White & Case has continued expanding its India practice after the joining of Clifford Chance Singapore’s Rahul Guptan, with AZB & Partners Mumbai-based partner Sayak Maity to join.

E-commerce player Flipkart […] said it will acquire Cleartrip, a leading online travel and technology company. — Business Standard IndusLaw advised Cleartrip Private Limited led by a team of senior partner Srinivas Katta , partner Rashi Saraf , senior associate Stuti Agarwal , and associate Shreyas ...

Clifford Chance Singapore capital markets and India group partner Rahul Guptan is set to join White & Case, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.

The US based private equity firm The Carlyle Group has agreed to acquire 74% stake in SeQuent Scientific Limited, the largest pure-play animal healthcare company in India, for $210 million (Rs.1587 crore), company said on Friday. Carlyle will buy shares at a price of Rs.86 apiece. — The Economic Tim...

SAM bagged the mandate for Facebook and AZB for Reliance on India’s largest ever foreign-direct investment in a tech company, which values Reliance’s Jio Platform subsidiary at Rs 4.62 lakh crore (or nearly $66bn), with Mark Zuckerberg’s US technology giant buying itself a 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms Limited.

CA Lotus Investments, an investment arm of Carlyle group, sold 65.51 lakh shares of Metropolis Healthcare through a bulk deal on the BSE. The offer size is 13.06 per cent of the outstanding share capital of Metropolis. Currently, CA Lotus holds 71.79 lakh shares or 14.31 per cent stake in the compan...

NEW DELHI: SoftBank has invested about $231 million (Rs 1,645 crore) in Lenskart Solutions after months of negotiations with the eyewear solutions company. The Japanese group will back the Faridabad-based company, now valued at $1.5 billion from its second Vision Fund The financing round was first r...

White & Case London partner and illustrious NLSIU Bangalore alumnus Dipen Sabharwal has been bestowed the prestigious Queen’s Counsel (QC) tag by the bar of England & Wales.

US-headquartered legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider UnitedLex, which has significant operations in India and must have recruited at least hundreds of graduates from Indian law schools since its founding in 2006, has been sold in entirety to CVC Capital Partners, reported VCCircle . The deal am...

VPC GmbH has acquired 50% controlling stake in Encotec Energy (India) Pvt. Ltd for an approximate value of Rs. 14.43 crores (€2 million). Encotec offers operation management for power plants, supply of photovoltaic systems and trading of Chinese power plant spare parts.

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.

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.

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.

Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Baker & McKenzie are the highest profile foreign law firms operating in India, according to the latest analysis of foreign law firms’ India businesses.

White & Case has hired Linklaters managing associate Pradyumna Mysoor as a local partner in its Hong Kong office.

The Bar Council of India’s (BCI) appeal opposing entry of foreign law firms into India today inched forward in the Supreme Court, as the respondents finished filing their written submissions 32 months after the first hearing in the case.

Twenty months after the Supreme Court (SC) had given 10 weeks to complete serving notices on foreign law firms, the Bar Council of India (BCI) appeal against foreign law firms practicing in India, remains stuck at the service stage.

NLSIU Bangalore 2003 graduate Mukund Dhar was made up in White & Case’s 18-strong round of partnership promotions on Friday. London-based Dhar was named a partner in the firm’s global project finance practice, according to its press release , which added that he is dual qualified in India and E...

Amarchand Delhi hires NLSIU grad and MBA.

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