Capita PLC sold the entire share capital of Capita SIMS (India) Private Limited (a member of the Capita group) to Tiger UK Bidco Limited, a newly formed company established by funds advised by Montagu Private Equity . This transaction forms part of the global sale of the Education Software Solutions...

It will surprise no one anymore that as Reliance’s 200-pound telecoms behemoth Jio has taken the third round of mega funding in as many weeks, two Indian law firms have been there every billable hour of the way: no doubt much welcome in these tough times. Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners sa...

Indian movie producer Eros International Plc is merging with privately-held U.S. filmmaker STX Entertainment in an all-stock deal that brings together Bollywood and Hollywood. The combined company, to be known as Eros STX Global Corp., will be publicly traded and have a valuation of more than $1 bil...

Blackstone already held a 50% stake in Indiabulls Real Estate, making this a quasi-joint venture.

Nalsar Hyderabad 2007 graduate Revathi Raghavan has joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in London from Allen & Overy, according to her Linked-in profile.

Vertafore, the leader in modern insurance technology, acquired VUE Software (VUE) in India and the US to complement its Sircon solutions and created the most powerful insurer distribution management platform in the industry, according to the company’s press release . Insurtech provider Vertafore has...

“Apax Funds invests $200 million in Fractal Analytics: The investment from Apax Funds values Fractal Analytics, a data analytics firm, at about $500 million,” reported Mint . Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas advised Fractal Analytics Private Limited, a provider of artificial intelligence and analytics so...

“Wipro has won its largest information technology (IT) outsourcing contract, valued at $1.6bn over 10 years from Alight Solutions, the former benefits administration and human-resources outsourcing business of Aon,” reported Mint.

Ex-Amarchand Mangaldas lawyer and NUJS Kolkata 2006 graduate Abhishek Kolay has joined Kirkland & Ellis in New York as a partner, making him one of the first (if not the first) alumnus from NUJS to make it to partnership at a top international law firm.

“Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd (IBREL) has executed definitive transaction documents with global private equity investor Blackstone Group LP to divest 50% stake in subsidiaries Indiabulls Properties Private Ltd and Indiabulls Real Estate Co. Pvt. Ltd at an aggregate enterprise value of $1.46bn or Rs9,5...

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas advised and acted as the legal counsel for Axis Bank and was led by the private equity group of their general corporate practice team for all the legal aspects of the transaction. The transaction team was led by executive chairman Shardul Shroff, Mumbai-based regional practice head Raghubir Menon (M&A and PE, General Corporate), partners Abhishek Guha, Yogesh Chande, and senior associates Ankit Kejriwal and Anwesha Haldar, associates Kanwardeep Kapany, Gaurav Malhotra and Keegan Pavrey.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has topped the mergermarket value league table of international law firms that advised on M&A deals in the record 2016 calendar year.

Kirkland & Ellis and Slaughter & May acted on the biggest Indian M&A transactions among 14 foreign law firms that each advised on more than $1bn worth of Indian M&A deals this quarter.

Prem Mohan, who had graduated in 2007 from NLSIU Bangalore, has been promoted to partner in Kirkland & Ellis London office in the financial services regulatory practice.

“Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communications Ltd (R-Com) has signed a definitive agreement to merge its wireless business with smaller rival Aircel Ltd to create India’s third largest telecom operator by users,” reported Mint.

Shearman & Sterling, DLA Piper, White & Case and Allen & Overy had the largest number of recorded Indian M&A deals in the first six months of 2016, according to data intelligence provider mergermarket, each with five or four transactions.

NLSIU Bangalore 2007 alumnus Aprajita Dhundia made partner at Kirkland & Ellis in London

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...

S&R Associates and Kirkland & Ellis advised the UK-based Kewill group and its backers Francisco Partners, in buying Hyderabad-based software solutions provider Four Soft for Rs 265 crore ($43.4m). Four Soft was advised by BMR Legal.

Exclusive: AZB & Partners and J Sagar Associates (JSA) have advised India’s sixth largest IT firm Patni Computer Systems that was bought by Apax Partners-backed iGate for $1.22bn, which drafted in Khaitan & Co and Kirkland & Ellis as legal advisers.

Lexygen and Linklaters advised a Carlyle Group-led consortium of the losing bidders, where Amarchand Mangaldas is understood to have provided the advice to the bid’s merchant banks.