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.

Weil Gotshal & Manges associate Nitin Konchady, who is a 2006 graduate of NLSIU Bangalore, has been promoted to partner in the London banking department’s Europe-focused high yield debt practice area in a partnership promotion round of 13, according to the firm’s press release.

Shearman & Sterling, DLA Piper, White & Case and Allen & Overy had the largest number of recorded Indian M&A deals in the first six months of 2016, according to data intelligence provider mergermarket, each with five or four transactions.

Khaitan & Co and Weil Gotshal & Manges advised UK-based Private Equity (PE) fund Advent International Corporation in its Rs 552 crore ($105m) purchase of equity in Hyderabad-based hospital Quality Care India which was advised by Wadia Ghandy. Khaitan & Co corporate partners Haigreve K...