Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) principal associate Rashi Saraf has re-joined IndusLaw, where she had worked six years ago, as a partner.

After three months of serving out his notice, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Delhi partner Anuj Prasad will join national rival Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) as partner and the firm’s (first) head of its new aerospace and defence sector group.

NEW DELHI: HomeVista Decor and Furnishing, which owns and operates online home interior design platform HomeLane, has raised $30 million (Rs 213.50 crore) in a new funding round, led by Evolvence India Fund, NSE-listed Pidilite Industries Ltd and New York-based investment firm FJ Labs. The Series D ...

Former Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai partner Vedant Shukla has joined Ultratech Cement as general manager (GM) legal for global M&A.

In yet another startup acquisition, Reliance Industries has scooped up Hyderabad-based SaaS startup NowFloats Technologies. The filings with the stock exchange show that Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited has acquired equity shares ...

Bombay Shaving Company (BSC) has raised Rs 45 crore in a new financing round, led by Sixth Sense Ventures, with participation from existing investor Colgate Palmolive Asia Pacific. Following the fundraising, a clutch of angels and early employees have exited the brand, which has picked up Rs 80 cror...

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) partner Varun Sehgal has joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) as a corporate partner in Delhi.

Girnar Software, which owns and operates auto portal CarDekho.com, has raised $70 million (about Rs 500 crore) in a fresh round of financing from a clutch of new and existing investors, including, Global Voyager Fund, an investment arm of Chinese retail financial services giant Ping An. Sunley House...

Delhi-headquartered ecommerce company FableStreet, on … December 9 … announced that it has closed $2.95 Mn (INR 20 Cr) Series A funding round. The investment was led by Fireside Ventures, with the participation of Pradeep Parameswaran, president for Uber India and South Asia; Dilip Khandelwal, MD an...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has, according to its press release, “acquired the media and entertainment practice” of independent lawyer Ashni Parekh, which “has been developed by her over the past 14 years and is recognised as one of the leading practices in the media and entertainment space in India”.

New York-based Encourage Capital has invested over Rs 100 crore ($14 million) in Electronica Finance Ltd (EFL) to fund the Pune-based lender’s expansion into the rooftop solar financing business. — VCCircle Desai & Diwanji advised Encourage Capital led by a transaction team of partner Aneesh Gu...

The Essel Group sold around 16.5% stake (in aggregate) in Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) to (i) OFI Global China Fund, LLC (off-market) and (ii) other investors by way of block trade on National Stock Exchange of India Limited (“Transaction”). The promoter group of Zee Entertainment En...

The all-equity partnership of Trilegal has elected to hire Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner Joseph Jimmy as a partner in banking and finance in Mumbai, growing its partnership to 54.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas competition partner Bharat Budholia, who had resigned in August 2019, is understood to be joining AZB & Partners in Mumbai next month.

Much like nearly every other industry, technology has been threatening to eat the world, if not lawyers’ lunches, though most action has been happening overseas.

Ford Motor Co. will cede control of most of its India operations to Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M), underscoring the US company’s long-drawn struggles to make a bigger dent in the world’s fourth-largest automobile market

Dhruv Singhal, who had in August left AZB & Partners, after having moved there in 2016 from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, has re-joined the latter.

SSG Capital acquired a total of 4.99% of equity stake in Tourism Finance Corporation of India (TFCI) in a combination of on-market and off market transactions. SSG’s FPI arm purchased 1.99% equity stake as market purchase and FDI arm viz. Tamaka Capital (Mauritius) Limited acquired 3% from Redkite C...

US-based private equity firm Advent International Corporation is set to acquire a controlling stake in home-grown snacks maker DFM Foods Pvt Ltd that owns brands such as Crax and Natkhat. — Hindu Business Line J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Advent International led by a team of partners Vikram Rag...

Sastasundar Ventures jumped 11.87% to Rs 108.85 after Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation signed an agreement to invest Rs 100 crore in Sastasundar Healthbuddy. — Business Standard AZB & Partners advised Mitsubishi Corporation led by a team of partners Daksh Trivedi and Anant Dang , senior associate...