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AZB Partner Shreyas Jayasimha quits to set up Aarna Law







KPMG friend Advaita poaches ex-LKS Madhav Rao from consultant best-friend BMR Legal

BMR, KPMG partners set up tax firm ‘close’ to KPMG





Behind the scenes: How 90+ lawyers & 3 judges created the biggest free speech judgment in more than half a century

Kingfisher with Agarwal Law, Manu Singhvi loses in SC appeal to UBI, advised by Verus, Rohatgi





ALMT, Bharucha on UK testing lab Exova's India buy

Sand Hill, ALMT merge TimesDeal with Coupon Dunia





The end of an era (live & summarised): Amarchand Mangaldas split now official [CYRIL AFFIDAVIT & PRESS RELEASE]







BMS, Cipla may settle patent row amicably

Pfizer gets one more relief from IPAB













Muted expectations from task force on trade gap

India to press for moderate tariff liberalization, hybrid template





AZB, Desai & D, Khaitan Cal-Del organise Bandhan Rs 1,020 cr investment by IFC, GIC

Indus, Luthra, AZB, Themis bed down $24m VC investment into online hotel aggregator OYO Rooms

Trilegal, AZB act on Canadian $1.5m Delhi medical research company buy



Bharucha ramps up with 3 lateral partners: Ex-Amarchand Vandana Pai, NDA’s Shafaq Sapre, SuriCo’s Arjun Anand

Bharuchas bag first Indian M&A mandate for Twitter Inc in $30m buy of ZipDial with AZB Bangalore

ALMT, Bharucha on UK testing lab Exova's India buy



SILF prez Lalit Bhasin: Sudden entry of foreign firms would 'damage profession irretrievably'

Why foreign law firms are most likely to enter India now (or never): An investigation into the realities of legal policy, lobbying & backroom talks.













KPMG friend Advaita poaches ex-LKS Madhav Rao from consultant best-friend BMR Legal.

BMR wins for Shell, as BHC follows Vodafone transfer pricing precedent.





























JSA bags mandate for Anil Ambani defence sortie with Reliance $130m Pipavav purchase opposite K Law, Crawford Bayley.

DSK, Crawford on Indo-French food & beverage JV.





AZB, Desai & D, Khaitan Cal-Del organise Bandhan Rs 1,020 cr investment by IFC, GIC

Desai & D, Luthra act on sale of NH-11 road for Rs 525 crore





DSK Legal & Harish Salve win speedy Bombay HC bail for Salman Khan after 5 years sentence for driving drunk without licence & killing [UPDATE-5]

Delhi HC gets 6 new seniors: Mohit Mathur, KK Manan, Rekha Palli, ex-DSK Balbir Singh, Mukul Talwar, Vivek Sood

DSK, Crawford on Indo-French food & beverage JV



Jyoti Sagar (retd) assists firm he founded on PepsiCo's VBL deal opposite Dua

Dua promotes 3 to equity partner, 1 to non-equity





ELP promotes Vinayak Burman to partner, 6 to associate partner, 14 associates

ELP, Samvad do early-stage ad-tech investment

ELP, A&M act in Rs 60 cr Tano Capital microfinance investment



The end of an era (live & summarised): Amarchand Mangaldas split now official [CYRIL AFFIDAVIT & PRESS RELEASE]















Compat rejects ex-AI director plea to kill Jet-Etihad merger with LEXport, DSK, Salve & others







HSA replaces AZB, (Cyril) Amarchand assists on messy $1bn Lanco-Adani Udupi Power buy

Trilegal of counsel Sakya Chaudhuri moves to HSA as partner

HSA hires ex-JSA partner Abeezar Faizullabhoy



















Now official: Akshay Chudasama resigns JSA to be Shardul Amarchand Mumbai managing partner

Shardul Amarchand, JSA, Khaitan act on Rs 2,000 cr Temasek Avantha buy

JSA, Rajani Singhania steer FIPB-free Japanese pharma buy after DIPP note



Jyoti Sagar’s K&S promotes 4 to equity partner, gets new patents chair















Bombay HC issues criminal contempt on Mirror for reporting what happened in court & ‘caricature’







Seth Dua, Pratibha Singh in court-ordered mediation for Santa Banta jokes vs Santa Banta movie with Karanjawala, TMT, Mine & Young

ELP, Karanjawala win for Next Radio, MBPL in compulsory licence challenge

Karanjawala promotes Samarjeet Pattnaik to partnership in criminal lit



AZB, Desai & D, Khaitan Cal-Del organise Bandhan Rs 1,020 cr investment by IFC, GIC

Khaitan bags $4bn mandate for iGate in CapGem takeover [UPDATE: Luthra acting for Capgemini ]

KhaitanCo mammoth associate promotion round: 30 new principal associates, 28 new seniors



Kochhar opens in Dubai with ambitious plans after cutting local best friendships

IndusLaw, Kochhar, MoFo + 8 law firms bag Softbank $627m injection into Snapdeal [UPDATE-1]

Amarchand Delhi acts for Sumitomo on Rs 200 cr buy of Kochhar-client Carzonrent



Calcutta property deal keeps LKS, Jalan, Khaitan busy, leaves Jones Lang optimistic

Khare partner Abir Roy joins LKS as joint partner

Lakshmikumaran goes global: Opens full-time Geneva office to tap developing world’s WTO work



Delhi IP firm LexOrbis opens in Bangalore

LexOrbis win interim trademark injunction for FDCI against Global Lex Legal for Jabong

IP boutique LexOrbis promotes 4 to partner: Dodd, Kumar, Ameya Singh, Sriniwas











Luthra MA Siddharth Srivastava joins Link Legal as partner

Mass exodus: K Law poaches Link Legal partners Ajay Sawhney, Gautham Srinivas & team of 10 to kick off in Delhi

Delhi Airport’s ‘meaningful’, unusual & low-tax $290m high-yield bond issue: 5 law firms advise



Indus, Luthra, AZB, Themis bed down $24m VC investment into online hotel aggregator OYO Rooms

Amarchand, Luthra on record Daiichi $3.2bn block sale of Sun Pharma shares

Khaitan bags $4bn mandate for iGate in CapGem takeover [UPDATE: Luthra acting for Capgemini ]











Ambani, via Mulla & Mulla, serves Bhushan's junior, Google with legal notice over blog

Haigreve Khaitan, Mulla win Ambani bros mandates to slap defamation notices on Gas Wars authors, printers, publishers





Bombay HC refuses Naik Naik, Anurag Kashyap relief over 'smoking is bad for you' pop-up warnings

Naik becomes best friends with int’l firm Lawrence Graham (LG)





Trilegal, Nishith Desai act on $20m Caspian Impact Investment debt financing

Samvad, ARA, NDA, Themis on Tiger Global, Sequoia's $15m PE into Moonfrog

Nishith Desai Deals in brief: Semi-mysterious $2.7bn Cognizant US M&A with NDA | €730m Alstom-Triton | Everything else that’s been happening in corporate deal world



CCI fines 14 top car makers Rs 2,554 cr, but where will battery of lawyers inevitably appeal to?

P&A wins again for MCX v Amarchand over NSE’s Rs 50 cr dominance abuse in Compat

Pathak Associates, Nishith Desai on Cognizant's US digital video acquisition











Desai & Diwanji stalwarts Monika Deshmukh, Vihang Virkar to defect to E&Y-affiliate PDS Legal

ELP, LKS, PDS, Global Legal win service tax relief for Bharti, E&Y, Ultratech, others in DHC





Phoenix boosts Delhi disputes, hires KSP partner Debarshi Dutta plus 2

Phoenix Legal follows clients, nests in Chennai with first non-founding office

Phoenix partnership adds 50%: KSP partners Mrinal Ojha & Trinath Tadakamalla join, Kartikeya Singh promoted



Over half-dozen law firms bag mandates in Mylan Inc buying Famy contraceptives for $800m

Platinum promotes Piusha Bose to partnership in Mumbai, to grow to 9 partners

Platinum scoops MNK, ex-Luthra partner Nivedita Tiwari



























JSA, Rajani Singhania steer FIPB-free Japanese pharma buy after DIPP note

Rajani Singhania, Trilegal on Apna Paisa financial portal merger

Khaitan Sud partner Preeti Balwani joins Rajani Singhania as partner



CCI fines 14 top car makers Rs 2,554 cr, but where will battery of lawyers inevitably appeal to?







Naveen Goel, Remfry Sagar advise on ad giant M&C Saatchi’s India acquisition







S&R Rajat Sethi follows Bhagat, moves from Delhi to Mumbai in corp drive

TTA scoops $1bn R-Com deal with S&R, Jones Day for banks

S&R, Amarchand on Bertelsmann, Norwest $15m infusion into Pepperfry



Saikrishna assembles with AZB, TTA-Dhall to secure Avengers Age of Ultron release over digital projection CCI complaint

SC extends stay of HC order banning cricket world cup feed from Doordarshan on cable





Samvad, ARA, NDA, Themis on Tiger Global, Sequoia's $15m PE into Moonfrog

Samvad + Indus double-team $15m Nexus PE in hotel booking site

Samvad promotes two to partnership



Seth Dua, Pratibha Singh in court-ordered mediation for Santa Banta jokes vs Santa Banta movie with Karanjawala, TMT, Mine & Young







Singh & Singh, Chander Lall & Sethi to merge into 27-lawyer IP firm







Talwar Thakore Associates hikes fresher pay to Rs 13 L (or Rs 18 L with rare top-end bonus)

Tata Steel’s $3.05bn loan financing draws in Links with TTA, JSA with slaughters

TTA scoops $1bn R-Com deal with S&R, Jones Day for banks



Saikrishna assembles with AZB, TTA-Dhall to secure Avengers Age of Ultron release over digital projection CCI complaint















Trilegal, AZB act on Canadian $1.5m Delhi medical research company buy

Trilegal scoops senior (Shardul) Amarchand corp partner Ravindra Bandhakavi [UPDATE-2]

Trilegal, Nishith Desai act on $20m Caspian Impact Investment debt financing



Amarchand Mangaldas, Vaish on $852m UltraTech buy of JP cement plants

Vaish, Amarchand on $1.5bn Jaiprakash hydropower project sale to JSW

7 new Delhi senior counsel: Vaish head Ajay Vohra + 6 others



























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