Amarchand Mangaldas
GNLU Gandhinagar, which has placed at least 13 fourth year students this year, refused to divulge figures for its 11 April Day Zero recruitment again.
NUJS Kolkata’s 2015 graduating batch has accepted 27 job offers across seven firms with a mix of 16 so-called Day Zero offers made after interviews on campus on April 16 and 11 pre-placement offers (PPOs) made after internships to students.
NLU Delhi’s third batch, that will graduate in 2015 has already placed 10 students with confirmed jobs after its Day Zero of recruitment on 4 April, with four offers subject to internships and three vacation placements with foreign firms.
Traditional NLU Jodhpur recruiters Amarchand Mangaldas, Luthra & Luthra and Trilegal hit campus again on 2 April, in addition to Khaitan & Co, to make 12 job offers to the class graduating in 2015.
AZB, Trilegal and Luthra had the biggest reported deals in the first quarter of the year, which was a bit of a let down compared to the first quarter of 2014 but is looking up.
At least three domestic law firms acted on Vodafone UK’s buyout of Vodafone India shareholders to take full control over its Indian subsidiary for more than $1.6bn.
Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai region has promoted 13 of its lawyers to principal associate and 20 to senior associate.
Sun Pharma bought debt-ridden pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy for $4bn from Daiichi Sankyo.
There was a fire yesterday in Amarchand Mangaldas’ Hyderabad office of around 20 people. No one was injured in the fire and no documents were lost, said Amarchand Mumbai senior partner Vandana Shroff.
The fire did not start in Amarchand’s office and the cause was still being investigated, she said. Staff has now temporarily moved to a business centre.
Update: Hat-tip to commenter for a link to a story in The Hindu about the fire: It started at 5am from an educational consultancy and spread to other floors.
Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Pooja Mahajan, who was promoted in 2013 after joining the firm in 2007, has resigned, telling legal website Bar & Bench that she had not yet made up her mind on her next move, but might teach for a while or do a PhD.
Amarchand Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff told B&B that he wished her well, and that she would go abroad to study, travel, study Indian music and teach law. Mahajan holds a 2004 undergrad from Delhi University and a 2007 LLM from Oxford University. [Bar & Bench]
Litigation, corporate, M&A, capital markets and private equity deals in brief from a cross-section of India’s top law firms.
Amarchand Mangaldas emerged as the large law firm with the highest ratio of female lawyers ranked by the 2014 Chambers and Partners lawyer directory, while J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Trilegal came lowest with as few as 6 per cent of senior female lawyers.
The CCI has fined Mumbai's Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital with a Rs 3.81 crore fine for entering into an anti-competitive agreement with a stem cell bank.
14 Indian law firm partners and senior associates will be named as “up and comers” and “associates to watch” in legal directory Chambers and Partners’ yet-to-be released Asia Pacific 2014 guide.
Amarchand team wins relay race: Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai general corporate partner Indranath Bishnu, principal associate Himanshu Dodeja, senior associate Aditya Sabharwal and staff member Vasant Ravande were up to a “stampede” last weekend, according to an Amarchand press release. They completed a relay race in 1 hour, 44 minutes and 6 seconds to emerge at the top of 200 teams representing 100 Indian companies running a track of 20km. “Simply logging in three or four runs per week” prepared all team members for the event, said Bishnu. The same team had also previously participated in the Mumbai Marathon
Jan Lokpal bill needs governor assent or not?: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Lt governor Najeeb Jung countering solicitor general Mohan Parasaran’s opinion that every bill to be passed by the Delhi assembly must first be vetted by Jung in order to be legal. Kejriwal, who intends to have the way clear to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill this week, based his view on the legal opinion of former Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court Mukul Mudgal and senior advocates K N Bhatt, P V Kapur and Pinaki Misra [TOI]
Karkardooma court strike: Lawyers in Delhi’s Karkardooma district courts are boycotting work to protest the shifting of family courts from the Karkardooma court complex to a locality in East Delhi. The Shahdara bar association is attempting to coordinate a strike among bar associations of all the six Delhi districts, over the issue [PTI]
NTPC to continue supply power, unpaid for now: The Supreme Court on Friday restrained India’s largest thermal power maker NTPC from cutting off supply, over unpaid dues, to the two BSES discoms which supply power to 70 per cent areas of Delhi. The two BSES discoms, which were earlier facing possible licence cancellation from the electricity regulator, due to large power outages as a result of fund crunch to buy power, have been ordered to pay up Rs 50 crore to NTPC within two weeks, and the SC has posted the case of dues running up to Rs 20,000 crore, for final hearing on 26 March [PTI]
Western Orissa lawyers force city bandh: Western Orissa lawyers, who are agitating for a permanent bench of the Orissa high court in Western Orissa, have been forcing closure of government offices since last Monday and forced closure of financial institutions and banks from Friday at Sambalpur, while “senior members” of the bar in that part of the state have reportedly been on a hunger strike [TOI]
Law Comm chief AP Shah on homosexuality: Law commission chief and former Delhi high court chief justice AP Shah, who had authored the judgement decriminalising gay sex under Section 377, spoke in favour of homosexuaal intercourse's legality, in an interaction with students [TOI]
Khaitan capitalises on Morgan Stanley hire alongside Amarchand, Luthra in $930m Cairn India buy-back
Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi office is acting for exploration giant Cairn India, which is buying back up to 14.98% of its equity share capital for $930m (Rs 5,725 crore) from the open market through stock exchanges.
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.
Deal 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.
Valerie Bowles, Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai chief operating officer (COO) who joined from the UK in 2009, has resigned from the firm.