DSK Legal advised Fortune 500 companies’ analytics provider Fractal Analytics in the Rs 150 crore ($25m) cash injection by private equity (PE) firm TA Associates, which was advised by Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) and Goodwin Procter. DSK Legal Mumbai partner Tushar Ajinkya acted for Fractal. NDA B...

Wadia Ghandy promoted three lawyers – Nihas Basheer, Anand Shah and Manish Vora - to partner level, as first reported by Bar & Bench . The promotions were announced today and take retrospective effect from 1 April, Wadia Ghandy managing partner Ashish Ahuja told Legally India . Basheer, who spe...

Kelley Drye has promoted NLSIU Bangalore graduate Deepak Nambiar to its partnership in New York.

Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Citibank former South Asia general counsel Sandip Beri as a partner in Delhi.

Amarchand Mangaldas has made 13 new partners this year, with seven in Delhi and five in Mumbai.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) and Amarchand Mangaldas swap corporate lawyers into partnership.

Correction: We published some erroneous designations in the A&O team. We regret the error, which has now been corrected. S&R Associates and O’ Melveny & Myers advised Swiss asset managers Partners Group in buying 80 per cent equity for Rs 1,620 crore ($270m) in US-based IT services co...

PnA Law Offices advised engineering Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) candidate Arnav Ohri in challenging the government assessment process, introduced by Kapil Sibal, for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in top Indian institutes including the IITs and the NITs.

Deutsche Bank GC to head up JPMorgan team of 6.

After Dr Amardeep Kainth’s death this year, the management of Dr Kainth & Associates, the firm he had founded in 1995, has passed to former partner Anupama Venugopal.

Desai & Diwanji advised auto parts maker Amtek Auto, which bought 51.2 per cent in the Jamshedpur-based JMT Auto for Rs 110 crore ($18.4m), according to VCCircle . JMT Auto was advised by Amicus. Desai & Diwanji Gurgaon-based partner Raghav Mathur assisted by senior associates Nikhil Sachd...

Former Kainth & Associates partner Satish Srinivasan joined ALMT Legal as a partner in Bangalore in its general corporate practice effective today.

Trilegal did not make any new partners this year but promoted senior associates Upasana Rao and Nitish Nair to counsel in Delhi. There were no promotions to counsel in the Mumbai region.

Vaish Associates advised pre-school network Brainworks Learning Systems and its investor Kusumbala Investments in selling out for Rs 5 crore ($824,810) to pre-school network Tree House Education & Accessories. Tree House was advised by Wadia Ghandy. Vaish Associates Mumbai corporate and banking...

Amarchand Mangaldas advised Videocon Hydrocarbon Holdings (VHHL) on the Indian leg of the $2.475bn (Rs 14,827 crore) sale of its 10 per cent stake in a Mozambique gas field in Brazil.

IndusLaw advised the founders of Redbus and its early investors Helion, Inventus and Seed Fund, in selling out the online bus-ticketing service for $100m (Rs 597 crore) to the Ibibo Group, which is a joint venture of South African Media giant Naspers and Chinese internet company Tencent. Amarchand M...

Amarchand Mangaldas advised State Bank of India (SBI), SBI Trustee and SBI AMC in buying Japan’s second-largest brokerage group Daiwa Security Group’s Daiwa Mutual Fund. Daiwa was advised by AZB & Partners. SBI will buy the Japanese fund for more than Rs 1.3 crore ($220,000), reports Mint . Ama...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi principal associate Kirat Singh Nagra will replace former Economic Laws Practice (ELP) litigation head and partner Tarun Gulati.

UBS India executive director and country counsel Nischal Hindia, who joined the financial institution from Allen & Overy London in 2011, has left to head of Diageo India’s legal team, reported Bar & Bench.

Dua Associates advised advertisement seller Amagi Media Labs in its second fundraising round of Rs 27.5 crore ($4.7m) from global venture capital (VC) fund Mayfield FVCI, which was advised by Economic Laws Practice (ELP). Dua Associates Mumbai partner Vinod Joseph with senior associate Sugandha Kama...