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Tata Sons

14 June 2019

Five in-house lawyers in Tata Sons’ legal team, which is headed by former Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas partner Shuva Mandal, have moved to other companies in in-house positions over the last year, Bar & Bench has reported.

01 June 2018

Trilegal counsel Shashank Jain joined as joined Vistara (Tata Sia Airlines) as head legal effective today.

03 May 2018

Intel senior attorney Poornima Sampath (NLSIU Bangalore 2002), Piramal Bain’s former head legal Supriya Bhardwaj (GLC Mumbai 2004) and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas principal associate Sayak Maity have joined Tata Sons, reported Bar & Bench.

30 January 2018

Tata Sons former general counsel (GC) Bharat Vasani, has completed the handover of reins at India’s largets conglomerate’s parent company, and will be retiring from tomorrow.

02 January 2018

GLC Mumbai 2007 alumnus Nitin Jain has joined his GLC senior Archana Balasubramanian's four-year-old start-up Agama Law Associates as managing partner, having left his role as in-house counsel at Tata Chemicals.

23 May 2017

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai partner Shuva Mandal is set to become the top general counsel (GC) of Tata Sons, the holding company of India’s largest conglomerate, replacing its long-serving GC Bharat Vasani, according to two authoritative sources.

23 May 2017

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai partner Shuva Mandal is set to become the top general counsel (GC) of Tata Sons, the holding company of India’s largest conglomerate, replacing its long-serving GC Bharat Vasani, according to two authoritative sources.

09 December 2016

Delhi high court Justice Rajiv Endlaw has ordered three internet service providers (ISPs) to find out the identities behind 35 email accounts and three IP addresses that had allegedly been used a year ago to send allegedly defamatory emails about a Tata Motors Insurance Broking & Advisory Services chief executive Tarun Samant, as reported Mint and others.

25 October 2016

Tata Sons’ former chairman Cyrus Mistry, who was unexpectedly fired from the organisation on Monday, has reportedly decided to approach the Bombay high court challenging his dismissal, although we understand that no case has been filed yet.

19 July 2011

The Kolkata High Court proceedings in the Tata Motors Singur matter that were disrupted earlier today resumed with Tata’s counsel making the company’s intent of using the Singur land for alternate investment clear to the court. 

14 July 2010

Coal-fire_by-Marcus_VegasAZB & Partners advised close client Tata Power in raising $300m by selling up to 15 per cent in two of its Indonesian coal-assets-owning special purpose vehicles (SPVs) Bhira Investments and Bhivpuri Investments to private equity house Olympus Capital Holdings Asia, which Desai & Diwanji and US firms Milbank Tweed and Purrington Moody Weil advised.

27 November 2009

tatasteel_plant_thAmarchand Mangaldas and AZB & Partners capital markets teams have sewn up Tata Steel's $493m (Rs 2,550 crore) convertible bond swap, marking the third joint instruction for the firms on similar deals in the past half-year.

11 September 2009

mobile_phone_tower-by-Kiwanja_thDesai & Diwanji has scored the first instruction for the merged Tata Quippo towers business, after having originally advised Quippo Telecom on its joint venture (JV) with Tata Teleservices, which was advised by AZB & Partners.

31 July 2009

mail_at_triAfter a near-hiatus for almost one year the IPO pipeline has finally filled up this July. No company wants to be left behind by the cheap cash-for-equity gravy train, the gold rush now appears to be self-sustaining – at least for the time being.

The distribution of spoils among Indian law firms is likely to be less even-handed.

29 July 2009

tatasteel_plant_thTata Steel has selected an identical roster of firms to advise on its latest fundraising in London, with Amarchand Mangaldas, Talwar Thakore Associates, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy reprising their roles from the monster 2008 Corus acquisition-related rights issue.