corporate head of its India group.

“Belgium-based Aliaxis SA has agreed to acquire the 40% stake it doesn’t already own in joint venture Ashirvad Pipes Pvt. Ltd from the partner Poddar family,” reported VCCircle . Debevoise & Plimpton partners Geoffrey P Burgess , Lord Goldsmith QC and Samantha J Rowe with associates Shashwat Pa...

McDonald’s India has approached the Delhi high court seeking to enforce a 13 September London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) partial award to appoint experts to value and sell estranged former managing director Vikram Bakshi’s stake in the North and Eastern India local franchise of the fast food giant, reported Mint, the Economic Times and others.

Ramya S Tiller (formerly Ramya Seetharaman when at NLSIU Bangalore until 2002), has been promoted to US international firm _Debevoise & Plimpton_’s partnership in New York alongside three other partners in New York, and three in global offices.

AZB & Partners’ Mumbai and Delhi offices advised on both sides of the financial services joint venture between India’s largest private sector enterprise Reliance Industries and US investment group D E Shaw with Debevoise & Plimpton and Covington & Burling.