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26 May 2014
Private equity / VC

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.

23 May 2014
Private equity / VC

Shopping onlineIndus 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

16 May 2014
Private equity / VC

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 acted for India Value Fund and Desai & Diwanji partner Siddharth Mody and associates Ashraf Lala, Manav Shah and Ankesh Jain acted for Olympus.

DM Healthcare raised a further $65m from Olympus and IVF, reported the Economic Times.

The same firms had also acted on the initial $100m investment in 2012, as reported by Legally India at the time.

13 May 2014
Private equity / VC

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 partner Deepak Joyce acted for Matrix and Lightspeed, while Tiger Global drafted in Gunderson Dettmer New York partner Steven L Baglio and associate Eric Cheung.

19 February 2014
Private equity / VC

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.

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.

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.

09 December 2013
Private equity / VC

BIBA FashionAZB & 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.

08 November 2013
Private equity / VC

ZomatoJ Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Info Edge on Rs 57 crore, Themis Associates Sequoia on Rs 170.6 crore investments in Zomato.

25 October 2013
Private equity / VC

SteroidsDesai & Diwanji advised Indore-based steroids manufacturer Symbiotec Pharmalab and shareholders in the Rs 292 crore ($48m) PE investment by Actis Medal Sports, advised by Platinum Partners.