Trilegal and Canadian law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt advised the largest Canadian contract research organisation (CRO) JSS Medical Research on its Rs 9.5 crore ($1.5m) buy of CRO Max Neeman Medical International which was advised by AZB & Partners.

Trilegal partner Charandeep Kaur, counsel Ramakant Rai and associate Jatin Vyas, and Osler Montreal-based managing partner Shahir Guindi and associate Geneviève Burdon acted for JSS

AZB Delhi partners Anil Kasturi and Niladri Maulik and associate Siddharth Khanna acted for Max.

MNMI, part of the Max India group which split three-way , provides clinical development services to small, mid-size and global pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies, according to VCCircle.