Amarchand Mangaldas’ Mumbai region has advised the Aditya Birla Group on merging Aditya Birla Nuvo’s premium apparel business, Madura Garments Lifestyle Retail, with Pantaloons Fashion and Retail India. Mumbai-based managing partner Cyril Shroff, Bangalore partner Nivedita Rao and Mumbai-based partn...

Dhir & Dhir partner Raghul Goel with his team is to join the upcoming Delhi office of Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff, according to two authoritative sources.

BMR Legal indirect tax partner Madhav Rao, who had joined the sister law firm of consultancy BMR Advisors one year ago from Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, has left BMR to join Advaita Legal as a senior attorney, reported Bar & Bench . Advaita was set up in December 2013 by BMR co-founding partne...

Luthra & Luthra Delhi managing associate Siddharth Srivastava is joining Link Legal as a partner in banking and finance.

Linklaters has promoted Linklaters London managing associates Sushil Jacob to counsel today. Jacob specialises in banking, finance and corporate, having recently advised, according to a Linklaters press release: Barclays Bank on the sale of the entirety of its banking business in Pakistan to Habib B...

Verus Advocates has promoted disputes partner Charles De Souza to its partnership, as one of its senior partners Jay Parikh has left the firm.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has promoted private equity associate partner Vinayak Burman to its partnership, with six senior associates climbing the rung to associate partner level.

Phoenix Legal has opened its first office after Delhi and Mumbai, launching in Chennai today with a team of four lawyers.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised the shareholders of Lilac Medicare on selling it off to Japan’s Tosoh Corporation and Singapore’s Tosoh Asia which were advised by Rajani Singhania & Partners. JSA partner Sidharrth Shankar, senior associate Shantanu Jindel and associates Prakriti Jaiswal and Pr...

The end of mediation between Amarchand Mangaldas managing partners Cyril and Shardul Shroff has been postponed to at least 5 May, according to sources, though it could yet take till 7 May or longer.

Venture Intelligence, which tracks private equity transactions “involving India-based companies” has published its ranking for the first quarter of 2015.

Kochhar & Co senior partner Manishi Pathak is due to join the post Amarchand Mangaldas-break-up Delhi office of Amarchand Mumbai region managing partner Cyril Shroff.

Davis Polk & Wardwell registered foreign lawyer Amit Kataria has joined Morrison Foerster (MoFo) as an of counsel in Hong Kong. He specialises in cross border M&As and disputes and enforcement in India, according to MoFo’s press release, which added that he will help the firm grow its Indi...

AZB & Partners former Delhi partner Ritika Rathi will join the soon-to-be-started Delhi firm of Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff.

Amarchand Mangaldas’ Mumbai-region and Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Daiichi Sankyo on the $3.2bn sale of its 8.93 per cent stake in Sun Pharmaceutical. Luthra & Luthra and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Goldman Sachs which was the sole book runner for the deal. This deal, which wa...

In the business of law, the limited resource is not raw materials, marketing budgets or factory output capacity; it is literally the available time of a firm’s lawyers.

Corporate and commercial law firms in India turned over just over $1 billion in revenue in the 2014-15 financial year, estimated London-based legal market consultancy RSG Consulting in its bi-annual report on the Indian legal industry based on a survey of more than 500 clients and 26 law firm managing partners.

“)If all you care about are the top spots, not much has changed in the rankings of the 40 leading corporate Indian law firms that London-based RSG Consulting has produced since 2008.

Khaitan & Co is acting for Nasdaq-listed iGate Corp, which is being acquired by French IT consultancy Cap Gemini for $4bn. Khaitan Mumbai partner Rabindra Jhunjhunwala confirmed that Khaitan had been instructed by iGate but declined to comment further. UPDATE: Luthra senior partner Mohit Saraf ...

Clasis Law intellectual property head Ashwin Sapra has resigned and may join as a partner designate the firm to be started in Delhi by Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff next month, as first reported by Bar & Bench . Legally India has authoritatively confirmed that Sapra w...