Piyush Mishra, former projects partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Delhi, who had resigned four months ago, yesterday joined AZB & Partners in Mumbai as a partner.

K Law partner and Mumbai-based litigation head Karthik Somasundram has joined Bharucha & Partners in Mumbai today, growing its litigation practice to seven partners.

Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent has invested $115m in Indian music streaming service Gaana, which is owned and was started by Times Internet. Times Internet in-house counsel Parul Sabharwal instructed Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas partner Amit Khansaheb , principal associate Nikhil Sachdeva , se...

Mint reported:

Paytm appoints Pallavi Shroff as board member to boost legal firepower

Benglauru: The move by payments firm Paytm to appoint veteran lawyer Pallavi Shroff as a board member is an indicator that

Food and delivery logistics service Swiggy has raised $100m in a Series F round of investment from Naspers and Meituan-Dianping. “Led by the global investment and media conglomerate, Naspers, with participation from the Chinese e-commerce company Meituan-Dianping, the investment is an indicator that...

Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of RIL has proposed to acquire a 65% stake in Indian Film Combine for Rs 1,105 crores ($171m) from its existing shareholders, as reported by Mint and Business Standard . As per the BSE filing, RIIHL will be acquiring 20% of the ...

UK firm Travers Smith has introduced “That’s not cool” as a phrase and hashtag that anyone at the law firm is intended to be able to use in response to anything that a colleague has said or done that makes them uncomfortable, reported The Lawyer (requires free registration to read).

Singapore-based Fullerton Financial Holdings along with existing investors has picked up over 25% stake in Bengaluru based online lending startup, Lendingkart Technologies by raising an estimated Rs 565 crores ($87m) equity capital in a Series C funding round, making it one of the largest in the SME...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) acted as the Indian legal advisors to the Marvell Technology Group in the transaction and was represented by partner Probir Roy Chowdhury along with principal associate Vishnu Nair.

The Mumbai office of law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) last week, in connection with the Nirav Modi scam.

CK Birla-owned BirlaSoft and KPIT Technologies together have announced an open offer to the minority shareholders of KPIT, to merge and create a Rs 4,585 crore ($716m) combined entity thereafter splitting into two publicly traded units - a $200m automotive engineering and mobility solutions company ...

Link Legal India Law Services has promoted salaried partner and NLIU Bhopal 2006 alumnus Siddharth Srivastava into equity, increasing its equity partnership to nine partners.

DSK Legal assisted Bharat Forge in the drafting, reviewing, negotiating and revising of the transaction and closing documents and was represented by partner Narendra Dingankar and senior associate Varun Shah.

As reported in a number of publications, Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One is exploring entering India with the largely untested ultra-fast transportation technology.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas managing partner Pallavi Shroff is set to join India’s largest e-payments brand Paytm as a director, reported Business World.

PSL has two new partners - Amity Delhi 2012 alumni Angad Sandhu and Soayib Qureshi, taking its partnership size to seven partners.

JSA has promoted four to its partnership in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) real estate partner Avnish Sharma is to join Khaitan & Co next month, boosting its real estate practice in Delhi that it’s long been looking to fill.

Former Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas partner Saanjh Purohit is set to join Facebook as associate general counsel, reported Bar & Bench . A Nalsar Hyderabad alumnus, she joined the erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas in 2006 and was made partner at SAM in 2015. Purohit specialises in commercial litigati...

The Indian capital markets have a new international king, at least going by law firms and volumes of initial public offerings (IPO), and it’s Sidley Austin, in a league table dominated by a completely new list of firm names after a swathe of some big-name partner moves in the past years.