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Khaitan & Co

23 June 2010
Khaitan & Co has advised on the setting up of two domestic venture capital (VC) funds iPro Capital Private Equity Trust and Subhkam Growth Fund, with each planning to raise approximately Rs 100 crores in various sectors under their maiden schemes.
27 May 2010

car-electric-reva-by-revanorgeKhaitan & Co has advised India's largest utility vehicle maker in acquiring Bangalore electric car manufacturer REVA Electric Car Company, which was advised by Trilegal.

27 May 2010
Crawford Bayley sold 350,000 square foot of client Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Company (BDMC)'s real estate complex in Parel to Khaitan & Co client Axis Bank for around $170m.
27 May 2010
Khaitan & Co has acted opposite PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) in the sale of Blue Star's 24 per cent-owned ventilation subsidiary to Swedish company Systemair AB.
16 April 2010

Bombay-stock-exchange-tickerAmarchand Mangaldas picked up almost one third of 33 initial public offering (IPO) mandates in the first quarter of 2010, while Crawford Bayley, J Sagar Associates (JSA), Luthra & Luthra and Khaitan & Co together bagged another 40 per cent of instructions.

08 April 2010
Khaitan & Co scooped another Blackstone mandate in the private equity house's Rs 225 crore ($51m) investment in newspaper publisher Jagran Media, which was advised by Luthra & Luthra. Simpson Thacher was the international legal counsel to Blackstone.
05 April 2010

Mumbai_gatewayKhaitan & Co has promoted Mumbai associates Joy Jacob, Ashwin Mathew and Savita Singh to its partnership and announced associate bonuses of as much as 90 per cent of annual salaries at the top end.

02 April 2010

steam_rollers_road_buildingKhaitan & Co Mumbai has hired J Sagar Associates (JSA) retained partner and infrastructure projects specialist Amitabh Sharma into its partnership, which is the third lateral partner hire the firm completed yesterday (1 April).

01 April 2010

Khaitan - AsimAbbasKhaitan & Co has bolted on Delhi technology media and telecommunications (TMT) practice start-up Legal Spectrums and its founder Asim Abbas as a partner and  has hired two lawyers from telecoms major BT's offshore legal centre in Gurgaon.

24 March 2010

mauritius-jetty-by_timparkinsonKhaitan & Co has won a landmark order from the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) for the firm's client E*trade Mauritius (ETM) to obtain tax exemptions under the India-Mauritius Tax Treaty on capital gains accrued from a sale of shares it held in an IL&FS investment.

09 March 2010

Khaitan-co-Dr-PK-AgrawalKhaitan & Co has hired ex-bureaucrat and lawyer Dr PK Agrawal as partner to head its real estate practice in Delhi.

24 February 2010
Khaitan & Co is the domestic counsel for Mahindra Forgings Limited and Jones Day Singapore the international legal advisors to the qualified institutional placement (QIP) filed by Mahindra & Mahindra owned forging and auto component company.
03 February 2010
Khaitan & Co and Naik Naik & Co have advised multiplex owner INOX Leisure in acquiring  a 43.28 per cent stake of the promoter group of rival multiplex chain Fame India for Rs 66.34 crore.
03 February 2010

Call CentreKhaitan & Co has picked up the Indian mandate to advise private equity group Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on the $440m purchase of legal process outsourcing company CPA Global, alongside a raft of international firms.

20 January 2010

factory-abandoned_by-Maximo_lopezKhaitan & Co and Wadhwa Group's in-house counsel have closed Mumbai's largest land deal of the year, in the 18.18-acre land purchase in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai from Hindustan Composites (HCL) for Rs 571 crore ($125m).

19 January 2010

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Amarchand Mangaldas has significantly expanded its lead in the qualified institutional placement (QIP) stakes, acting on eight out of 18 QIPs filed in the third quarter of 2009. AZB & Partners and Khaitan & Co bagged three mandates each, with J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Crawford Bayley picking up two each.
13 January 2010

M&A League tablesDesai & Diwanji acted on 24 M&A deals in the 2009 calendar year, placing it at the top of data provider mergermarket's M&A league table by volume. Amarchand Mangaldas topped the table by value, having advised on M&A deals worth $6.4bn in 2009, while Khaitan & Co and AZB & Partners also gave a strong showing.

12 January 2010

Bombay-stock-exchange-tickerIn December 2009 Luthra & Luthra slipped past Khaitan & Co into second place in the initial public offering (IPO) league tables after acting on three IPOs with Khaitan bagging two instructions. Crawford Bayley took three deals and drew level with AZB & Partners as the fourth busiest Indian IPO firm, while Amarchand Mangaldas built up its lead with five mandates.

17 December 2009

pills-by-blmurchCrawford Bayley and Khaitan & Co have advised on the $400m (Rs 1,900 crore) takeover of listed Chennai pharmaceutical company Orchid Chemical & Pharmaceutical by US pharma major Hospira.

11 December 2009

Bombay-stock-exchange-tickerIn November Amarchand Mangaldas' Bangalore office bagged a role in four out of six initial public offerings (IPOs), and together with one instruction from Delhi has extended its lead in the top spot of the IPO league tables over Khaitan & Co, Luthra & Luthra and AZB & Partners.