In what will possibly have been its last quarter of existing as a single firm, Amarchand Mangaldas again acted on the most valuable M&A deals though AZB & Partners emerged as the firm with the largest number of recorded transactions.

Khaitan & Co associate partner Deepto Roy will join the firm to be started by Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Shardul Shroff in Mumbai.

Khaitan & Co associate partners Iqbal Khan in Mumbai and Harsh Kumar in Delhi have been poached by Amarchand Mangaldas co-managing partners Shardul and Cyril Shroff respectively, who are setting up offices in each others’ territories.

Khaitan & Company advised Snapdeal on India’s biggest acquisition in the e-commerce space yet – the $450m (Rs 2,800 crore) buy of mobile commerce platform Freecharge which was advised by AZB & Partners, reported Bar & Bench . Khaitan Bangalore Partner Abhilekh Verma acted for Snapdeal...

GNLU Gandhinagar has already placed a total of 24 students on its Day Zero held yesterday, out of a batch of 155, of whom 115 took part in the recruitment process.

Khaitan & Co has increased the base remuneration paid to freshers from Rs 13.2 lakh per year (as revised in 2014) to Rs 14.4 lakh per year plus an annual bonus of Rs 1.8 lakh.

Khaitan & Co has become “the first Indian law firm to reach the milestone of 100 partners”, according to a press release from the firm.

Advocate Deepak Khosla has filed a writ in the Calcutta high court to get Khaitan & Co to drop “& Co” from its name and for the high court to dismiss 20 years of pending and disposed of cases in which the firm acted.

Khaitan & Co has cut down its working week to Monday to Friday, while increasing the daily working hours by one hour from 1 March.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai-based partner Haigreve Khaitan has said that the family’s Swiss HSBC Bank account was set up as a way of legally and transparently diversifying their investments abroad but was closed after only a few years.

Khaitan & Co consultant Abhishek Awasthi, who had joined in August 2014 from SRGR Law Offices where he was a partner, has joined AZB & Partners in Noida as a senior associate to expand its real estate team. AZB Delhi managing partner Ajay Bahl commented that the firm was “very pleased” wit...

Khaitan & Co, instructing senior advocate Rajiv Nayar, has been representing US-based cab booking app Uber, which today withdrew its plea filed in the Delhi high court against the ban imposed on it by the Delhi government. Khaitan Bangalore partner Ganesh Prasad, Delhi partners Ajay Bhargava an...

Former Khaitan & Co associate Yawar Dilawar Mir became the youngest candidate to win the Kashmir state assembly elections in December, reported the Tribune India . Mir had filed his nomination papers from the Rafiabad constituency on 20 November, reported Greater Kashmir , after his father – Pe...

Khaitan & Co advised Shree Cement in its $58.4m acquisition of Jaiprakash Associates’ Jaypee Grinding Unit. Jaiprakash was advised by Vaish Associates. Khaitan Delhi competition partner Manas Kumar Chaudhuri and principal associate Trivikram Khaitan acted for Shree. Vaish Delhi partner Martand ...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group on its $32.8m buy of a 54.8 per cent stake in Chennai-based publishing and technical services company Newgen Knowledge Works, which was advised by Universal Legal. JSA Chennai partner Aarthi Sivanandh and senior asso...

Khaitan & Co advised BMM Cements and its promoters on their Rs 560 crore ($90m) buy of Sagar Cements, which was advised by Tatva Legal. Khaitan Bangalore partner Ganesh Prasad acted for BMM Cements. Tatva Hyderabad partners Shailendra Komatreddy and Rajeev Reddy acted for Sagar Cements. The dea...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) and AZB & Partners advised the promoters of Curatio Health Care on the Rs 95 crore sale of 33.36 per cent of its stake to Sequoia, which was advised by Khaitan & Co and Themis Law Associates. JSA Chennai partner Aarthi Sivanandh, senior associate Tamara Devanandan ...

Luthra & Luthra and Clifford Chance advised CLSA India, Citigroup Global Markets India, Credit Suisse Securities (India), ICICI Securities, Kotak Mahindra Capital Company and IDFC Securities as joint book running lead managers on CESC’s $80m qualified institutional placement (QIP) of 7.6m share...

Iqbal Khan Khaitan & Co has promoted M&A and private equity principal associate Iqbal Khan to associate partner level in Mumbai. Khan holds a JD from Columbia Law School and an LLB from the London School of Economics (LSE), having joined Khaitan in 2013 after working several years in New Y...

Amarchand Mangaldas partner Abhimanyu Bhattacharya, who resigned in July, has now joined Khaitan & Co as expected and as first reported by Legally India at the time.