Law firms
Law firms
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) Mumbai dispute resolution partner Madhur Baya left the firm last week to start up his own arbitration practice LexArbitri.
Law firms
India Today Group’s Business Today magazine has chosen Madhurima Mukherjee, who left Luthra & Luthra last week, and Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Pallavi Shroff, as two of India’s 25 “most powerful women in business”.
AZB & Partners Mumbai-based co-founder Zia Mody has won the award several times since 2004 and is now inducted into the magazine’s so-called hall of fame, and therefore ineligible for any future awards.
Yesterday’s ceremony is understood to have also been attended by Luthra & Luthra managing partner Rajiv Luthra, and Bharti Shroff, Amarchand partner and mother-in-law of Pallavi Shroff.
[via Business Today: Mukherjee ‘capital gains’ profile & picture (warning, contains geese); Pallavi Shroff ‘queen of the court’ profile]
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Juris Corp partner and Chennai head Hufriz Wadia has resigned, having joined in January to open the office in the city.
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Former J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai partner Shiraj Salelkar joined IC Legal’s equity partnership yesterday as the sixth partner at the firm.
Law firms
Luthra & Luthra capital markets head and partner Madhurima Mukherjee has announced her resignation from the firm today.
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KSB Partners, which was co-founded in 2006 by Samir Bedi, Srinivas Kilambi and Siddharth Singh, is set to dissolve and re-start.
Law firms
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has opened an office in Bangalore, headed by Mumbai equity partner Nishant Shah, reported Bar & Bench.
The firm will focus on tax and corporate in Bangalore and was looking to finalise a new office in Chennai under senior associate Kartik Sundaram. This would be ELP’s sixth office, alongside its headquarters in Mumbai, and offices in Delhi, Ahmedabad and Pune.
In April Tarun Gulati and a team of 11 were poached by Ernst & Young (E&Y) affiliate law firm PDS Legal, with ELP rebuilding its Delhi litigation practice two months later with Amarchand Mangaldas lateral hire Kirat Singh and nine others.
Law firms
Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) is set to open an office in Munich, moving one lawyer there full-time this month.
Private equity / VC
Universal Legal advised Andhra Pradesh-based Rainbow Hospitals, in which the UK-government owned CDC and private equity investor Abraaj Group invested Rs 100 crore ($16m). Wadia Ghandy advised the CDC and Abraaj Group.
Universal Legal Chennai-based partner Kavitha Vijay and senior associate Sameena Chatrapathy acted for the 14-year old paediatric and maternity healthcare business in AP, which currently has 450 beds but will expand after this business.
Wadia Ghandy Bangalore partner Ankit Majumdar and senior associate Anubhav Agarwal acted for the investors. This was CDC’s first direct equity investment and it intends to invest $1bn in India in the financial services sector, healthcare, renewable energy, and consumer-related businesses, according to the ET.
Corporate M&A
S&R Associates and Kirkland & Ellis advised the UK-based Kewill group and its backers Francisco Partners, in buying Hyderabad-based software solutions provider Four Soft for Rs 265 crore ($43.4m). Four Soft was advised by BMR Legal.