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I-Nurture Education Solutions Private Limited, a higher educational services company, has entered into a joint venture agreement with Galileo Global Education France Sas, which is the largest higher education company in France and Europe.

News Corp-backed real estate portal PropTiger said on Tuesday that Mumbai-based Housing.com will merge with it in an all stock deal, and that it will receive $50 million in fresh funds from News Corp.’s REA Group Ltd and $5 million from SoftBank Group.

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested $10m in Hiveloop Technology, which provides a B2B e-commerce marketplace platform under the brand ‘Udaan’. The company is founded by three former top executives of Flipkart, namely Sujeet Kumar, who led WS Retail at Flipkart, Amod Malviya, ex-CTO of Flipkart, and Vaibhav Gupta, former Senior VP who was leading product management and finance functions at Flipkart.

“Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, acquired a significant minority stake in YuppTV for $50m. YuppTV is one of the world’s leading over-the-top (OTT) video platforms for South Asian content offering live TV, catch-up TV and movies on-demand in 14 languages across the globe,” reported Business Wire.

Nishith Desai Associates Mumbai acted for Tiger Global and DST Global, which invested $30m (Rs 200 crore) in a series C round in home rental company NestAway, which was advised by K Law.

Nishith Desai Associates has expanded its Palo Alto presence with the hire of Aysswarya Murthi, who had been promoted to erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas’ Mumbai partnership in 2012 before joining US firm Reed Smith’s Silicon Valley office in October 2015.

Khaitan & Co advised Indo Phyto Chemicals on the sale of 51 per cent stake in it to pharma company Sequent Scientific which was advised by Nishith Desai Associates (NDA). Khaitan Delhi partner Bharat Anand, senior associate Tanvi Kumar and associate Vrinda Agarwal acted for Indo. NDA Mumbai M&#...

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) advised Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) on its meter management joint venture with Tam Media Research which is itself a joint venture between Kantar Media Research and Nielsen. Kantar was advised by Platinum Partners and Nielsen was advised by J Sagar Associ...

Nishith Desai Associates advised Birla Corporation on its $706.7m (Rs 4800 crore) acquisition of Anil Ambani’s cement business – a Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) subsidiary which was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA). NDA Mumbai associates Karan Kalra and Abhinav Harlalka, and partners Rajesh Si...

Nishith Desai Associates advised global investment firm Goldman Sachs on its Rs 400 crore investment in India’s largest consumer-durables equipment maker Amber Enterprises. Amber was advised by Vaish Associates. Vaish Delhi partner Satwinder Singh and senior associate Varnika Sharma acted for Amber....

Nishith Desai Associates has opened an office in New York - its fourth office overseas and second in the US – hoping to tap the increased activity of private equity houses in that region of the US.

Wadia Ghandy advised car trading website CarTrade owned by MXC Solutions on its $120m (Rs 790 crore) acquisition of CarWale, another car trading website owned by Automotive Exchange, from its founder Mohit Singh and its existing shareholder Axel Springer. CarWale was advised by Nishith Desai Associa...

IndusLaw advised Olacabs on raising $500m (Rs 3,320 crore) from 15 investors, some of which were advised by Nishith Desai Associates (NDA), Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) and foreign law firms Goodwin Proctor, Gunderson Dettemer, Morrison & Foerster, Ropes & Gray and Fangda Partners.

AZB & Partners advised Singapore based infrastructure company Cube Highways & Infrastructure on its Rs 248 crores ($37.4m) buy of Madhucon Agra Jaipur Expressways (MAJEL) which was advised by Nishith Desai Associates (NDA). AZB partner Yashwant Mathur, senior associates Esha Pruthi and Amb...

Mega deal sees five law firms bring investment home.

Khaitan & Co and _Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom_ acted for clinical trial service provider Bioclinica in its aqcuisition of global pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs and IT services provider Synowledge. Synowledge was advised by Goodwin Procter and Nishith Desai Associates (NDA)....

AZB & Partners advised India’s largest doctor discovery platform Practo Technologies on its over $10m buy of smaller rival Qikwell Technologies India which was advised by Nishith Desai Associates (NDA). AZB Mumbai partners Ashwin Ramanathan and Nilanjhana Singh and senior associate Parthasarath...

TMT Law Practice advised Relevant E-Solutions in raising $15m from Tiger Global, India Quotient and Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal. Tiger Global was advised by Nishith Desai Associates and Gunderson Dettmer. TMT partner Kaushik Moitra with associate Aditya K Singh advised Relevant which runs fashi...

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) and Sullivan & Cromwell advised Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs on its $150m (Rs 900 crore) infusion in Piramal Realty which had less than a month ago received Rs 1800 crore from Warburg Pincus. Piramal was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM). NDA...