J Sagar Associates (JSA) retained partner Chitra Narayan in Chennai will go independent to focus on mediation, reported Bar & Bench . She told the website, “I have been a mediator with the Tamil Nadu Media & Conciliation Centre for about ten years and a year and a half ago I along with oth...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai partner Nandini Mehta left the firm to join realty portal Housing.com as its general counsel, reported Money Control and several others further to a company press release.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Reliance Capital (RCAP) on the Rs 1200 crore ($180m) sale of 14 per cent stake in Reliance Capital Asset Management (RCAM) to Japan’s largest life insurance company Nippon Life Insurance (NLI). NLI was advised by Khaitan & Co and Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. ...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Union Bank of India on its acquisition of 49 per cent shareholding in its joint ventures, Union KBC Asset Management Company (KBC-AMC) and Union KBC Trustee Company (KBC-TC) from KBC Participation Renta. KBC Participation Renta was advised by BMR Legal. JSA Mumbai pa...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised renewable energy company BLP Energy on its $33.8m (Rs 220 crore) acquisition by Italy’s Enel Green Power which was advised by Khaitan & Co and Ashurst Singapore and Italy. JSA partner Sidharrth Shankar and associates Prakriti Jaiswal and CV Srikant acted for BLP...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Fidelity Growth Partners on investing $9m (Rs 60 crore) in Shadowfax Technologies which was advised by Avigna Law. JSA Delhi partner Manvinder Singh, senior associate Zain Pandit and associates Sonali Kapoor, Ritika Arora and Akhil Bhardwaj acted for Fidelity. Bangal...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) acted for First Carlyle Ventures Mauritius, whose affiliate is advised by The Carlyle Group, and the promoters and management shareholders of telecoms software company Elitecore Technologies Limited, in their sale of 100 per cent of Elitecore for Rs 180 crores to optical fib...

Legasis Partners advised used vehicles online marketplace CredR’s owner Incredible Technologies in raising $15m from Eight Roads Ventures, which was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA). Legasis Pune partner Apurv Sardeshmukh and Mumbai partner Yogesh Chawak acted for the less than one-year-old start...

Dina Wadia and Shivpriya Nanda have been elected unopposed to become the J Sagar Associates (JSA)’s first joint managing partners.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai capital markets partner Kaushik Mukherjee has resigned from the firm to join BMR Legal, reported Bar & Bench . CORRECTION: The earlier report erroneously stated that Mukherjee would join BMR. Mukherjee has clarified that “the statement that I have accepted an off...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised the promoters of Astec LifeSciences on selling 45 per cent of their stake in it to Godrej Agrovet which was advised by Trilegal. JSA Mumbai partner Vikram Raghani, senior associates Anand Lakra and Birbahadur Sachar and consultant Avinash Jethwani acted for Astec. Tr...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has finished its executive committee election, inducting three new members into the now-seven-strong committee, according to the firm’s press release.

Pramerica Mutual Fund has agreed to buy out Deutsche Mutual Fund’s India asset management business for around Rs 400 crore, reported Business Standard and others today, which would catapult Pramerica for 31st to 14th place in terms of Indian asset managers’ portfolio size, reported Mint in June. Pra...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised US-based media firm Viacom on its Rs 940 crore ($153m) buyout of Reliance subsidiary Shinano Retail’s stake in Network 18’s Prism TV. Shinano was advised by AZB & Partners. JSA partner Akshay Nagpal, senior associate Kaustubh George and associates Upasana Gupta ...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas acted as legal counsel to BNP Paribas in its Rs 2,000 to 2,200 crore acquisition of Sharekhan, with AZB & Partners acting for the sellers. J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai partners Somasekhar Sundaresan, Vikram Raghani and Jamshed Bhumgara acted for the management share...

![Janus: “The god of beginnings and transitions,[1] and thereby of gates, doors, doorways, passages and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.”](https://www.legallyindia.com/images/kianganz/qc4sogfd.jpg “Janus: “The god of beginnings and transitions,[1] and thereby of gates, doors, doorways, passages and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.”)J Sagar Associates’ (JSA) partnership will elect seven partners into its executive committee in the coming months, out of whom two will become joint managing partners in an election slated for October.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) funds formation partner Jay Gandhi and his team of five associates will join Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) in Mumbai under former JSA senior partner and SAM Mumbai Akshay Chudasama.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) and PRA Law won in the Delhi high court for luxury condom maker Reckitt Benckiser which will now not be subject to ceiling prices on its condoms fixed by the government. The Delhi high court has ruled that even though condoms fall within “essential medicines” under the Drugs...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Perkins Coie advised global e-commerce giant Amazon in buying for $40m - a 20 per cent stake - in bankbazaar.com-owner A&A Dukaan Financial Services, which was advised by Bangalore-based firm Themis Associates. JSA also advised Fidelity Growth Partners in buying a 2...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised travel met search website Ixigo�’s owner Le Travenues Technology and its promoters Aloke Bajpai and Rajnish Kumar on its fundraising from mobile phone maker Micromax Informatics, which was advised by Indus Law. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumbai-based corporate p...