Ernst & Young (EY) director of fraud investigation and dispute services Ajay Upadhyay has joined AZB & Partners in Mumbai.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai associate partner Abhay Sharma will join Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in Mumbai.

Four Bangalore-based associates from Dua Associates and K Law have started up the law firm Spectrum Legal in Bangalore.

Former Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla senior associate Faizal Latheef joined Kochhar & Co as a partner in its Dubai corporate practice.

Former DH Law Associates partner Vikas Kumar will join Lakshmikumaran Sridharan (LKS) as a partner in its Mumbai corporate practice tomorrow.

Dina Wadia and Shivpriya Nanda have been elected unopposed to become the J Sagar Associates (JSA)’s first joint managing partners.

Hammurabi & Solomon Mumbai head and equity partner Vidya Adsule, who had merged her practice with the firm in March 2014, has left it in August 2015.

Delhi and Mumbai firm DMD Advocates has promoted principal associate Tushar Jarwal to partnership on 28 August in the tax group of the firm.

DSK Legal managers Hemang Parekh, Pragya Dhamija and Chandrima Mitra have been promoted to associate partner while no full partners were made this year, reported Bar & Bench.

Parekh and Dhamija specialise in corporate, while Mitra focuses on media and entertainment.

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Kalpana Merchant is leaving to pursue opportunities on her own, confirmed AZB senior partner Bahram Vakil today.

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Shuva Mandal has resigned from the firm and will join Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in Mumbai.

Legal diversity NGO Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access’ (IDIA) Mumbai chapter organised the second season of the IDIA Football League (IFL) on 5 and 6 September at Kamla Mills Ground in Lower Parel, Mumbai. Star TV’s legal team bested Trilegal to win the tournament.

According to a press release from the Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM), yesterday was “an important day for the firm” after it has announced the “newly formed CAM governance structure for the practice areas, the constitution of various committees” which will be effective immediately and “form the framework that will help us move towards the aspirations we have set for ourselves”.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai capital markets partner Kaushik Mukherjee has resigned from the firm to join BMR Legal, reported Bar & Bench . CORRECTION: The earlier report erroneously stated that Mukherjee would join BMR. Mukherjee has clarified that “the statement that I have accepted an off...

When 28 years after its birth, India’s most-diversified financial institution that’s not a bank, Bajaj Finance, looked inward, it realised it was short of a legal team comparable to the company’s overall size and rate of diversification. The company’s legal department was understaffed: a total of six in-house lawyers present to handle the documentation and litigation arising out of a portfolio of 11 non-banking financing (NBFC) businesses.

Read how the company hired Sapan Gupta from Standard Chartered and began its facelift.

Amity Delhi 2011 alumni Abhinav Hansaria, Archit Virmani and Tushar John started up corporate law firm Optimus Legal in Delhi, in May.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised the promoters of Astec LifeSciences on selling 45 per cent of their stake in it to Godrej Agrovet which was advised by Trilegal. JSA Mumbai partner Vikram Raghani, senior associates Anand Lakra and Birbahadur Sachar and consultant Avinash Jethwani acted for Astec. Tr...

Hammurabi & Solomon opened in Patna on 24 August, adding its fourth national office in addition to Delhi, Mumbai and Ranchi.

Former Reliance Industries (RIL) senior in house counsel Rahul Dutt has joined Khaitan & Co as a corporate partner in Mumbai. The GLC Mumbai and University of Leicester UK alumnus Dutt, who was with RIL for over 13 years, commented in Khaitan’s press release: “I have been considering joining a ...

Senior Mumbai Trilegal partner Amit Tambe will leave the firm.