Wadia Ghandy partner Kunal Vajani, who has been heading its Delhi office, has started up an independent chambers to focus purely on disputes, with an eye to build a UK-style barristers chambers practice.

The wealth management unit of India’s Edelweiss Group have announced the acquisition of Religare Enterprises’s retail broking business for Rs 250 crores (approximately $39m) by way of slump sale, as reported by The Economic Times and Mint . The acquisition by Edelweiss Wealth Management will include...

Weather forecasting services provider Skymet Weather Services has closed a series C round of funding from the InsuResilience Investment Fund., reported The Economic Times . The amount of investment involved in the transaction remains undisclosed, though as per the report by The New Indian Express , ...

Realty Major DLF Limited has entered into an agreement to sell a stake of 33.34% in its rental arm, DLF Cyber City Developers Limited (DCCDL) to Reco Diamond Private Limited, an affiliate of the Singapore sovereign wealth fund, GIC Group, in a multi-stage transaction for an aggregate value of US$ 1.9 billion, as reported by VCCircle and Business Standard.

“Trade financing company Vayana Network, which recently split from parent company Vayana (VPL), has raised $4 Million (about Rs 26 crore) from venture capital firms IDG Ventures India and Jungle Ventures,” reported Indian CEO.

“After fighting for over three decades for a share in ancestral properties, three branches of the Singhania family told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they had amicably settled the dispute by honouring and implementing the decision of the arbitrator who had in 2008 divided the assets in three parts.

Wadia Ghandy Mumbai-based senior associate Vidya Venugopal has moved to Delhi to join the World Bank as South Asia legal counsel, as part of a team of four.

“IDFC Bank has signed a share purchase agreement with Grama Vidiyal Micro Finance (GVMFL) for acquisition of 100 percent equity share capital of GVMFL,” according to IDFC’s filing as reported by Money Control. AZB & Partners partner Srinath Dasari and senior associate Gautam Rego acted for IDFC.

Raksha Kothari left DSK Legal in January after having been a founding member 14 years ago, to take a few months off and practice independently before deciding her next move. She has now acted as an independent counsel for cement company Sanghi Industries, which saw an investment of Rs 265 crore by t...

Wadia Ghandy promoted five senior associates across Mumbai, Delhi and Pune to partner.

“)Wadia Ghandy has shut its office in Chennai as the firm’s partner heading the Chennai practice, Shona Malvi, is going independent

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...

Wadia Ghandy has promoted five of its lawyers to partner level in Mumbai growing its total number of salaried partners to 28. Senior associates Kingshuk Banerjee in disputes, Dhruv Khanna in private equity and aviation, Sanyantani Dutta in corporate, capital markets and private equityy and Nitesh Ra...

Rahul Dwarkadas, who had resigned from Wadia Ghandy’s partnership on 4 March, will be joining the Mumbai-based firm of ex-AZB & Partners CEO Abhijit Joshi, Veritas Legal.

J Sagar Associates advised Geraldton Finance, Real India Invest Aktiengesellschaft and the promoters of IT park owner Nirlon on selling 39.2 per cent equity in Nirlon to Singapore’s sovereign fund GIC. Amarchand Mangaldas and Wadia Ghandy advised GIC. JSA Mumbai partners Somasekhar Sundaresan, Vikra...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) acted for Piramal Enterprises which invested Rs 65 crores in the development of a residential-cum-commercial project of around 630,000 square feet on Bangalore’s Sarjapur Road, Bangalore by Krishna E Campus, which was advised by Wadia Ghandy. JSA Bangalore partners Vivek Cha...

Wadia Ghandy Bangalore partner Ankit Majmudar is set to leave the firm early next year.

Wadia Ghandy closed its Singapore office after three years of operations on the ground of the island nation, due to a lack of commercial viability.

Wadia Ghandy partner Vijay Sureka joined AZB & Partners as a senior associate in Mumbai on 1 October.