Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Khaitan & Co, and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co are advising Reliance Industries and its media subsidiary Viacom18 on a planned $8.5 billion media merger with Walt Disney’s Star India.

Law firms Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and AZB & Partners have advised on the Indian aspects of Qatar Investment Authority’s $1 billion investment in Reliance Retail Ventures, the retail arm of Reliance Industries.

U.S giant Amazon’s face-off against India’s Reliance over Future Retail has grabbed attention in India and beyond. Amazon, eager to make a dent in India — one of the world’s fastest-growing retail markets, is now locked in a protracted, complex legal battle of more than a year with Future, stalling its $3.4 billion sale to Reliance, owned by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani. After colourful courtroom exchanges, in early March both companies agreed to hold discussions to resolve their dispute, but these too appear to have failed. All the while, lawyers are eagerly watching the developments unfold.

Khaitan & Co, AZB & Partners and K Law have advised Reliance New Energy Solar (RNESL) and Reliance Industries (RIL) on RNESL’s 36-billion-rupee ($489 million) acquisition of stake in Sterling & Wilson Solar which was represented by Desai & Diwanji.

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has issued an emergency ruling in favour of Amazon.com, putting on hold conglomerate Reliance Industries’ bid to acquire Indian’s Future Retail.

AZB & Partners has advised Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management on its agreement to invest 252 billion rupees ($3.7 billion) in Reliance Industries’ telecom tower assets, with Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas advising the sellers.

AZB & Partners, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Khaitan & Co have advised Indian oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries and its subsidiaries on its $312 million acquisition of a 66 percent stake in local cable TV and Internet service providers Den Networks.