IndusLaw advised Snapdeal again on its largest round of investment to date with 12 other law firm teams.

AZB & Partners came out on top of a 2014 first-half-year league table released by corporate analytics company Venture Intelligence, recording 22 deals worth more than $2bn.

Ashlar Law, the firm founded by former PXV & Partners partners Pingal Khan in Mumbai and Bangalore and Souvik Bhadra in Kolkata, has completed its first deal, advising “big data” company Indus Insights on its Series A funding by Unilazer and Hive India. Khan, together with Kolkata-based associa...

Khaitan & Co has bagged the mandate to advise Omidyar Network’s investment in Indian start-up news and commentary website Scroll.in, according to a press release from the firm. Omidyar, which is founded by eBay billionaire founder Pierre Omidyar, was advised by Bangalore partner Ganesh Prasad w...

Indian Law Partners and Ashurst advised the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on investing Rs 630 million ($10.5m) in Takshasila Hospitals which was advised by JSA. ILP partners Piyoosh Gupta and Gaurav Wahie and associate Vaibhav Bhardwaj and Ashurst Tokyo partner Mark Davies, counsel...

Universal Legal advised Aavishkaar India II and Amarchand Mangaldas advised Fidelity Growth Partners India in investing Rs 80 crore ($13m) in Orissa-based dairy Milk Mantra which was advised by Wadia Ghandy. Universal partner Sameena Chatrapathy and associate Shreya Deora acted for existing investor...

Trilegal advised Nephro Health Services in International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Bessemer Venture Partners’ $10m investment in it. AZB & Partners advised IFC and P&C Legal advised Bessemer. Trilegal partner D Pavan Kumar, senior associate Emil Joseph and associate Dennis John acted f...

BMR Legal has continued advising online ticketing website BookMyShow in its latest fundraising round of Rs 150 crore by existing venture capital investors SAIF Partners and Accel Partners, who have continued relying on Indus Law.

Samvad Partners advised Pune-based Novix Media Inc, the company behind video ad tech online platform AdSparx in the funding of Rs 3.5 crore ($600,000) in it by Indian Angel Network, Mumbai Angels and Delhi-based Growx Ventures Management. The Investors were advised by Beacon Law Advisors PLLC. Samva...

S&R Associates advised international media house Bertelsmann’s strategic investment arm Bertelsmann India Investment in its investment online lifestyle marketplace Pepperfry. Pepperfry and its existing investor Norwest Venture Partners was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas. S&R Delhi partner ...

Desai & Diwanji advised Fidelity Capital in the sale of its equity in Laurus Labs, which was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas, to Warburg Pincus which was advised by AZB & partners.

Indus Law advised old client and online marketplace Snapdeal’s parent Jasper Infotech in its $100m (Rs 590 crore) second round of funding from US-based BlackRock Financial Management, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, Hong Kong-based Myriad Asset Management and Tybourne Capital Management, and Azim Premji’s Premji invest

Desai & Diwanji, DSK Legal and Universal Legal reprised their roles in Aster DM Healthcare’s second fundraising round. Universal Legal Chennai partners Kavitha Vijay and Sameena Chatrapatty acted for DM. On the repeat investor side, DSK partner Narendra Dingankar and associate Mayank Mehta acte...

IndusLaw partner Avimukt Dar with associates Aakriti Shakdher and Kriti Tannan acted for AM Marketplaces, which runs “social shopping platform” LimeRoad.com and received $15m in Series B funding from Tiger Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Matrix Partners VCCircle . Luthra & Luthra partne...

J Sagar Asssociates (JSA), Nishith Desai Associates and Trilegal acted on Goldman Sachs’ and Mitsui Global Investment’s Rs 315 crore ($50m) investment in Global Beverages & Foods.

Amarchand 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.

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 assoc...

ALMT & Partners represented Pune-based Emcure Pharmaceuticals, in which private equity house Blackstone sold 13.09 per cent for Rs 650 crore ($105m) to Bain Capital; seller and buyer were advised by AZB & Partners Mumbai and Delhi respectively. ALMT Mumbai partner Hitesh Jain and senior as...

AZB & Partners advised private equity (PE) firm Warburg Pincus as Wadia Ghandy advised PE firm Faering Capital in investing Rs 300 crore ($49m) in ladies ethnic wear maker Biba Apparels which was advised by OP Khaitan & Co.

Amarchand Mangaldas advised private equity major KKR on its Rs 1,300 crore ($200m) investment into pharma products company Gland Pharma, advised by AZB & Partners, with existing investors represented by Wadia Ghandy and Tatva Legal. Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff and Bangalore c...