NLIU Bhopal has placed 25 of its 2017-graduating students on its Day Zero of recruitments held between 1 and 3 April 2016, with a mix of large law firms and two corporates.

Khaitan & Co advised US procurement intelligence and analytics firm Beroe’s Indian arm on raising $10m from private equity firm Access Asset Managers which was advised by Platinum Partners. Khaitan associate partner Vineet Shingal, senior associate Kinshuk Jhunjhunwala and associate Shreya Dua ...

Aninda Pal, who had joined Juris Corp in November 2015, has left and will join HSA Advocates.

Khaitan & Co advised drug major Cipla on raising funds in its arm Cipla Health, from FIL Capital Investments which was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Khaitan partners Haigreve Khaitan, Bhavik Narsana, Kartick Maheshwari, Avaantika Kakkar, Adheesh Nargolkar and Sharad Vaid, associate part...

Khaitan & Co projects principal associate Rahul Arora and counsel Megha Arora will be joining HSA Advocates as partners, with Khaitan partner Amitabh Sharma to become the new HSA managing partner, as reported by Legally India on Tuesday.

Khaitan & Co energy, infrastructure and corporate partner Amitabh Sharma has resigned and will join HSA Advocates as its managing partner, as HSA founder and managing partner Hemant Sahai is seeking to institutionalise the firm.

Both sides of the now divided Amarchand Mangaldas family empire have considerably increased their recruitments for 2017 from top law schools, many top firms have filled up their quota from recruits from top law schools already.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) advised Future Group on its acquisition of online furniture retail store FabFurnish which is operated by Bluerock eServices. Bluerock was advised by Khaitan & Co. SAM Mumbai partner Shuva Mandal, Delhi partner Arvind Sharma, principal associate Janani Sekhar an...

Khaitan & Co advised VSK Holdings and its promoters Vikram Kirloskar and Geetanjali Kirloskar on selling their stake in Takshashila Hospitals to existing joint venture partners Toyota Tsusho Corporation Japan and Secom Medical System Singapore, which were advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA). Kh...

Trilegal advised online entertainment content aggregator Hungama Digital Media Entertainment on its fundraising round which was led by smart device maker Xiaomi Singapore advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. The round also included infusions from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners which w...

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...

NLSIU Bangalore’s 2017-graduating batch placed 33 out of 53 participating recruitment coordination committee (RCC) members, out of a total batch of 81, on 2 April.

Khaitan & Co has promoted 20 lawyers to partner.

Khaitan & Co and Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira advised Spain-based Rinder on its Euro 20 million (Rs 147 crore) acquisition by Indian auto parts maker Minda Industries which was advised by BMR Legal. Khaitan Mumbai partners Rabindra Jhunjhunwala and Bijal Ajinkya, associate partner Surbhi Kejr...

Trilegal and Shearman & Sterling advised French firm Engie on the sale of its entire 89.11 per cent stake in Meenakshi Energy to India Power Corporation which was advised by Khaitan & Co. Trilegal Delhi partners Yogesh Singh and Neeraj Menon, counsel Ravi Mahton and senior associates Amar ...

Khaitan & Co advised Indo Phyto Chemicals on the sale of 51 per cent stake in it to pharma company Sequent Scientific which was advised by Nishith Desai Associates (NDA). Khaitan Delhi partner Bharat Anand, senior associate Tanvi Kumar and associate Vrinda Agarwal acted for Indo. NDA Mumbai M&#...

Khaitan & Co advised Reliance Communications on gaining Competition Commission of India (CCI) approval for its acquisition of Russian conglomerate Sistema’s Indian telecom unit Sistema Shyam Teleservices which was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Baker & McKenzie. Khaitan Mumbai par...

AZB & Partners has poached Luthra & Luthra M&A and corporate Delhi partner Aparna Mittal

Khaitan & Co advised Mumbai-based real estate portal Housing.com $14.7m (Rs 100 crore) fundraising from Softbank which was advised by AZB & Partners. Khaitan Mumbai senior partner Haigreve Khaitan, associate partner Vineet Singhal and senior associate Namrata Mehta acted for Housing. AZB B...

Kochhar & Co has hired Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) partner Rahul Ray as a senior partner, while Ray’s team member Vikram Bajaj joined as a joint partner.