DSK Legal Mumbai partner and co-founding member of 14 years, Raksha Kothari, has resigned.

The 305-page judgment that overturned the drunk driving conviction of Salman Khan has been uploaded on the Bombay high court website.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas acted for Blackstone on its sale of shares in the Rs 500 crore ($75 m) initial public offer (IPO) of fragrance maker SH Kelkar & Co which was advised by DSK Legal. Khaitan & Co and Jones Day advised the IPO’s book running lead managers JM Financial Institutional Securities and Kotak Mahindra Capital Company.

Indian Law Partners (ILP) advised Toshiba Corporation which bought Rs 400 crore ($60.7m) worth of shares in Noida based water services company UEM India from India Value Fund (IVF) and UEM’s promoter Krishnan Kshetry. IVF was advised by DSK Legal and Kshetry was advised by Amicus Services. ILP partn...

DSK Legal managers Hemang Parekh, Pragya Dhamija and Chandrima Mitra have been promoted to associate partner while no full partners were made this year, reported Bar & Bench.

Parekh and Dhamija specialise in corporate, while Mitra focuses on media and entertainment.

DSK Legal advised Indium V (Mauritius) Holdings on buying approximately 75 per cent stake in hospitality chain deGustibus Hospitality which was advised by Kanga & Co. DSK Legal also advised India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA), which is raising $700m for Indium V, in its $30m infusion into deGustib...

DSK Legal advised Klenzaids Contamination Controls in selling 49 per cent stake to Robert Bosch Investment Nederland which was advised by Khaitan & Co. DSK Mumbai co-founding partner Anand Desai, managing associate Pragya Dhamija and associate Prachi Garg acted for Klenzaids, which has a turnov...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised and assisted NIIT Technologies on investing for 51 per cent stake in Incessant Technologies which was advised by DSK Legal. JSA partner Lalit Kumar, senior associate Bharati Joshi and associate Ritika Arora acted for NIIT Technologies. DSK partner Ajay Shaw and manag...

Barely hours after he was sentenced to five years jail in the 2002 accident case, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was granted two days interim bail on medical grounds by the Bombay High Court today. Rushing post-haste to secure bail, Salman’s defence team led by Supreme Court counsel Harish Salve me...

The Delhi high court has designated six new senior counsel today, according to two authoritative sources.

DSK Legal won against Economic Laws Practice (ELP) in the finals of the seventh ELP Masters Cricket Cup between Mumbai law firms, held on Sunday 22 February at the Police Gymkhana Cricket Ground.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised FIL Capital Investments (Mauritius) II on its Rs 51 crore purchase of equity and Economic Laws Practice (ELP) advised Somerset Indus Healthcare Fund I on its Rs 6 crore investment in Cygnus Medicare which was advised by DSK Legal. JSA Delhi partner Manvinder Singh, s...

DSK Legal Delhi corporate, competition and litigation partner Balbir Singh has resigned from the partnership to begin counsel practise in Delhi.

DSK Legal advised Kancor Ingredients in selling a majority stake to French company Mane SA, Switzerland which was advised by Crawford Bayley. DSK managing partner Anand Desai with partner Ajay Shaw and senior associates Pragya Dhamija and Aditee Mohta acted for Kancor. Crawford partner Sanjay Asher ...

Senior counsel Iqbal Chagla told the Bombay high court in his closing remarks that his client Cyril Shroff would be filing an affidavit showing the “deep involvement” of his brother in the will.

DSK Legal has doubled its office space in Pune within six months of opening up in the city, on the back of new large local corporate client accounts.

DSK Legal advised Kerala-based NeST Technologies Corporation, SFO Technologies, Network Systems & Technologies and their promoters in divesting Nest group’s engineering software business for Rs 500 crore ($81m) to Bangalore-based engineering services provider QuEST Global Engineering Services, ...

DSK Legal’s only partner in Bangalore, Ajesh Kumar Shankar, demerged his practice from DSK into AKS Law Associates in April, going independent again.

A Delhi high court judgment has ruled against the Income Tax Department but in effect upped the pressure on other Mauritius or overseas-based tax avoidance structures.

DSK Legal partner Balbir Singh, who was appointed as one of six law firm lawyers to the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) external panel in September 2012, has resigned from the panel. Delhi partner Singh said that the panel appointment was ordinarily for three years but that he had decided to...