Amarchand Mangaldas maintained its top spot in intelligence provider mergermarket’s M&A league rankings this quarter.

MNK Law Offices M&A and private equity partner Nivedita Tiwari, who joined one year ago from Luthra & Luthra, has joined Platinum Partners in Delhi, according to an authoritative source.

Some of the deals lawyers have been working on this month that we didn’t manage to cover separately.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) acted for Swiss lock maker Kaba Holding on increasing its investment in its Indian joint venture with Dorset to 74 per cent. Luthra & Luthra partner Bobby Chandhoke advised the Indian shareholders in the JV, Dorset, while JSA partners Upendra Nath Sharma & Pallavi ...

Madhurima Mukherjee, who had left Luthra & Luthra a year ago, has joined AZB & Partners in Delhi as a capital markets partner, according to several authoritative sources.

Khaitan & Co Delhi has advised cinema giant and long-standing client Inox on its Rs 182 crore complete acquisition of Satyam Cineplexes, which drafted in Luthra & Luthra.

Luthra & Luthra has promoted managing associates Anirban Bhattacharya and Lokesh Shah to its partnership in Delhi and Mumbai respectively, according to Bar & Bench . Bhattacharya, specialising in white collar crime, company law, litigation and arbitration, had joined the firm in 2006 from ...

Mergermarket Q1 M&A value leader AZB & Partners slipped to seventh spot in 2014’s half-yearly rankings, while Q1 ninth-ranked Amarchand made up the lag to top spot.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Chennai-based industrial salt producer Archean Salt Holdings in borrowing Rs 135 crore ($22m) from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), which was advised by Luthra & Luthra. JSA Chennai partner Aarthi Sivanandh and senior associates Tamara Devanandan and Bhavana Eliza...

Amarchand Mangaldas and Linklaters advised India’s fourth largest private bank Yes Bank in raising Rs 2,942 crore ($500m) through a qualified institutional placement (QIP). Amarchand Mumbai capital markets partners Yash Ashar and Abhimanyu Bhattacharya and Linklaters Singapore managing associate Pal...

IndusLaw partner Avimukt Dar with associates Aakriti Shakdher and Kriti Tannan acted for AM Marketplaces, which runs “social shopping platform” LimeRoad.com and received $15m in Series B funding from Tiger Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Matrix Partners VCCircle . Luthra & Luthra partne...

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The markets are picking up it looks like – here’s the round-up of what firms have been getting up to.

The Madras high court ordered Nokia to deposit Rs 240 crore as a deposit against the tax department’s claim of Rs 2,400 crore against the Finnish mobile phone maker. Its sales from a Chennai factory are subject to a tax demand, which it claims is without merit, and that it won’t be able to make the ...

NUJS Kolkata’s 2015 graduating batch has accepted 27 job offers across seven firms with a mix of 16 so-called Day Zero offers made after interviews on campus on April 16 and 11 pre-placement offers (PPOs) made after internships to students.

Traditional NLU Jodhpur recruiters Amarchand Mangaldas, Luthra & Luthra and Trilegal hit campus again on 2 April, in addition to Khaitan & Co, to make 12 job offers to the class graduating in 2015.

Homegrown Luthra & Luthra Mumbai partner Shishir Jose Vayttaden has resigned from the firm.

AZB, Trilegal and Luthra had the biggest reported deals in the first quarter of the year, which was a bit of a let down compared to the first quarter of 2014 but is looking up.

Clasis Law, the best friend law firm of UK-international firm Clyde & Co, has hired Ashwin Sapra to head up its intellectual property (IP) and healthcare practice.

Sun Pharma bought debt-ridden pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy for $4bn from Daiichi Sankyo.