Dua Associates v Saikrishna in trademarks; PXV, Desai & Diwanji in PE.

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Exclusive: Former Tatva Legal Bangalore co-founding partner Manoj Menon has joined Dua Associates as an equity partner in Bangalore to head the firm’s private equity and M&A practice, three years after he left as a salaried partner at the firm to Tatva.

IndusLaw’s Hyderabad office advised Kaizen Private Equity, which with German publishing giant Bertelsmann invested $4m (Rs 22 crore) in AuthorGen Technologies, that was advised by Dua Associates in Mumbai. AuthorGen’s majority shareholder Educomp, which will become a minority shareholder after the s...

Dua & Associates advised domestic private equity (PE) fund Aditya Birla Sunrise in its Rs 53.5 crore ($10m) investment in fine dining restaurant chain Olive Bar & Kitchen which was advised by Naik & Naik.

Exclusive: Dua Associates launched a tax practice in the firm’s Gurgaon office after appointing former Deloitte Haskins & Sells tax director Ashutosh Mahajan and a team of five Deloitte chartered accountants (CA) and one former PricewaterhouseCoopers in-house lawyer last month.

Trilegal, Amarchand Mangaldas, Singh & Singh, Link Legal, AZB & Partners, Vichar Partners, Universal Legal, Dua Associates, DSK Legal, White & Case, Nishith Desai & Associates, Desai & Diwanji, and more in the latest top instructions for law firms and lawyers…

Breaking: The Supreme Court has given 10 weeks to serve 31 foreign law firms and the respondents in the apex court appeal against the AK Balaji Madras writ petition, with the Bar Council of India (BCI) arguing that the law should prohibit foreign lawyers from even temporarily travelling to India to advise clients.

Former Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi Associate and NLSIU Bangalore 2001 graduate Pranav Sharma will return to head the Delhi finance and insolvency practice of the firm this August, after six years at Linklaters London.

Khaitan & Co advised public sector undertaking Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in its external commercial borrowing (ECB) of Rs 1,343 crore ($250m) from State Bank of India, Singapore which was advised by Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow and Dua Associates.

Deals with Dua Associates, AZB & Partners, Khaitan & Co, Vichar Partners, Majmudar & Co, J Sagar Associates (JSA) and more…

Exclusive: Dua Associates Hyderabad has advised on the construction of a major NCC Infrastructure Rs 7,047 crore power project with Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi leading for the lenders, one year after India Legal merged with Dua following Tatva Legal’s mega-breakaway.

Vaish Associates Advocates and Dua Associates’ Amarchand Mangaldas partner lateral hire have advised on German tyre manufacturer Continental AG’s full buy-out of Indian Modi Tyres.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Dua Associates have advised on Sanmar Group’s exit from joint venture Fisher Sanmar with JV partner Emerson Group buying out complete 51 per cent stake of Sanmar for $135m . JSA M&A partner Sandeep Mehta and associates Dharmesh Kotadia and Mitesh Shah acted for the ...

Majmudar & Co, Dua Associates and J Sagar Associates (JSA) have advised on the $12m venture capital investment by Reliance Venture Asset Management and GE Oil and Gas in renewable energy firm AllGreen Energy for its first biomass project in Tamil Nadu.

The TURF Twenty20 tournament between law firms for the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) Cup has kick-started this year’s cricket frenzy as 16 teams from four pools prepare themselves to battle it out on the fields.

Exclusive: Entrepreneurial ambitions have encouraged three partners from Universal Legal, Dua Associates and Paras Kuhad Associates to start a new law firm in Chennai under the banner Vichar, which in Sanskrit means idea, thought or opinion.

Amarchand Mangaldas equity corporate partner Himanshu Narayan has resigned the firm to join Dua Associates in Delhi.

Dua Associates Mumbai partner Mahernosh Humranwala and his team are on notice to join Tatva Legal next month and will head up the half-year-old firm’s Mumbai growth efforts, which was formed by 50 former Dua lawyers.

Spanish national law firm Garrigues and Dua Associates have entered into a “non-exclusive cooperation agreement” to “organise seminars, edit publications and develop secondment programmes”.

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.