Tatva Legal advised the Bangalore Elevated Tollway and NCC Infrastructure Holdings on the Rs 750 crore sale of stake in the tollway to India Infrastructure Fund II which was advised by Trilegal. Tatva Hyderabad partner Ekta Bahl and manager Pratyush Singh acted for the Tollway and NCC Trilegal Delhi...

Samvad Partners advised Aasaanjobs and its existing investors Inventus Capital Partners Fund II, IDG Ventures India Fund II and Pandara Trust Scheme I on its $5m fundraising from Aspada Investment Company which was advised by Tatva Legal, and from the existing investors. Samvad Mumbai partner Apurva...

Tatva Legal advised the Western UP Tollway and stakeholders in it, NCC and Gayatri Infra Ventures, on their Rs 575 crore ($85m) sale of the tollway to Cube Highways which was advised by Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas. Tatva Hyderabad partner Ekta Bahl and manager Pratyush Singh acted for NCC which held...

IndusLaw advised IFMR Holdings on its $25m (Rs 162.5 crore) fundraising from Accion Africa-Asia Investment Company which was advised by Tatva Legal, Leapfrog Financial Inclusion India (II) which was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and impact investment fund Lok Capital which was advised in hous...

Rajani Singhania & Partners advised surgical sutures maker Stericat Gut Strings on the acquisition of a majority stake in it by French firm Groupe Peters Surgical which was advised by Tatva Legal. Rajani managing partner Prem Rajani, partner Poorvi Sanjanwala and associates Nishtha Mehta and Ka...

Khaitan & Co advised BMM Cements and its promoters on their Rs 560 crore ($90m) buy of Sagar Cements, which was advised by Tatva Legal. Khaitan Bangalore partner Ganesh Prasad acted for BMM Cements. Tatva Hyderabad partners Shailendra Komatreddy and Rajeev Reddy acted for Sagar Cements. The dea...

Tatva Legal advised US-based technology company Brillio’s subsidiary Brillio Technology in buying data analytics start up Ashley Marketelligent, which was advised by Samvad Partners. Tatva partners NK Dilip and Raghunath Anathapur and senior associate Rashmi Talukdar acted for Brillio. Samvad partne...

Tatva Legal advised Hyderabad-based IT company Cyient in buying a 51 per cent stake in data analytics start-up Invati Insights, which was advised by Tempus Law Associates in Hyderabad. Tatva Legal partner Rajeev Reddy and associate Shivacharan Reddy acted for Cyient. Tempus partner P Raviprasad and ...

I&S Associates co-founder Anuradha Iyer joined Tatva Legal as a partner in Mumbai, in the firm’s corporate practice, while the firm promoted three managers to partnership, reported legal website Bar & Bench . Iyer had set up I&S with Bakhtiar Sunavala in 2006 after her nine year stint...

Litigation, corporate, M&A, capital markets and private equity deals in brief from a cross-section of India’s top law firms.

Amarchand Mangaldas advised private equity major KKR on its Rs 1,300 crore ($200m) investment into pharma products company Gland Pharma, advised by AZB & Partners, with existing investors represented by Wadia Ghandy and Tatva Legal. Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff and Bangalore c...

Tatva Legal advised Bangalore-based post natal clinic Cloudnine in raising Rs 100 crore ($16m) from Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners. Sequoia was advised by Luthra & Luthra. Tatva Bangalore partner Manav Nagaraj and senior associate Bhargava KS acted for Cloudnine, which is owned by Kids Cli...

Tatva Legal advised Xander Finance in investing Rs 200 crore ($33m) in Gurgaon-based realty company Orris, which was advised by DSK Legal. Tatva Delhi partner Simran Singh and managers Neha Chhabra and Seher Ali acted for Xander, which structured its investment as a senior secured non-convertible de...

Tatva Legal advised India’s largest real estate developer DLF in selling its stake in Star Alubuild to Japan’s Lixil Corp, which was advised by Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA). Tatva Delhi partner Simran Singh, manager Neha Chhabra and senior associate Natasha Tuli acted for DLF which, accord...

Tatva Legal advised the ASK Group’s joint venture fund ASK Pravi in investing Rs 60 crore ($9.8m) in Hyderabad-based Omni hospitals, which was advised by Trilegal. Tatva Bangalore partner Manav Nagaraj, Hyderabad partner Rajeev Reddy, senior associates Pratyush Singh and Bhargava KS and associate Kr...

AZB & Partners came out on top of a 2013 first-half-year league table released by corporate analytics company Venture Intelligence, recording 19 deals. Induslaw and Samvad Partners – previously known as Narasappa Doraswamy & Raja – and Tatva Legal recorded eight deals each in the rankings....

Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Tatva Legal Hyderabad partner Rahul Sarella in the city, replacing Anshuman Jaiswal who is moving to Mumbai.

Tatva Legal advised micro-financier Grameen Financial Services (GFSPL), which received Rs 37.5 crore ($6.8m) of funding from US-based Creation Investments that was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA). Tatva Legal Bangalore senior associate Bhargava KS and manager Raghunath Ananthapur with assistance...

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Exclusive: Former Tatva Legal Bangalore co-founding partner Manoj Menon has joined Dua Associates as an equity partner in Bangalore to head the firm’s private equity and M&A practice, three years after he left as a salaried partner at the firm to Tatva.

Amarchand Mangaldas acts on a hoard of financings, while Luthra & Luthra sticks to the markets. Also in this deal round-up: JSA, Crawford, Tatva, AZB, Kochhar, Desai & Diwanji, Trilegal, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Jones Day, Allen & Overy, Milbank, and other foreign firms..