Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) advised the world’s largest palm oil maker, Singapore-based Wilmar International, in buying a controlling stake in Renuka Sugars for $200m (Rs 1,242 crore). Renuka Sugars was advised by Crawford Bayley while AZB & Partners advised the promoters the Murkumbi family...

Amarchand Mangaldas emerged as the large law firm with the highest ratio of female lawyers ranked by the 2014 Chambers and Partners lawyer directory, while J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Trilegal came lowest with as few as 6 per cent of senior female lawyers.

14 Indian law firm partners and senior associates will be named as “up and comers” and “associates to watch” in legal directory Chambers and Partners’ yet-to-be released Asia Pacific 2014 guide.

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi office is acting for exploration giant Cairn India, which is buying back up to 14.98% of its equity share capital for $930m (Rs 5,725 crore) from the open market through stock exchanges.

Deals round-up of more than a dozen recent instructions.

Deals round-up of more than a dozen recent instructions.

As year-end approaches and law firms send out a flood of press releases for the annual deals league tables, Legally India has wrapped up the most interesting ones in one tidy package.

Kirkland & Ellis with Khaitan & Co have acted for private equity firm Apax Partners in its $420m purchase of California-headquartered offshore software services provider GlobalLogic. Khaitan partners Haigreve Khaitan and Aakash Choubey acted for Apax, assisted by competition law partner Av...

Amarchand Mangaldas has reported the most M&A activity among Indian law firms this year, according to data provider mergermarket’s Q1-Q3 rankings.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai partner Murali Neelakantan has joined Indian pharmaceutical giant Cipla as its global general counsel (GC).

NLSIU Bangalore, Delhi University (DU), GLC Mumbai and ILS Pune have given India’s biggest law firms more than three times as many partners than most other younger law schools since 2009.

Corporate principal associate Ashish Razdan and banking and finance principal associate Kumar Saurabh Singh have been promoted.

Thomson Reuters, advised by Khaitan & Co, has bought Bangalore trading software company Omnesys, advised by Samvād Partners. AZB & Parters and Vaish Associates acted for minority investors. The buyer Thomson Reuters was advised by Khaitan & Co, with partner Rabindra Jhunjhunwala and a...

AZB & Partners, J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Khaitan & Co have advised on the Baring Private Equity Asia buy-out and open offer of IT and BPO firm Hexaware Technologies for a total of around Rs 2,745 crore ($440m). AZB Mumbai partners Abhijit Joshi and Essaji Vahanvati acted for Hexaware a...

Legasis Partners partner Sachin Mandlik has joined Khaitan & Co as a partner in dispute resolution in Mumbai.

Khaitan & Co former indirect tax executive director Manish Mishra joined Link Legal - India Law Services as a partner on Monday.

Desai & Diwanji advised Delhi-based Ozone Ayurvedics and its parent Ozone UK in selling off India’s second largest skin-care brand “Nomarks” to Bajaj Corp, which was advised by Khaitan & Co, for Rs 150 crore ($22.7m) according to the Economic Times . Desai & Diwanji Mumbai partner Vih...

AZB & Partners dropped off data provider Merger Market’s half-yearly (H1) M&A league table despite reporting 21 deals – the highest among India’s top ten law firms.

Amarchand is the fourth major Indian law firm to have made it (mostly) mandatory for fresher recruits to rotate between different departments for the first eighteen months. J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Khaitan & Co also swear by it; Trilegal was less enamoured. Is it the new standard or just a fad?

Soli vs political RTI ordinance : Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee said that the government’s proposal to bring an ordinance to keep political parties out of the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, is an abuse of constitutional power. “Ordinance should be brought in only in ...