Allen & Overy’s Hong Kong-based India group lawyer Amit Singh, who had been promoted to A&O’s partnership in 2014, has joined Linklaters in Singapore as a partner, according to a Linklaters press release yesterday.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) Mumbai-based tax partner Ranjeet Mahtani is joining Dhruva Advisors as a partner.

AZB & Partners Mumbai will hire former State Bank of India (SBI) chairwoman Arundhati Bhattacharya as a senior consultant, we reliably understand.

LightSaber Food Ventures Pvt. Ltd, which sells healthy foods under the Snackible brand online and offline, has received early stage investments from the Mumbai Angels and early-stage investor / equity crowd funding platform 1Crowd for an undisclosed amount, according to VCCircle . Sahai & Co pa...

International private equity firm Advent International bought a controlling stake in Manjushree Technopack, India’s largest PET manufacturer, from its existing shareholders including Kedaara Capital and promoters for around Rs 2,400 crores, according to reports . Khaitan & Co advised Advent Int...

Reliance Industries is buying 66% of Den Networks via a primary investment via preferential issue of Rs 2,045 crore and a secondary purchase of Rs 245 crore from the company’s promoters, according to reports . Link Legal India Law Services acted for Den Networks and its promoters, led by partner Anu...

M ukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, for its telecoms upstart giant Jio, has agreed to buy a majority 51.3% stake in Hathway Cable & Datacom for Rs 2,940 crore through a preferential issue and an open offer to minority shareholders in Hathway subsidiary GTPL Hathway, according to reports . Cyr...

The Adani Group’s senior vice president legal, Badrinath Durvasula, who was heading the legal function’s M&A, contracting, litigation and arbitration vertical, has joined Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) as vice president and general counsel (GC).

Nihal Kothari, executive director in Khaitan & Co’s indirect tax team in Mumbai, passed away yesterday.

Khaitan & Co principal associate and IP Delhi 2008 alumnus Abhishek Sanyal has joined Economic Laws Practice (ELP) as associate partner in Delhi.

French outsourcing firm Teleperformance has bought business process solutions company Intelenet for $1bn from Blackstone, in a transaction that had been announced in June, according to reports . Platinum Partners acted as Indian counsel for Mumbai-headquartered Intelenet , which had been founded in ...

Karanjawala & Co has filed a criminal defamation complaint for parliamentarian MJ Akbar today against a female journalist who had alleged in Tweets on 8 October that she had been sexually harassed by him while he was her boss and a senior editor.

“Origo Commodities has raised ?80 crore from impact investors Oikocredit, Caspian SME Impact Fund IV, and Triodos Investment Management through its Hivos-Triodos Fund,” according to the Hindu BusinessLine . The 2010-founded company provides “agriculture supply chain solutions and financing for all p...

“Mamuni Das Logistics start-up GoBOLT has secured funding of ₹40 crore from Aavishkaar-Intellecap Group’s Aavishkaar Bharat Fund,” reported The Hindu BusinessLine about the Series B fund raising from the AIF. J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Camions Logistics Solutions Private Limited (a.k.a. GoBOLT...

“Private equity firm True North has acquired a 75% stake in Ban Labs Pvt. Ltd, the owner of the Sesa Hair Oil brand, for about Rs 700 crore, said a person familiar with the matter,” Mint . J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised the promoters of Ban Labs Private Limited (BLPL), led by partner Sidharrth Sha...

Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners-backed Superion, has taken over US-based Aptean and its Indian subsidiaries, a company working in public sector and health-care space, according to Bloomberg . AZB & Partners advised Bain Capital led by partners Ashwath Rau and Anu Tiwari , senior associat...

“Fonterra, the world’s biggest dairy exporter has entered into an equal joint venture with Future Group to launch dairy products in India,” reported the ET . AZB & Partners advised Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited led by partner Ashwath Rau , partner Aditya Singh Chandel on tax, and senior a...

“Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, a part of Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Holdings, is gearing up to increase its equity interest in the city-based Sanmar Chemicals Group to 43% from the existing 30%,” reported The Hindu . AZB & Partners advised Fairfax India led by partner Roxan...

“The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to invest $10 million (Rs 68.7 crore) in DCDC Health Services Pvt. Ltd, which operates dialysis centres under the brand Deep Chand Dialysis Centre,” reported VCCircle . AZB & Partners advised Asian Development Bank (ADB) led by partners Gautam Saha a...

Ananya Birla is in advanced negotiations to acquire Micro Housing Finance Corp, which provides home loans to urban households with lower income, for around Rs 300 crore, reported ET and according to AZB’s press release.