Khaitan & Co has promoted a total of 22 principal associates and counsel to salaried partner positions.

Arcelor Mittal Mumbai-based vice president legal and effective regional general counsel Sapan Gupta, who had joined in January 2020 from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, has been promoted to group general counsel based in London, moneycontrol and others reported yesterday.

Trilegal will promote five counsel into its equity partnership, we authoritatively understand, growing its partnership to a total of 63.

As many firms had frozen salaries (or recently unfrozen them), Trilegal has paid out an unconditional one month’s extra salary to all fee-earners and staff, on top of expected usual performance-related bonus payments and scheduled PQE increments, two sources with knowledge of the move have confirmed.

Khaitan & Co adding VoxLaw managing partner Udayan Choksi as a partner in indirect tax.

Clifford Chance Singapore capital markets and India group partner Rahul Guptan is set to join White & Case, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.

2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate Debolina Saha had started Internship Bank in December 2019 as a non-profit initiative to provide internships in the Indian legal profession to women, which we had covered in April 2020.

The latest partner of L&L Partners, Nirupam Lodha, has quit and will be joining Khaitan & Co.

L&L Partner Damini Bhalla, who we had reported last week had resigned from the firm, is joining rapidly-growing food delivery unicorn Zomato as its general counsel (GC).

Former AZB & Partners Delhi capital markets partner Madhurima Mukherjee Saha had joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) in June 2020 as an independent senior consultant.

Khaitan & Co first-year associate and NLIU Bhopal 2020 graduate Devansh Srivastava has passed away early yesterday morning after a cardiac arrest.

White-collar crime and dispute resolution firm MZM Legal LLP has hired Mohammad Shine as a partner in its criminal litigation practice.

Jerome Merchant + Partners has hired Palash Gupta, India desk and international arbitration head of Collyer Law based in Manila, Philippines, and Singapore, to in turn head its international arbitration offering.

Following his resignation from L&L Partners in January, lateral capital markets partner Jitesh Shahani has joined S&R Associates as a partner in Mumbai.

Khaitan & Co will set up an office with two senior members next month to practice non-Singapore law and international arbitration.

Samvad Partners has hired Savani Gupte as a partner in Mumbai’s disputes team from Khaitan & Co, where she had been a principal associate.

Business-to-business (B2B) manufacturing platform Zetwerk has raised $120 million (Rs 880 crore) in a Series D funding round led by US-based Greenoaks Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The fundraising, which saw participation of Sequoia Capital and Kae Capital, values the company at around $6...

Algonomy Software has acquired 100% stake in Rich Relevance, Inc. and pursuant to this acquisition the shareholders of Rich Relevance, Inc. has acquired an equity stake in Algonomy Software, according to reports . Samvad Partners advised Algonomy Software Private Limited (formerly known as Manthan S...

The board of Garware Technical Fibres … approved a proposal for buyback of up to 3.17 lakh shares from all shareholders, including promoters and members of the promoter group, at ₹2,300 a share for an aggregate amount of about ₹73 crore. The buyback will be through the tender offer route, on a propo...

L&L Partners corporate partner Damini Bhalla has resigned from the firm.