Vaish Associates

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate partners Ashwath Rau and Aysswarya Murthi acted for the Macquarie Group in the sale of its 50 per cent holding in Religare Macquarie Wealth Management to joint venture partner Religare Enterprises, which was advised by Vaish Associates corporate and banking partner Sandhya Iyer.

The JV exit was signed on 29 August and closed on 26 November 2013 [VCCircle]. Religare is a long-loyal client of Vaish, while Macquarie has used a number of Indian firms in the past, though Amarchand had set up the Religare JV for the Australian banking giant between 2007 and 2008.

His firm mourns OP Vaish’s death, who passed away this morning after heart bypass surgery and a brief illness.

Vaish Associates advised pre-school network Brainworks Learning Systems and its investor Kusumbala Investments in selling out for Rs 5 crore ($824,810) to pre-school network Tree House Education & Accessories. Tree House was advised by Wadia Ghandy.

Vaish Associates Mumbai corporate and banking partner Sandhya Iyer with senior associate Yatin Narang and associate Ishita Roy acted for Brainworks which, according to Business Standard, has 13 self-operated and 51 franchisee centres all over India.

Wadia Ghandy Ahmedabad partner Tanvish Bhatt with senior associate Shreya Desai acted for Tree House which will now have 450 centres across India, reported the paper.

Big project M&A in the project space with Desai & Diwanji and Amarchand, while a project finance take-out scheme keeps Dhir busy.

No new partners in Vaish's annual promotions this year-end, but five new principal associates and eight new senior associates.

Seth Dua & Associates bags three new partners in competition, TMT & tax.

Vaish Associates and Crawford Bayley advised Delhi-based liquor firm Globus Spirits in raising Rs 70 crore ($13m) from Templeton Strategic Emerging Markets Fund IV LDC (TSEM) which was advised by BMR Legal's new hire from Desai & Diwanji.

This week’s instructions starring: Amarchand Mangaldas, AZB & Partners, Khaitan & Co, Vaish Associates, Talwar Thakore & Associates, Desai & Diwanji and Khaitan Sud & partners, with Linklaters, Cleary Gotlieb and WongPartnership

Vaish Associates advised auto-parts maker Amtek India in raising Rs 375 crore ($70mn) through issue of 2.5 per cent foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCB). Linklaters and Trilegal advised the Singapore-incorporated DBS bank which was the guarantor, and the bank’s Indian branch which was the lead manager in the issue.

Vaish Associates Delhi partner Satwinder Singh with principal associates Manish Tully and Sushma Mathur and associate Sougata Kundu acted for Amtek India, which issued FCCB convertible at Rs 103.005 per equity share of the company according to Post Jagran.

Trilegal Mumbai partner Srinivas Parthasarthy with senior associate Anil Choudhary and associates Priyanka Kumar and Smriti Bahety, and Linklaters Singapore counsel Aditya Shroff acted for DBS Bank India and Singapore.

The issue, raised on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), is Amtek’s second round of FCCB-fund raising in less than six months. Vaish Associates also advised the company in the first round in April 2012, when funds worth Rs 650 crore ($130m) were raised on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Last month’s largest deals and the legal advisers that guided and benefited from them.

Fourteen law firms kept busy in a sideways economy with 14 deals in corporate, private equity and banking and finance. Find out what the industry has been up to.

Senior associate and partner promotions at 5 firms, including three new partners HSA Advocates, one partner promotion at Bhasin & Co, two new Vaish senior associates, one MV Kini partner and two FoxMandal laterals and 10 senior-level associates.

Amarchand goes down under for $1.3bn GVK coal mine buy with Minters, Cliffords; Ex-AZBer’s Vishnu gets busy with Credit Suisse; Vaish hits the capital markets; JSA, KhaiCo, Amarchand disinvest in NYSE-Co; Amarchand restructures Alstom; and Naik gets a John Doe order.

Exclusive: Vaish Associates Delhi-based senior associate Sachit Jolly will relocate to Mumbai to start the firm’s direct tax law practice in Mumbai.

Exclusive: Clients have been most impressed with associates at S&R Associates and Vaish Associates, according to a survey from consultancy RSG India, as Amarchand Mangaldas and AZB & Partners topped a ranking of Indian best law firms.

In the last year Indian law firms also grew lawyer headcounts by an average of 20 per cent while partner numbers only increased by 5 per cent.

Vaish Associates Advocates and Hyderabad-based law firm Harish Kumar & Associates have advised on French company De Dietrich Process Systems’ acquisition of Nile Limited’s glass-lined equipment and pressure vessels division business for Rs 58.5 crore in a slump sale.

Vaish Associates has advised on IFCI Venture Capital Funds’ Rs 30 crore ($6.75m) private equity investment in Delhi-based consumer durable goods company Amber Enterprises.