Yogesh Bhattarai, who left AZB & Partners’ equity partnership in 2012 for a sabbatical, has joined Trilegal.

Trilegal competition head Rahul Singh has left to Oxford University for a PhD but will continue to work part time as of counsel.

Trilegal advised the Tata Group’s power utility Tata Power in buying AES Saurashtra wind farms from the US-based private power producer AES Corporation which was advised by Desai & Diwanji. Trilegal Delhi partner Charandeep Kaur with senior associates Ramakant Rai and Anuja Tiwari and associate...

Trilegal advised Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia, AZB & Partners Mumbai advised Alpha TC Holdings, and Wadia Ghandy advised the CVCI Group in picking up a minority stake in Bangalore-based microfinance institution Janalakshmi for, according to the Economic Times , Rs 350 crore ($55m). Janala...

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...

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) hired Vyas as Mumbai litigation associate partner.

AZB & Partners dropped off data provider Merger Market’s half-yearly (H1) M&A league table despite reporting 21 deals – the highest among India’s top ten law firms.

Amarchand is the fourth major Indian law firm to have made it (mostly) mandatory for fresher recruits to rotate between different departments for the first eighteen months. J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Khaitan & Co also swear by it; Trilegal was less enamoured. Is it the new standard or just a fad?

Trilegal did not make any new partners this year but promoted senior associates Upasana Rao and Nitish Nair to counsel in Delhi. There were no promotions to counsel in the Mumbai region.

AZB & Partners and DLA Piper advised Indian engineering design company Rolta in its $200m bond sale on the Singapore stock exchange. Trilegal and Davis Polk & Wardwell advised the joint lead managers Barclays, Citigroup, DBS Bank and Deutsche Bank. Trilegal partner Srinivas Parthasarathy w...

Finsec Law Advisors has hired Anil Choudhary from Trilegal as a senior associate to shore up its securities transactional practice. Choudhary graduated from Harvard Law School’s LLM programme in 2010, joined Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) in January 2011 and was at Trilegal between July 2012 and May...

Trilegal advised British multinational bank Standard Chartered in buying out US investment bank Morgan Stanley’s Indian private wealth management unit. Morgan Stanley was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas.

Trilegal corporate associate and partner in five-year-and-ten-plays-old theatre production group, goes behind the curtains of his balancing act.

Amarchand has emerged as the most aggressive Indian early recruiter hiring 36 fourth-year law students across 10 colleges.

25 Nalsarites accept jobs at six firms.

NUJS 4th year recruitment committee bags at least 20 jobs but keeps shtum.

NLSIU Bangalore placed 24 out of 80 fourth year students on 20 April 2013 including 11 pre-placement offers(PPOs). Two independent offers from McKinsey & Co were made in addition to those. A total of 21 ‘day zero’ campus offers to start work in 2014 came from law firms Luthra & Luthra (8 c...

AZB & Partners did the greatest number of deals (13) in the first quarter of this year, according to the mergermarket M&A deal rankings.

Majmudar & Partners and US law firm Kim Law Advisors advised San Francisco’s Burill & Company in its Rs 54 crore ($10m) primary and secondary investment in the Trilegal-advised Bangalore-based Strand Life Sciences, including buying out its lead investors WestBridge Capital and Ascent Capit...