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Wadia Ghandy

Wadia Ghandy & Co is a law firm with its headquarters in Mumbai.
18 September 2014

Hunting in packsWadia Ghandy has created a joint managing partner post, which managing partner Ashish Ahuja will share with executive committee partner Dhawal Mehta.

29 April 2014

Wadia Ghandy has promoted eight of its lawyers in Mumbai to partnership, including one 2008 NLIU Bhopal graduate and a 2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate.

17 February 2014

Stars14 Indian law firm partners and senior associates will be named as “up and comers” and “associates to watch” in legal directory Chambers and Partners’ yet-to-be released Asia Pacific 2014 guide.

03 February 2014

image Deals round-up of more than a dozen recent instructions.

13 January 2014

The four firms advised on the National Stock Exchange’s acquisition of Computer Age Management Services, which is valued at up to Rs 1,500 crore.

30 December 2013

Anand ShahWadia Ghandy partner Anand Shah, with his team of four associates, will join AZB & Partners in the New Year as a senior associate on partnership track.

09 December 2013

BIBA FashionAZB & Partners advised private equity (PE) firm Warburg Pincus as Wadia Ghandy advised PE firm Faering Capital in investing Rs 300 crore ($49m) in ladies ethnic wear maker Biba Apparels which was advised by OP Khaitan & Co.

19 August 2013

Universal Legal advised Andhra Pradesh-based Rainbow Hospitals, in which the UK-government owned CDC and private equity investor Abraaj Group invested Rs 100 crore ($16m). Wadia Ghandy advised the CDC and Abraaj Group.

Universal Legal Chennai-based partner Kavitha Vijay and senior associate Sameena Chatrapathy acted for the 14-year old paediatric and maternity healthcare business in AP, which currently has 450 beds but will expand after this business.

Wadia Ghandy Bangalore partner Ankit Majumdar and senior associate Anubhav Agarwal acted for the investors. This was CDC’s first direct equity investment and it intends to invest $1bn in India in the financial services sector, healthcare, renewable energy, and consumer-related businesses, according to the ET.

27 June 2013

Vaish Associates advised pre-school network Brainworks Learning Systems and its investor Kusumbala Investments in selling out for Rs 5 crore ($824,810) to pre-school network Tree House Education & Accessories. Tree House was advised by Wadia Ghandy.

Vaish Associates Mumbai corporate and banking partner Sandhya Iyer with senior associate Yatin Narang and associate Ishita Roy acted for Brainworks which, according to Business Standard, has 13 self-operated and 51 franchisee centres all over India.

Wadia Ghandy Ahmedabad partner Tanvish Bhatt with senior associate Shreya Desai acted for Tree House which will now have 450 centres across India, reported the paper.

21 May 2013

Baring Private Equity Asia is set to take a minority stake in cement maker Lafarge India for $265m (Rs 1400 crore), with three domestic firms and two foreign law firms advising on the deal.

Lafarge was represented domestically by AZB & Partners on law and BMR & Associates on tax issues, with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton advising on non-Indian laws. AZB fielded Mumbai partner Essaji Vahanvati, BMR led with partner Kalpesh Desai. Clearys’ team consisted of Paris partner Pierre-Yves Chabert and associate Charles Masson.

Baring drafted in Wadia Ghandy Bangalore partner Ankit Majmudar and Allen & Overy (A&O) Paris partner Frederic Jungels.

Baring will subscribe to 200 million Euros of shares in a Lafarge subsidiary, giving the private equity house a 14 per cent stake, according to a press release from Cleary. The deal is slated as the largest in the private equity space in India so far this year, according to the WSJ.

19 March 2013

Recent deal & case highlights: The Bombay high court ordered the producer of Bollywood film Knockout to pay Rs 1.5 crore ($275,760) for copyright infringement of 20th Century Fox’s Hollywood movie Phonebooth, represented by Neolegal Associates. Plus Khaitan, Wadia Ghandy, Dhir & Dhir and more...

12 March 2013

Wadia Ghandy senior partner Djena Sunavala, who started her career at the firm more than 23 years ago, will exit from the firm in the end of March, according to legal website Bar & Bench.

She practiced corporate and commercial laws with a special focus on M&A, joint ventures and real estate transactions, but did not say what she would do after her resignation.

Wadia Ghandy partner Ashish Ahuja told Legally India: "We definitely wish her all the best in her endeavours. We will all miss her."