Freshly minted Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner Himanshu Dodeja will join private equity major Blackstone as its India general counsel (GC).

Both sides of the now divided Amarchand Mangaldas family empire have considerably increased their recruitments for 2017 from top law schools, many top firms have filled up their quota from recruits from top law schools already.

Khaitan & Co advised VSK Holdings and its promoters Vikram Kirloskar and Geetanjali Kirloskar on selling their stake in Takshashila Hospitals to existing joint venture partners Toyota Tsusho Corporation Japan and Secom Medical System Singapore, which were advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA). Kh...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas advised HCL Technologies on its $200m (Rs 1,325 crore) share swap deal buying Geometric which was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA). CAM Bangalore corporate partner Nivedita Rao, Mumbai corporate partner Smruti Shah, Delhi corporate partner Harsh Kumar and Mumbai competit...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has introduced the principal associate designation into its associate career track.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted 15 to salaried partner level.

JSA’s Berjis Desai answers the tough questions about Som Sundaresan’s departure.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai partner Somasekhar Sundaresan, one of the top securities lawyers in India, is set to resign and take up independent counsel practice, Legally India understands authoritatively.

IndusLaw and R&C Legal advised online payment gateway start up Emvantage Payments on its acquisition by global e-commerce major Amazon which was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Greenberg Traurig. Indus Delhi partner Avimukt Dar, senior associate Anubha Sital and associate Shreya Suri an...

DLA Piper Middle East and J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised GMS Pharma (Singapore) on its $22m buy of 25.1 per cent equity in Strides Shasun subsidiary Stelis Biopharma which was advised by DSK Legal. DLA Dubai legal director Diwakar Agarwal and legal consultant Erik Stier, and JSA Mumbai partner San...

Khaitan & Co advised Reliance Communications on gaining Competition Commission of India (CCI) approval for its acquisition of Russian conglomerate Sistema’s Indian telecom unit Sistema Shyam Teleservices which was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Baker & McKenzie. Khaitan Mumbai par...

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) advised Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) on its meter management joint venture with Tam Media Research which is itself a joint venture between Kantar Media Research and Nielsen. Kantar was advised by Platinum Partners and Nielsen was advised by J Sagar Associ...

Squire Patton Boggs and J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Axis Capital, ICICI Securities, IIFL Holdings and YES Securities on the $60m (Rs 400 crore) initial public offer (IPO) of Indian integrated business services provider Quess Corp. Quess Corp was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Squire Sing...

Nishith Desai Associates advised Birla Corporation on its $706.7m (Rs 4800 crore) acquisition of Anil Ambani’s cement business – a Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) subsidiary which was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA). NDA Mumbai associates Karan Kalra and Abhinav Harlalka, and partners Rajesh Si...

The new report by legal directory Chambers & Partners, which compiles an annual tiered ranking of law firms and partners in various practice areas, has seen Khaitan & Co take the top spot by number of “ranked” lawyers, reported The Economic Times, while AZB & Partners, Khaitan & Co and both erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas co-managing partner Shroff brothers have lost dominance.

AZB & Partners overtook Khaitan & Co, and the split firms of Amarchand Mangaldas, on data provider Mergermarket’s M&A leader board this year, where the combined deal value of the Amarchand Mangaldas firms would have led the value rankings by a margin of $4bn.

The details of the transaction has been removed since initial publication at the request of JSA.

Every year, law firms send out creative electronic (and paper) cards celebrating the festival of lights. This year, we’ve collected a few of the larger firms’ greetings that have found their way into our inbox.

Khaitan & Co acted for Reliance Telecommunications in its acquisition of the wireless business of J Sagar Associates (JSA)-advised Sistema Shyam Teleservices for Rs 2,100 crore of equity, while also taking on Rs 2,400 crore of Sistema’s debt to the government.

Delhi based lawyer Abhay Vohra, who went independent from big law firms a year ago, advised CL Educate on acquiring 51 percent stake in education consulting company Accendre Knowledge Management, which was advised by its in-house legal team.