Deal credit given in RBL QIP IndusLaw’s new capital markets team has completed its first deal with deal credit in the prospectus, in the RBL Bank Limited qualified institutional placement ( QIP ), together with Khaitan & Co, Norton Rose Fulbright and L&L Partners. The QIP had raised Rs 2,2...

Ugam will join Merkle, a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency and part of Dentsu Aegis Network. With more than 1,800 employees in India, the United States, and Australia, Ugam represents one of the largest transactions in Merkle’s history. — The Economic Times...

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.

AZB & Partners, Norton Rose Fulbright and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy advised the joint lead managers the notes trustee on Delhi International Airport’s (DIAL) $288.75m issue of notes, on which DIAL was advised by Link Legal India Law Services and Davis Polk & Wardwell. AZB partne...

India’s largest wind turbine supplier Suzlon Energy has restructured four series of convertible bonds, involving the existing bonds being substituted by $547m of new step-up convertible bonds due in 2019, pursuant to a consent solicitation and voluntary substitution, reported Mint . Amarchand Mangal...

Norton Rose disputes of counsel Sherina Petit has been promoted to partnership at Norton Rose’s London office.

Vodafone International Holdings BV initiates arbitration under India-Netherlands BIT by serving notice against Finance Bill 2012 proposals on PM, FM law minister and telecoms minister [ Business Line ] Mamata Bannerjee causes West Bengal state CID to debut in IP address tracking, following getting h...

AZB & Partners and Norton Rose’s African merger partner have advised India’s Essar Group on its majority stake take-over of Zimbabwe’s state-owned steel unit Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO) for $750m.

Norton Rose has failed to secure a work permit for one of its future trainees and has had to turn away a handful of Indian interns as the legal sector continues to grapple with the UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) points-based work permit system.

Norton Rose has advised Australian miner Linc on its sale a $3bn coal tenement in Queensland to a subsidiary of the Adani Group, which was advised by Australian firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

Start-up firm Axon Partners LLP has advised Shiv-Vani Oil & Gas Exploration Services on its $75m convertible bond issue with Norton Rose’s Singapore office getting into the capital markets game by advising the deal’s London underwriters Jefferies International.

Bharucha & Partners with Norton Rose and Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) with best friend Linklaters are advising HSBC on its takeover of the Indian retail and commercial banking business of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for a premium of Rs 444 crore ($95m) over the net asset value of the business.