Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai principal associate Satyam Sharat will join Ashurst’s Jakarta office as a foreign legal consultant in a month. He specialises in banking, having joined Amarchand in 2006 from JurisCorp after graduating from NLIU Bhopal in 2005. Ashurst India head Richard Gubbins said: “We ...

Luthra & Luthra advised Max India’s year-old subsidiary arm Antara Senior Living in setting up a Dehradun-based living community for senior citizens.

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate partners Amita Choudhary and Aysswarya Murthy are set to leave the firm.

Cognizant APAC GC Anand Bhushan explains how the team has turned from “cost center” to business “partner”.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Bangalore-based milling machine maker Milltec Group in Mauritian fund Multiples’ buy-out of half its equity for Rs 250 crores ($43.3m). Multiples was advised by Khaitan & Co Bangalore. JSA partners Sajai Singh and Gerald Manoharan, senior associate Prashant Kuma...

Seth Dua & Associates advised Chinese telco ZTE Corporation in filing a winding up petition against Indian phone service provider Loop Mobile in the Bombay high court

Amarchand Delhi, Jones Day Cleveland and Sullivan Cromwell London acted on Gurgaon’s Apollo Tyres $2.5bn takeover of Ohio-based Cooper.

Amarchand Mangaldas is advising publishers of the Hindustan Times HT Media on its Rs 25 crore buyback of 2.05 per cent of its shares, which commenced on 3 June and will be open latest until 13 May 2014. Amarchand Delhi partner Inder Mohan Singh, principal associate designate Kunal Mehra and senior a...

Amarchand for Adani Ports, Khaitan & Co and Jones Day step up for the banks.

DMH for YES Bank founder family’s SPV, Kanga for sellers Citi and GSK.

Khaitan & Co promos Abhishek Sharma & Avaantika Kakkar to equity in Mumbai, hires start-up litigator Rahul Sahay in Delhi.

AZB & Partners and DLA Piper advised Indian engineering design company Rolta in its $200m bond sale on the Singapore stock exchange. Trilegal and Davis Polk & Wardwell advised the joint lead managers Barclays, Citigroup, DBS Bank and Deutsche Bank. Trilegal partner Srinivas Parthasarathy w...

Pramod Rao, the founder partner of IndusLaw’s Mumbai office and former general counsel (GC) of ICICI Bank, will join Citibank India as its GC in July.

Desai Diwanji, Freshfields, Linklaters, TTA sold German machining company to India auto maker

Amarchand Mangaldas partner Suhaan Mukerji, who was responsible for the firm’s public policy and lobbying-style practice in Delhi, has resigned to focus on his work as expert advisor to Sam Pitroda, Office of Adviser to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations...

Amarchand Mangaldas and Latham & Watkins advised London-listed mining giant Vedanta on largest ever bond offering by an Indian corporate.

Finsec Law Advisors has hired Anil Choudhary from Trilegal as a senior associate to shore up its securities transactional practice. Choudhary graduated from Harvard Law School’s LLM programme in 2010, joined Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) in January 2011 and was at Trilegal between July 2012 and May...

Rachit Bahl, Nandita Govind and Ritika Rathi make salaried partner Delhi; Nilanjana Singh, Nandish Vyas confirmed in Mumbai.

Khaitan & Co and Davis & Gilbert advised Japanese media giant Dentsu and its Indian subsidiary in picking up 80 per cent stake in Indian digital agency Webchutney. Webchutney was advised by SA Partners.

Beri Citi South Asia general counsel (GC) Sandip Beri has resigned to go back to private practice according to legal website Bar & Bench . Beri had joined Citi from GE Capital in 2010, as reported by Legally India . He graduated as a lawyer from Delhi University in 1983 and obtained an LLM from...