More deals than you can shake a stick at in our handy round-up of deals activity, with dozens of firms keeping busy.

This fortnight’s deals package conspicuously features international investors, not only in terms of cross-border M&As and investments but also on the litigation side.

Senior associate and partner promotions at 5 firms, including three new partners HSA Advocates, one partner promotion at Bhasin & Co, two new Vaish senior associates, one MV Kini partner and two FoxMandal laterals and 10 senior-level associates.

Exclusive: Former AZB & Partners and HSA Advocates lawyer Souvik Ganguly, who started up Acuity Law late last year, has closed his first venture capital (VC) advisory transaction and taken on new office space in Mumbai.

Exclusive: HSA Advocates Mumbai partner and office head Utsa Shome, who had joined the firm in 2009 from AZB & Partners, will head up Kolkata firm Argus Partners’ new Mumbai office.

HSA Advocates has hired Abhishek Dutta and Nand Kishore as partners from BMR Advisors to start an indirect tax practice, according to the firm. The hires expand the firm’s partnership to nine in Delhi and two in Mumbai, according to HSA partner Navin Syiem. Dutta who had studied at NLSIU Bangalore w...

Exclusive: Hemant Sahai Associates has rebranded itself to HSA Advocates and hired two later partners, including one Herbert Smith senior associate and senior Delhi litigator Meenakshi Arora, taking the firm up to 10 partners.

Hemant Sahai Associates (HSA) acted as sole legal advisor on a micro finance investment by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation in Delhi-based organisation Invest India Micro Pension Services Private Limited (IIMPS) raising roughly $1m for retirement pension plans and other savings.

Hemant Sahai Associates and Paras Kuhad & Associates have split only two months after announcing the ill-fated merger of their practices to create PHA Advocates.

Hemant Sahai Associates has recruited an AZB senior associate as a partner in Mumbai, after recently merging with Paras Kuhad & Associates to create a national firm called PHA Advocates.

Paras Kuhad & Associates’ ex-Mumbai head has started a new firm under the banner Vidhii Partners, along with one partner and three associates from the firm which merged with Hemant Sahai earlier this month.

The two co-founders of Paras Kuhad & Associates’s Mumbai have quit as one is to start a new law firm and the remaining office continues working on last week’s merger with Hemant Sahai Associates.

Hemant Sahai Associates and Paras Kuhad & Associates have merged to create a firm of over 100 lawyers and streamlined office locations, following significant headcount reductions.