DSK Legal and UK firm Stephenson Harwood have closed a Rs 1,000 crore ($219m) joint venture (JV) between JSW Steel and UK steel major Severfield this month.

Exclusive: DSK Legal will split across North and South Mumbai and move out of Nariman Point’s Express Towers after securing office space in the Lower Parel Indiabulls Centre, which also houses three other law firms.

Luthra & Luthra has hired DSK Legal associate partner Deepak THM as a private equity and M&A partner in its growing Mumbai office, taking the total headcount to five partners.

DSK Legal, India Law Alliance and P&A Associates have advised Zicom Electronic Security Systems on restructuring and transferring of business units for Rs 225 crore ($49m) to Schneider Electric.

Wadia Ghandy won the Mumbai ELP Masters Cricket Cup 2010 yesterday in a reversal of last year’s final against Economic Laws Practice’s (ELP) powerful batting line-up.

Desai & Diwanji, DSK Legal and Wadia Ghandy have triple-teamed on the $100m private equity investment into Hyderabad power company Ind-Barath Power Infra.

AZB, DSK and Trilegal have done well in Asia Pacific private equity deal rankings despite heavily depressed values and volumes this year.