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31 January 2014
Projects

Amarchand Mangaldas maintained status quo as project finance leader for the third year running and reported a greater overall deal revenue since last year, according to data provider dealogic’s year end table for 2013.

31 January 2014
Law firms

GargAdvani & Co litigation partner Shashank Garg has left the firm to join Delhi litigation firm Suri & Co as partner.

23 January 2014
Law firms

Bigger diet balanced by smaller slicesDeal counts set new records while deal sizes didn’t reflect the count, indicating that all firms are taking the middling deal route to bring in the dough.

21 January 2014
Law firms

Universal promotesUniversal Legal made up three new partners in its Bangalore and Chennai offices.

17 January 2014
Law firms

Hufriz Wadia: Creating Dubai in ChennaiFormer Juris Corp partner and Chennai head Hufriz Wadia yesterday joined Kochhar & Co as a partner in its banking and finance, corporate and capital markets practice in Chennai.

16 January 2014
Law firms

Former AZB & Partners senior associate and ex-Jones Day lawyer Priya Mehra was promoted to of counsel at US law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s Singapore office, effective January 2014.

Mehra is part of the firm’s India practice which was also strengthened by former AZB senior associate Bharat Vansh Bahadur in 2013, according to a press release from the firm.

Mehra, who obtained an LLB in 2002 from Delhi University and joined AZB until 2007, worked at Jones Day Singapore before joining Gibson Dunn in 2008. She is dual qualified to practice in India and England & Wales.

“Ms. Mehra has an extensive background working in the Indian markets and her experience includes advising foreign investors in formation of joint ventures in India and/or acquiring stakes in Indian companies; advising private equity investors on the most viable investment options in India vis-à-vis foreign investment guidelines; advising Indian companies in forming joint ventures and acquiring stakes in overseas companies; and advising Indian and foreign investors in acquiring government equity in public sector undertakings, including advice on key issues related to status of government companies and implications of change in status,” stated the release.

14 January 2014
Law firms

Valerie BowlesValerie Bowles, Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai chief operating officer (COO) who joined from the UK in 2009, has resigned from the firm.

13 January 2014
Corporate M&A

The four firms advised on the National Stock Exchange’s acquisition of Computer Age Management Services, which is valued at up to Rs 1,500 crore.

13 January 2014
Law firms

Mohit SarafAfter it announced a strategy revamp six months ago, Luthra & Luthra transactional billings in the corporate transactional division have shot up by 36 per cent.

13 January 2014
Law firms

Vaibhav KakkarLuthra & Luthra has promoted two lawyers – Vaibhav Kakkar and Kanchan Sinha - to partnership in an “exceptional” promotion round.

09 January 2014
Private equity / VC

CowsAmarchand Mangaldas advised the world’s largest dairy player Groupe Lactalis in buying Hyderabad-based Tirumala Milk Products for Rs 1,750 crore ($275m), including buying out private equity major Carlyle Group’s stake. Carlyle was advised by JSA.

09 January 2014
Corporate M&A

Facebook likes Little EyeJ 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.

08 January 2014
Law firms

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

07 January 2014
Private equity / VC

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 associate manager Archana Khosla and associate Trishna Sharma acted for existing IPO investors Canaan and Mayfield in the $12m series B Funding as reported by the Business Standard.

S&R partner Rajat Sethi and associates Rachael Israel, Lakshmi Pradeep and Sowjhanya Shankaran acted for Bertelmann which is the strategic investment arm of the German media company Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA in India, as reported by Mint.

Fox partner Jeevandham Rajagopalan and associate Anju Menon acted for IPO which is a Consim Info spun-off founded by the maker or Matrimony.com, according to the Hindu.

04 January 2014
Law firms

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