Thomson Reuters has acquired one of India’s largest pure play legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies Pangea3.

Exclusive: Naik Paranjpe & Co said it won back the 9pm prime-time slot for Viacom18 Media television show Bigg-Boss 4, following the Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s categorisation of the show as an adult show after complaints of vulgarity, having pushed the show’s airing to the later 11pm slot.

Exclusive: Mysore-based legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider SDD Global Solutions has won the mandate to assist on a claim and provide US law litigation support to the non-profit Fight The Power (FTP) Foundation, which represents music artists who claim they have been cheated out of their royalties by big record companies.

Exclusive: Delhi law firm Zeus Law Associates has expanded with a second office in the National Capital Region (NCR) area, opening a branch office in Gurgaon to leverage infrastructure development and SEZ related market opportunities.

Khaitan & Co and UK firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have advised on the Global Depository Receipt (GDR) issue of Indian coal-bed methane producer Great Eastern Energy Corporation Limited (GEECL) on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) after its listing on London’s Alternative Investments Market (AIM) earlier in 2005.

Responding in writing to a question in the Indian parliament law minister Veerappa Moily stated that there were no proposals to allow foreign firms into India.

Khaitan and Partners has acted for long-standing clients Jet Airways in a criminal action instituted against an individual who allegedly siphoned off Rs 2.07 crores from the airline’s account by seeking double refunds on the cancellation of 163 airline tickets.

Exclusive: Kochhar & Co has lured senior independent litigator J Sivanandaraaj into its Chennai office as a senior partner with the firm putting its faith in Tamil Nadu as the source of India’s future manufacturing miracle.

Legal process outsourcing (LPO) company UnitedLex, which is backed by Indian and Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firms, has acquired Los Angeles-based LPO LawScribe giving it offices in Los Angeles, New York and Gurgaon, reported VCCircle.

Phoenix Legal and Tatva Legal have advised on the global catering and onboard services provider Gategroup’s 74 per cent stake take-over of India’s leading airline catering company Skygourmet, which is valued at $92m.

Media law specialist Naik Paranjpe & Co has secured exhibition and distribution rights for multi-starrer film Action Replayy by winning a favourable interim order from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against six distributors for allegedly indulging in anti-competitive cartelisation practices.

Desai & Diwanji and UK international firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have jointly acted on Indian publicly listed Elecon Engineering’s acquisition of the UK’s Benzler-Radicon group of businesses for £18.4m and other global business arms.

AZB & Partners and Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi have advised on the world’s largest express shipping company FedEx’s acquisition of Indian logistics services provider AFL Private Limited and its subsidiary Unifreight.

Discussions to allow foreign law firms to operate in India were dropped during US President Barack Obama’s state visit to India, said two US law firm partners who were part of the delegation.

Exclusive: Boutique startup Finsec Law Advisors has been drafted into the long-running MCX Stock Exchange dispute with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) that will again hit the Bombay High Court, alongside Naik Paranjpe & Co and J Sagar Associates (JSA).

AZB & Partners and Economic Laws Practice (ELP) have advised in the private equity investment led by Nokia Growth Partners (NGP) and Cisco in the IT hosting service provider Netmagic Solutions resulting in a 12 per cent equity buy worth Rs 46.5 crore ($10.6m).

Khaitan & Co, Wadia Ghandy, Simmons & Simmons and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have advised on Barclays Bank’s reinvestment in the outsourcing unit Intelenet involving an all-cash acquisition of a 12.75 per cent stake in its holding company SKR BPO Services Private Limited.

Crawford Bayley and Dorsey & Whitney have won the mandate to advise public sector undertaking SAIL on its follow-on public offer (FPO) to raise Rs 8,000 crore.

Majmudar & Co and UK firm TLT have acted as legal counsel to the lender Punjab National Bank (International) Limited [PNBIL] in two cross-border loans to finance the acquisition and operation of US-based and Indonesian mining groups.

AZB & Partners, Indus Law, ALMT Legal and Trilegal have topped data provider Venture Intelligence’s private equity league tables for the first nine months of this year.