Bangalore-based disputes and conflict avoidance boutique G-Droit Advocates, founded by NLU Jodhpur alumnus Gautamaditya, has added former partner of Lawcept Partners, Aravind Mokkapati, as its first non-founder equity partner to expand the firm’s practice into corporate.

Pramod Rao, the general counsel (GC) of Citibank India since 2013, will be re-joining the ICICI fold as ICICI Group GC, returning to the banking giant at which he had started his career.

Unlike many other large firms that have struggled to find good business in Hyderabad - Trilegal closed its office in January and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas only has a skeleton presence remaining there, Tatva has doubled down on the state following the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana bifurcation.

“Online travel agency Cleartrip has acquired Saudi Arabian travel start-up Flyin with the deal size pegged at $60-70m by sources close to the development,” reported Mint.

Dua Associates corporate and private equity partner Himanshu Narayan is to join Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas with his team-member partner Amarta Roy, Bar & Bench has first reported.

Wadia Ghandy homegrown partner Swapnil Khatri has joined IndusLaw as partner in Mumbai in its disputes practice.

HCL Infosystems general counsel Rajeev Choubey has joined cement giant LafargeHolcim’s Indian unit ACC Cement as general counsel yesterday.

Bhubaneshwar-based microfinance lender, Annapurna Finance has raised Rs 155 crores ($23m) from Oman India Joint Investment Fund II, a mid-market private equity firm backed by Oman’s State General Reserve Fund and State Bank of India, as reported by VC Circle and Mint . The current fund-raise marked ...

Social e-commerce platform, Meesho has raised around Rs 77 crores ($11.5m) in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital along with existing investors SAIF Partners, Y Combinator and Venture Highway, as reported by The Economic Times and Mint . With the recent fund infusion, Bangalore-based re-...

Chicago-based private equity firm Madison Deaborn Partners have entered into an agreement to acquire global relocation and moving services provider SIRVA for an estimated value of over $10m, as reported by PR Newswire . AZB & Partners acted as the Indian legal counsel to Madison Dearborn Partne...

Consumer durables major, Whirlpool India has announced the acquisition of 49% stake in Elica PB India, subsidiary of Elica SpA Italy for an estimated Rs 162 crores ($23.6m) in an all cash deal, as reported by The Economic Times and Mint . The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2018 and ...

Former Trilegal of counsel Rachika Sahay, who has been power company Ostro Energy’s general counsel (GC) in May 2015, has joined HSA Advocates as a partner.

“Swiggy raised $210 million from a group of investors, catapulting India’s largest food delivery service provider into a select club of startup unicorns with a valuation of $1 billion or more. The latest funding, led by Naspers and billionaire Yuri Milner’s DST Global, values Swiggy at roughly $1.3 ...

OYO, the technology-driven hotel chain, has hired Rakesh Prusti, the Max Healthcare director legal, regulatory affairs and compliance, as its general counsel (GC).

Luthra & Luthra will hire its third lateral corporate partner this year, with Link Legal India Law Services associate partner Alok Sonker due to join in Mumbai next month.

C orporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar , who stands accused of killing two when driving on the wrong side of a freeway when drunk in Mumbai in 2015, has appealed to the Bombay high court against the regional transport office (RTO) revokation of her driving licence for life, reported the Times of India . J...

“Symphony Ltd, one of the country’s leading air-cooler manufacturers, on Friday announced that it aims to acquire Australia’s Climate Technologies Pty Limited. The Ahmedabad-based company has signed an agreement to buy 95% equity stake in Climate Technologies, Australia’s leading manufacturer of cooling and heating appliances, it said,” reported Mint.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 8 of its lawyers to partner, growing it to a total of 109 partners, according to its press release.

“CDH Investments and Morningside Ventures are leading an investment of $14 million in Delhi-based online used phone seller Cashify along with existing investor Shunwei, said a third source familiar with the transactions CDH Investments confirmed the investment in Cashify adding that it is likely to ...

“PolicyBazaar, along with PaisaBazaar, has secured $238 million (Rs 1,600 crore) in equity financing led by SoftBank, the world’s largest technology investor, in the process joining a rapid succession of Indian enterprises being catapulted into the once-elusive Unicorn club”, reported the Economic T...