Singapore-based dental product brand Zenyum has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by L Catterton, according to a company announcement. — Dealstreetasia The investment was undertaken in the form of primary issuance of preference shares as part of the Series B funding round undertaken by Zeny...

C redit Suisse Mumbai-based in-house counsel Swagata Bhattacharya has been appointed as the multinational bank’s new head of legal for India. She takes over the role from Sapna Bhawnani , who has been acting as interim India legal head after she had been promoted as head of legal for South Asia at C...

Dailyhunt’s parent VerSe is on a funding streak. Barely one-and-a-half months after completing a USD 100 million-plus funding round from AlphaWave, Google, and Microsoft, at a valuation of over USD 1 billion, the holding company of the local language news aggregator app has raised another USD 100 mi...

Saveo Healthtech, a B2B e-commerce marketplace for pharmacies, … said it has raised $4 million (about Rs 29.1 crore) in funding, co-led by Matrix Partners India and RTP Global. — Moneycontrol Rajaram Legal advised Matrix Partners India and RTP Global led by a team of senior associate Mihir Roy , ass...

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India … said it has completed the acquisition of 500 Mega Watt (MW) Bhander power plant in Hazira, Gujarat. — Moneycontrol AM/NS India, a joint venture of ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, is getting closer to securing ancillary units that were not part of the Essar Steel ac...

Propine Technologies, a company engaged in the business of tokenisation, issuance and custody of digital assets along with related ancillary services, raised funds from Woodstock Capital Fund I and Woodstock Capital Fund II and three other venture capital funds. Halder & Associates advised Prop...

Carlyle will buy a 25% stake in Indian telecom firm Bharti Airtel Ltd’s data center arm for $235 million, the U.S. private equity group said on Wednesday, as it taps into the rapid growth of digital services in India. The acquisition, by an affiliate of Carlyle, will give Airtel’s Nxtra Data Ltd an ...

ReNew Power … said it has acquired Climate Connect, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning start-up, to get access to energy management services. It added that the acquisition would strengthen ReNew Power’s ongoing digital and analytics initiative which aims to leverage its data and op...

Gogreenbov has raised seed funding from the Shell E4 Startup Incubator program, according to the incubator.

HSA Advocates advised Gogreenbov led by a team of associate partner Vatsal Gaur and senior associate Mitra Arabandi.

Also advising was the Shell in-house legal team.

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Mumbai. As covid-19 spread increases the need for social distancing, Wagonfly that provides contactless shopping and delivery experience for its customers, … said it raised about $500,000 from Investment Trust of India (ITI) group-led early stage venture capital fund, ITI Growth, and angel investor ...

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...

MeraKisan Private Ltd., a part of the $20.7 billion Mahindra Group, and a player in the organic agri business market, with a focus on organic food supply chains, today announced its partnership with Ajinkya Rahane, Vice-Captain of the Indian Test Cricket team. As part of this partnership, Ajinkya ha...

Delhi-based Jindal Defence, part of O P Jindal Group, today announced its foray into small arms manufacturing in India via a joint venture (JV) agreement with Taurus Armas S.A., of Brazil. — Business Standard ALMT Legal Bangalore advised Taurus Armas SA led by a team of partner Rajat Bopaiah , and a...

Ford Motor Co. will cede control of most of its India operations to Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M), underscoring the US company’s long-drawn struggles to make a bigger dent in the world’s fourth-largest automobile market

Link Legal India Law Services international arbitration partner Saloni Gupta, who had joined two years ago from Kochhar & Co, will be joining US computing hardware giant Apple in its India operations in a strategic policy role, with a remit to build its legal team.

Internally sometimes called the youngest legal head of India’s largest and oldest biscuit maker, Britannia Industries head of legal Burhan Khalid has litigation on his platter, and a lot of it.

A couple of months ago, I completed one year as the general counsel (GC) for Inshorts, the widely popular news app which summarizes a range of news stories in just sixty words for easy consumption and understanding by the users.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Delhi regulatory and policy salaried partner Nitin Kala, joined the Dubai headquarters of a subsidiary of Mumbai-founded tech company Directi, as first reported by Bar & Bench.

General counsel (GCs) from at least 15 big Indian companies welcomed liberalisation in Indian legal services, and said that the Bar Council of India (BCI) was currently the “biggest bottleneck” to law firm liberalisation.

For B4U Television’s director and head legal Natasha Fernandes, sustaining a small TV and movie distribution company’s business in the face of a regulatory threat to its main revenue model – advertisements – is the biggest challenge.