Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) London-based India litigation head Nick Peacock, who had been with the firm for more than 20 years, has joined Bird & Bird and will head up its international arbitration team from London.

NEW DELHI : Digital technology firm Tata Communications … said it has acquired 58.1% stake in France-based eSIM company Oasis Smart SIM Europe SAS (Oasis). — Mint Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) advised Tata Communications led by a team of partner Mark Robinson , Singapore, managing partner Frederic B...

Paris-based independent power producer Total Eren SA and EDF Renouvelables, of the Electricite de France SA group (EPA:EDF), have achieved financial close on a 450-MWp solar project in India. — Renewablesnow Herbert Smith Freehills advised Total-Eren S.A and EDF Renouvelables SA as sponsors and thei...

With Bharti Enterprises-led low earth orbit (LEO) broadband satellite communications company OneWeb emerging from US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and achieving all relevant regulatory approvals, chair man Sunil Bharti Mittal said that beginning mid-December till October 2021, the company will la...

These days there are probably few if any lawyers who, locked up at home for weeks and often 24 hours a day, has not pondered about their mental health.

DMart operator Avenue Supermarts on Tuesday said it has raised Rs 4,098 crore from share sale, which included investors such as Lone Cypress and the Singapore Government. The company in a regulatory filing said it issued and allotted 2 crore shares at an issue price of Rs 2,049, under a qualified in...

Former Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) India practice head Nimi Patel has joined Squire Patton Boggs as director in its India practice in London.

Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) scholars will now have a direct route to internship and job opportunities in Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), in addition to financial support during their LLB courses, according to an IDIA and HSF press release.

“State-owned reinsurance company General Insurance Corp. of India (GIC) filed the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) for its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO will see a total stake dilution of 14.22%, according to the DRHP available on the website of one of the investment banks managing the share sale,” reported Mint.

“The initial public offering of Central Depository Services Ltd (CDSL) received bids for 170 times the number of shares on sale, making it the most attractive IPO in nearly 12 years. The public offering of 24.83 million shares – excluding the anchor investors’ portion – got bids for nearly 52 million shares, stock-exchange data showed at the end of bidding on Wednesday. This translates into bids worth Rs 62,653 crore ($9.7 billion),” reported VC Circle.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas acted for Avenue Supermarts on one of the largest (Rs 1800 crore) and most oversubscribed (106 times) initial public offerings (IPOs) ever, alongside Luthra & Luthra and Herbert Smith Freehills Singapore for the banks, listing with a valuation of Rs 39,998 crore - the 67th largest Bombay Stock Exchange-listed company.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has topped the mergermarket value league table of international law firms that advised on M&A deals in the record 2016 calendar year.

“On 21 December, RCom signed a binding agreement with Brookfield to sell a 51% stake in Reliance Infratel for Rs11,000 crore. RCom currently owns close to a 96% stake in the company, while the remaining ownership is with minority investors,” reported Mint on 29 December 2016.

“State-owned NBCC’s share sale garnered 1.54 times subscription from institutional buyers, who put in bids totalling more than Rs 2,700 crore,” reported the Economic Times.

“India has a new tech unicorn. Hike, a four-year-old messaging app, today announced that it has closed $175 million in funding led by new investors Chinese internet giant Tencent and manufacturing firm Foxconn. The Series D round values the company at $1.4 billion, founder and CEO Kavin Bharti Mittal confirmed to TechCrunch,” reported Techcrunch.

Khaitan & Co and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) advised Kotak Securities, ICICI Securities and Citigroup Global Markets on brokering a $175m (Rs 1,165 crore) offer for sale (OFS) by the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) which was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Duane Morris. Khait...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas advised Infosys founders S Gopalakrishnan and SD Shibulal on the Rs 862 crore ($130m) sale of 7.5 million equity shares of Infosys, with brokers Citigroup Global Markets India advised by AZB & Partners and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF). CAM Mumbai capital markets partn...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) advised the finance ministry on the disinvestment of 10 per cent stake in Engineers India (EIL), through an Offer for Sale (OFS). Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Jones Day advised the brokers SBICAP Securities, ICICI Securities, Edelweiss F...

Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Baker & McKenzie are the highest profile foreign law firms operating in India, according to the latest analysis of foreign law firms’ India businesses.

Herbert Smith Freehills partner of 30 years and India country head Chris Parsons was on leave from the firm for a month starting 10 January to “sleep under buses, [do] physiotherapy lying on dust [and] eat in Dhabas” as he walked 42km everyday from Mumbai to Bangalore to raise $1m for Indian widows.