J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs in the sale of its 73 per cent stake in City View Bangalore Properties to a joint venture floated by Blackstone and realty player Embassy Group. Blackstone and Embassy were advised by Amarchand Mangaldas and Simpson Thacher & Bartl...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai salaried partner Vikrant Patwardhan has joined the world’s largest independent steel trader Stemcor as its general counsel India.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) tax chair Ashok Dhingra, partner Smita Singh, and partner-equivalent chartered accountant (CA) Sonia Gupta, have set up boutique tax advisory firm Ashok Dhingra Associates (ADA).

Some of the deals lawyers have been working on this month that we didn’t manage to cover separately.

Wadia Ghandy partner Gaurav Singhi, who was promoted in April 2014 , has joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) as a partner. Mumbai partner Akshay Chudasama confirmed that Singhi would join the firm as a non-equity retained partner. The news was first reported by Bar & Bench earlier today. Singhi, a ...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) acted for Swiss lock maker Kaba Holding on increasing its investment in its Indian joint venture with Dorset to 74 per cent. Luthra & Luthra partner Bobby Chandhoke advised the Indian shareholders in the JV, Dorset, while JSA partners Upendra Nath Sharma & Pallavi ...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Financial Technologies (India) (FTIL) on the Rs 459 crore ($76m) sale of its 15 per cent stake in Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) to Kotak Mahindra Bank which was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas. JSA partners Berjis Desai, Somasekhar Sundaresan and Vikram Ragh...

Allen & Overy (A&O) advised BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank, as joint lead managers and bookrunners, on ONGC Videsh’s issue of more than $2.2bn worth of bonds. J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised ONGC Videsh. A&O Hong Kong par...

A Mumbai court yesterday sentenced the convict in lawyer Pallavi Purakayastha’s murder to life imprisonment, reported the ANI . The 25-year-old in house counsel and ILS Pune grad was stabbed in the throat in her Mumbai flat in August 2012 by her apartment complex’ watchman. The convict – 22-year-old...

Indian Law Partners and Ashurst advised the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on investing Rs 630 million ($10.5m) in Takshasila Hospitals which was advised by JSA. ILP partners Piyoosh Gupta and Gaurav Wahie and associate Vaibhav Bhardwaj and Ashurst Tokyo partner Mark Davies, counsel...

HSA Advocates has hired Abeezar Faizullabhoy as the firm’s 14th partner, according to a press release from the firm. Faizullabhoy was an equity partner at J Sagar Associates (JSA) until 2013, when he left to join Chennai-based ultra-mega power project Aditya Resources as CEO . HSA has offices in Del...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Chennai-based industrial salt producer Archean Salt Holdings in borrowing Rs 135 crore ($22m) from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), which was advised by Luthra & Luthra. JSA Chennai partner Aarthi Sivanandh and senior associates Tamara Devanandan and Bhavana Eliza...

Indian law firms have taken a deeper interest in policy formulation in the last five years than they have before, however they are wary in a big way of being seen as “lobbyists”.

Answer: It depends (but nine is magic number)

The markets are picking up it looks like – here’s the round-up of what firms have been getting up to.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Bangalore partner Promod Nair has started an independent arbitration practice.

GNLU Gandhinagar, which has placed at least 13 fourth year students this year, refused to divulge figures for its 11 April Day Zero recruitment again.

NUJS Kolkata’s 2015 graduating batch has accepted 27 job offers across seven firms with a mix of 16 so-called Day Zero offers made after interviews on campus on April 16 and 11 pre-placement offers (PPOs) made after internships to students.

NLU Delhi’s third batch, that will graduate in 2015 has already placed 10 students with confirmed jobs after its Day Zero of recruitment on 4 April, with four offers subject to internships and three vacation placements with foreign firms.

J Sagar Associates has promoted 23 lawyers to senior associate level, with a huge majority - 13 - getting bumped up the ladder in Mumbai.