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AZB, Khaitan assist major acquisition by Schneider and Temasek
AZB & Partners advised Schneider Electric, and Khaitan & Co advised MacRitchie Investments, an investment holding company of Temasek Holdings, when the two companies partnered to acquire Larsen & Toubro’s electrical and automation business...
ICICI Lombard acquisition boosts insurer’s market strength
AZB & Partners advised ICICI Lombard General Insurance on its acquisition of the non-life insurance business of Bharti AXA General Insurance through a share swap deal.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) advised Bharti AXA General Insurance...
TTA represents Swiggy in antitrust win
Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) represented Swiggy, a food ordering and delivery platform that has raised US$1.6 billion since it was set up in 2014, when the Competition Commission of India (CCI) recently dismissed...
Embassy Group subsidiaries to merge with Indiabulls
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (SAM) advised the Embassy Group on the proposed merger of the assets of two of its subsidiaries – NAM Estates and Embassy One Commercial Property Developments – with Indiabulls Real Estate.
SAM...
The Law Point promotes lawyers in New Delhi, Mumbai
The Law Point (TLP) has promoted Abhishek Puri and Omprakash Jha to the firm's partnership in its New Delhi and Mumbai offices, respectively.Puri joined the firm in 2017 and is experienced in corporate and...
A cut above the rest
India Business Law Journal reveals its leading foreign firms for India work. Vandana Chatlani reports
Life has changed dramatically, and so, too, the process of law and business. Disruption, doubts, and delays caused by the...
GMR stake sale to Groupe ADP closes on amended terms
S&R Associates and Hogan Lovells advised France’s Groupe ADP (formerly Aéroports de Paris) on its acquisition of an aggregate 49% stake in GMR Airports for ₹107.8 billion (US$1.4 billion). Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co...
Carlyle continues India investment with Nxtra stake
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and L&L Partners advised entities within the Carlyle Group when it agreed to acquire a 25% stake in Bharti Airtel's data centre arm, Nxtra Data.
Bharti Airtel, which will retain the remaining...
Keeping competitors at bay
Parties must take care not to have unreasonable or one-sided non-compete clauses in agreements, as these can be rendered ineffective by the courts, writes Kunal Mehta
It is well-settled law that a non-compete obligation in...
L&L advises sellers of Odisha stake to Adani Power
L&L Partners advised AES India and AES OPGC Holding, both subsidiaries of New York-listed AES Corporation, when the two companies signed agreements for the US$135 million sale of their 49% stake in Odisha Power...
Labour market collusion: New frontier for antitrust?
Competition concerns and harm typically arise in the context of goods and services. However, these concerns can also arise in labour markets in case of collusion among competing employers, the anti-competitive effects of mergers...
CCI gives green light to Fiat-Peugeot merger
Trilegal advised Peugeot and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (SAM) advised Fiat Chrysler Automobiles when the Competition Commission of India (CCI) gave its go-ahead on 4 June for the first merger filing of two...
Jio-Facebook deal: Competition in jeopardy?
On 23 April, the Indian market saw one of its biggest deals go off. Facebook bought a 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms for a whopping US$5.7 billion. With Jio attracting the largest FDI deal...
Slowing the free fall
Taking stock of the relief measures deployed by regulators to soften the impact of the lockdown. Gautam Kagalwala reports
With the COVID-19 outbreak, the government has been fighting on two fronts. It has introduced a...
Indian Law Firm Awards 2020
And the winners are ... Rebecca Abraham reports
Companies and law firms across India have been grappling with a global pandemic in what was already a challenging market, and are now facing an economic downturn....
Competition and COVID-19: Compliance for businesses
Competition authorities worldwide including in the UK, the US, Australia and the EU have responded swiftly to the unprecedented situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In India, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has...
Brands adopt stronger enforcement strategies
Over the past few years, with the rise in counterfeiting and trademark infringement cases, the need for and the awareness of enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) has also increased. Since the target consumer...
2019 was a significant year in competition law
2019 marks a decade of enforcement by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), following the notification in 2009 of the antitrust provisions of the Competition Act, 2002 (act). Despite challenges to its jurisdiction and...
Blue sky thinking
The competition regulator has over the years allowed companies to undertake innovative commitments to enable their mergers to go through, writes Soumya Hariharan of Trilegal.
In the past nine years, the merger regime in India...
Deals of the Year 2019
India Business Law Journal reveals the most significant deals and disputes of 2019 and the law firms that worked tirelessly to bring them to fruition
The best transactions for the past year in India came...
