Sharma: From Shardul to Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi finance and insolvency practice head and partner Pranav Sharma, who returned to the firm in August 2012 after a six year stint at Linklaters, will relocate to the firm’s Mumbai office as a partner in the banking and finance practice on 1 Februa...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) won the mandate to represent long-standing client Facebook on its first Indian acquisition, in its buy of Bangalore-based mobile software analytics company Little Eye Labs for around $15m, which was advised by a local CA firm.

DSK Legal has appointed former Palladium Group South Asia head and director Rajesh Iyer as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the firm.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) advised Canaan Partners and Mayfield Fund and S&R Associates advised Bertelsmann India in investing $12m (Rs 75 crore) in residential listings website India Property Online (IPO) which was advised by Fox Mandal. ELP Mumbai associate partner Vinayak Burman with assoc...

Yogesh Bhattarai, who left AZB & Partners’ equity partnership in 2012 for a sabbatical, has joined Trilegal.

Wadia Ghandy partner Anand Shah, with his team of four associates, will join AZB & Partners in the New Year as a senior associate on partnership track.

As year-end approaches and law firms send out a flood of press releases for the annual deals league tables, Legally India has wrapped up the most interesting ones in one tidy package.

ALMT & Partners represented Pune-based Emcure Pharmaceuticals, in which private equity house Blackstone sold 13.09 per cent for Rs 650 crore ($105m) to Bain Capital; seller and buyer were advised by AZB & Partners Mumbai and Delhi respectively. ALMT Mumbai partner Hitesh Jain and senior as...

Axon Partners LLP advised Bharti Airtel on its €750m bond offering – the first in the currency by an Indian company – with Allen & Overy acting for the banks. Allen & Overy consultant and registered foreign lawyer Amit Singh, based in Hong Kong, acted for the joint bookrunners and lead man...

Vichar Partners advised the world’s third-largest pizza chain Papa John’s in selling a majority stake in its Indian franchisee OM Pizza & Eats to Avan Projects, which was advised by Advani & Co.

Phoenix Legal has shut down its Nariman Point and Lower Parel Mumbai offices and taken a bigger Churchgate office in place of both in the city.

AZB & Partners advised private equity (PE) firm Warburg Pincus as Wadia Ghandy advised PE firm Faering Capital in investing Rs 300 crore ($49m) in ladies ethnic wear maker Biba Apparels which was advised by OP Khaitan & Co.

Vaish Associates advised Japanese drug company Rohto Pharmaceutical in buying 40 per cent stake in Deep Care Health which was advised by Mundkur Law Partners. Vaish Gurgaon partner Hitender Mehta with principal associate Akshay Saxena and senior associate Pratyush Khurana acted for Rohto, which boug...

Former BMR Legal co-founding partner Sujit Ghosh has set up tax litigation firm Advaita Legal with ex-KPMG partner Sunil Moti Lala. Ghosh is based in Delhi, Lala is based in Mumbai and the firm has 30 lawyers across its offices in the two cities, reported legal website Bar & Bench . According t...

MV Kini partner Shrikant Kamath, who joined in 2012 to start its tax practice, left last week but is replaced by principal associate Prateush Sharma.

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate partners Ashwath Rau and Aysswarya Murthi acted for the Macquarie Group in the sale of its 50 per cent holding in Religare Macquarie Wealth Management to joint venture partner Religare Enterprises, which was advised by Vaish Associates corporate and banking partn...

Fortune Financial Services will be acquired by billionaire Sudhir Valia in a Rs 55 crore open offer, who is also acquiring Mumbai-based brokerage Antique Stock Broking and two subsidiaries for Rs 30 crore, as reported by Hindu Business Line . A Desai Diwanji Mumbai team led by partner Srishti Ojha, ...

Amarchand Mangaldas advised private equity major KKR on its Rs 1,300 crore ($200m) investment into pharma products company Gland Pharma, advised by AZB & Partners, with existing investors represented by Wadia Ghandy and Tatva Legal. Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff and Bangalore c...

Luthra & Luthra advised Indian private equity and real estate firm Everstone Capital in its joint venture with international fast food giant Burger King.

Suhaan Mukerji, who left Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi in June to advise the prime minister’s office, has started up a law firm with part of his former Amarchand team and three other lawyers as partners, which will offer legal and public policy and legitimate lobbying services to clients and NGOs. The f...