India Law Services (ILS) has advised IDBI and six other banks on an ECB (external commercial borrowing) loan transaction involving $350m borrowings to Tata Teleservices in Maharashtra. Tata Teleservices, which also operates GSM services as the Tata DOCOMO enterprise, handled the legal advice through...

Exclusive: Naik Paranjpe & Co name partner Ashok Paranjpe and his team have joined former JSA partner Nishit Dhruva’s start-up MDP & Partners, hiking the partnership there to six as the firm will quadruple its floorspace with a new Ballard Estate office.

Exclusive: Dua Associates Hyderabad has advised on the construction of a major NCC Infrastructure Rs 7,047 crore power project with Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi leading for the lenders, one year after India Legal merged with Dua following Tatva Legal’s mega-breakaway.

HSA Advocates has hired Abhishek Dutta and Nand Kishore as partners from BMR Advisors to start an indirect tax practice, according to the firm. The hires expand the firm’s partnership to nine in Delhi and two in Mumbai, according to HSA partner Navin Syiem. Dutta who had studied at NLSIU Bangalore w...

J Sagar Associates (JSA), AZB & Partners and Japanese law firm Anderson Mori & Tomotsune have advised on Indian stationery maker Camlin’s majority stake buy-out by Japanese counterpart Kokuyo for Rs 186 crore.

Exclusive: Naik Naik & Company, as it will be now known after a rebranding effective tomorrow, has opened up a new office focusing on media law in Andheri in order to be closer to Bollywood studio clients, while finalising a third Mumbai office in mid-town and preparing to open in Delhi.

Trilegal has acted for longstanding clients Caparo Energy on its contract with Gamesa Wind Turbines, advised by Fox Mandal Little (FML), for the supply, erection and commissioning of a 2000 MW of wind turbines for a consideration of $2bn. Trilegal Delhi-based partner Charandeep Kaur along with couns...

Exclusive: Former FoxMandal Delhi partner Ravi Bishnoi has filed a summary suit in the Delhi High Court to recover Rs 79.4 lakh ($174,000) from the firm, almost two years after he resigned as partner following allegedly unpaid dues.

Luthra & Luthra and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom have advised US research company Forrester Research on its acquisition of Knowledge Platform-owned Springboard Research. Luthra & Luthra partner Shweta Hingorani was assisted by managing associate Suyash Srivastava, senior assoc...

AZB & Partners, J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Vaish Associates have advised on the private equity funding raised by ETech Aces Marketing & Consulting from Intel Capital and existing investor Info Edge. Vaish Associates’ Gurgaon office head and partner Hitender Mehta along with senior associ...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi has advised on Kazakhstan-based EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) company KazStroy Group’s open offer to the public shareholders of its Indian subsidiary Petron Engineering Construction. Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi-based partner Akila Agrawal led the transaction...

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The Bangalore offices of Vaish Associates Advocates and Trilegal have advised on $10m private equity (PE) investment of Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures in Bangalore-based third-party mobile applications developer Sourcebits.

The Bangalore offices AZB & Partners and Trilegal Mumbai have advised on a $13m private equity minority stake investment by Fidelity in logistics major Transpole Logistics. Trilegal partner Amit Tambe was assisted by senior associate Kunal Chandra and associate Shruti Singh leading for Fidelity...

Kochhar & Co partner Ngangom Junior Luwang has won the tender to draft the legislation and framework of the government’s India’s National Population Register (NPR) and Residency Certification Project, which is set to create a database and issue residency cards to all Indian residents.

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FoxMandal Little (FML) has announced that it is merging with the boutique practice of Tony Khindria called LexIndia, which has offices in Delhi, Paris and London.

The Mumbai offices of Vaish Associates and Trilegal have advised on a pre-IPO sale of a stake in India’s largest diagnostics player Super Religare Laboratories to Sabre Partners for Rs 50 crore ($11m). Vaish Associates corporate and infrastructure partner Martand Singh along with senior associate Ya...

Mumbai firm Rajani Associates has entered into a non-exclusive referral agreement with Australian boutique firm Rockwell Bates, which was not a “best friend relationship” the firm stressed.

The Delhi and Kolkata offices of Amarchand Mangaldas and Delhi’s AZB & Partners advised on Warburg Pincus’ $140m investment in Dainik Bhaskar-owned Diligent Power.