I&S Associates
I&S Associates co-founder Anuradha Iyer joined Tatva Legal as a partner in Mumbai, in the firm’s corporate practice, while the firm promoted three managers to partnership, reported legal website Bar & Bench.
Iyer had set up I&S with Bakhtiar Sunavala in 2006 after her nine year stint at AZB & Partners. She graduated from GLC Mumbai and qualified as a Bombay solicitor.
Managers Ritika Pal and Seher Ali in Delhi and Raghunath Ananthapur in Bangalore were made up.
Khaitan & Co, Amarchand Mangaldas, J Sagar Associates (JSA), Naik Naik & Co, ALMT Legal, PRA Law Offices and Vaish Associates on some of the week’s top deals.
Corporate M&As continued to buttress law firm activity, while one NUJS graduate sweated it out with a high profile Delhi high court case. Khaitan & Co also kept busy in finance and capital markets, and projects and private equity proved solid.
Juris Corp, I&S Associates, Indus Law, MDP & Partners, along with Amarchand Mangaldas, AZB & Partners, Khaitan & Co, Luthra & Luthra, Trilegal and others kept busy on 15 selected deals.
M&As and capital markets transactions take a marginal lead over litigation, competition and private equity and venture capital deals, in our three-week roundup.
DLA Piper’s new German hires and Khaitan & Co have advised photovoltaic company Gehrlicher Solar AG on its reported $5m+ joint venture with Indian green-tech company Greenforce Enviro, which was advised by Mumbai firm I&S Associates.