Link Legal India Law Services’ former chief executive officer (CEO) Jayanarayanan NR, who had left earlier this month to relocate to Mumbai, has joined IndusLaw as CEO according to authoritative sources.

Gurugram-based Super Highway Labs, which runs and owns bus aggregator platform Shuttl, has raised a part of its Series B funding of Rs 41 crore from a clutch of investors led by Proof.VC, according to Shuttl’s filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). — Yourstory Jerome Merchant + Partners advi...

Link Legal India Law Services chief executive officer (CEO) Jayanarayanan NR, who had joined the firm in February 2016 from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, has left the firm and will relocate to Mumbai.

Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) has hired Bhasin & Co lawyer Sanjay Gupta as a partner in its Delhi-based dispute resolution practice.

Media group Hindustan Media Ventures Limited (HMVL) has invested Rs 4 crore (around $572,392 at current exchange rates) in content venture Aleph Digital Solutions Private Limited, it said in a stock exchange filing on Friday. — VCCircle Aleph runs Pebble, which is a platform where journalists and fr...

Darwinbox, a cloud-based end-to-end HR management startup, on Thursday, announced that it had raised $15 million Series B investment led by Sequoia India. The round also saw participation from existing investors Endiya Partners, Lightspeed India Partners, and 3one4 Capital. — Yourstory Rajaram Legal...

Veteran journalist Vir Sanghvi has invested in product review startup Mishry.com. The firm is based out of Gurgaon and is a content destination that reviews products in the Cooking and Dining space… Apart from this, Mishry has also raised undisclosed seed investments from two fintech industry leader...

Regional language social networking platform ShareChat has completed a $100 million (about Rs 718 crore) equity financing round led by microblogging site Twitter, with participation from private equity firm TrustBridge Partners, the Bengaluru-headquartered company said… Twitter’s investment in Share...

Link Legal India Law Services has promoted Samantha Fernandes D’Souza as associate partner in its banking and finance team.

B2B logistics technology provider Freight Tiger has raised $8 million (around Rs 55 crore) in Series-A funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with participation from Dalmia Group’s Alsthom Industries and the Hero Group managing director’s Pawan Munjal Family Trust. — The Economic Times L...

Online pharmacy 1mg has closed a $70 million investment round led by Corisol Holdings, a European family office, with participation from the World Bank’s investment arm IFC, at a valuation of around $200 million. The Series-D round also saw South Korea’s Redwood Global and Korea Omega Healthcare fun...

Pratilipi, a platform that enables users to read, write and listen to stories in local languages, has raised Rs 105 crore, led by China-based Qiming Venture Partners. The financing round indicates bullishness of Chinese investors on the content startups. — The Economic Times Link Legal India Law Ser...

Wapcos Limited acquired the National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (“NPCC”), as aprt of the Government of India initiative to raise funds from strategic disinvestment through sale of government’s shareholding in CPSE’s, according to reports . Link Legal India Law Services advised Wapcos ...

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Link Legal India Law Services projects and project finance partner Shashwat Kumar as a partner in Delhi.

Sekura Energy Ltd, backed by Edelweiss Infrastructure Yield Plus (EIYP) fund, will acquire two operating power transmission assets from Essel Infraprojects Ltd- namely Darbhanga-Motihari Transmission Limited and NRSS XXXI (B) Transmission Limited. Sekura is also set to acquire Warora-Kurnool Transmi...

GMR Infrastructure said a consortium comprising the Tata Group, an affiliate of Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and Hong Kong-based SSG Capital Management would invest Rs 8,000 crore ($1.16 billion) in its airports unit. GMR will use the entire fund to bring down its debt to Rs 12,000 crore from...

Metro Bikes, a rental start-up for scooters and motorcycles, has raised $12.2 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital India and Accel Partners, which will help the start-up develop technologies and expand into newer markets. — Mint Link Legal India Law Services advised Wickedride ...

Kobe Steel has fully taken over L&T Kobelco Machinery (LTKM), which designs and manufactures machinery for producing car and construction equipment tires, including rubber mixers and twin screw roller head extruders. — Tiretechnologyinternational Link Legal India Law Services advised Larsen &#x...

Digital solutions firm Zensar Technologies said that it has entered into an agreement with Lorhan IT Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Tek, to divest its Australia, the Middle East and India-based businesses. This is in line with the company’s decision to focus on and invest in the core m...

Axilor backs health-tech startup floated by Housejoy co-founder. Axilor Ventures, the startup accelerator and seed fund led by Infosys co-founders Kris Gopalakrishnan and SD Shibulal, has made [an investment in MedOps] — VCCircle Link Legal India Law Services advised MedOps Technology Private Limite...