Kochhar & Co partner Harry Chawla is set to join the new firm expected to be launched by Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff in Delhi.

Luthra & Luthra has hired two new Mumbai partners: ex-State Bank of India deputy general manager (law) Priyamvada Haridas in banking and finance, and Shinoj Koshy from Nishith Desai Associates in corporate, as reported by Bar & Bench . Haridas joined SBI from GLC Calicut after graduating i...

IndusLaw advised India’s largest taxi aggregator Ola Cabs, backed by Japan’s Softbank Corp, in raising $314m (Rs 1,952 crore) from Russian Yuri Milner’s DST Global which was advised by AZB & Partners and Goodwin Procter. Indus Delhi partner Gaurav Dani, senior associate Divya Varghese and assoc...

PKA Advocates partner Bhumesh Verma joined DGS Associates effective 1 February, joining as the first non-founding partner in the 10-year old Delhi firm, taking its partner count to three. He said that he joined with associate partner Vikas Gaur. Verma graduated from CLC Delhi in 1994 and was a partn...

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) advised alternate asset management firm Tano Capital on investing Rs 60 crore in India’s second NBFC microfinance institution Arohan which was advised by A&M Law Offices. ELP partner Suhail Naithani, associate partner Vinayak Burman, senior associate Archana Khosla ...

Link Legal partners Ajay Sawhney and Gautham Srinivas and their team of associates will be joining Krishnamurthy and Co with their team, according to three authoritative sources.

IndusLaw promoted Bangalore dispute resolution principal associate Lomesh Kiran Nidumuri to partnership, taking its partner count to 12 across all offices.

Getting the ratio of partners to non-partner fee-earners right has its rewards, but it is, at best, an inexact science.

Amarchand Mangaldas intellectual property (IP) partner Ranjan Negi, who relocated to Gurgaon from Delhi when it was opened in September of last year , will leave the firm. Delhi-region partner Pallavi Shroff said via email that Negi had resigned but that the IP practice would continue as before. Neg...

Induslaw advised internet and mobile-based classifieds company Quikr Mauritius Holding in raising $150m (over Rs 900 crore) from existing investors Tiger Global, eBay and Sweden’s Kinnevik, and new investor Steadview Capital Management, LTR and ABG Capital, which were advised by Morgan Lewis and Gun...

In what will possibly have been its last quarter of existing as a single firm, Amarchand Mangaldas again acted on the most valuable M&A deals though AZB & Partners emerged as the firm with the largest number of recorded transactions.

Rishi Anand, who started his own firm Gnarus Partners in 2012 after leaving Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi as a senior associate, will join the new Delhi office of Amarchand Mangaldas co-managing partner Cyril Shroff, who is set to compete with his brother Shardul Shroff in India’s capital, according to an authoritative source.

Nishith Desai Associates advised Caspian Impact Investments (CII) on its $20m debt financing from the US government’s development finance institution Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), which was advised by Trilegal. NDA Mumbai partner Nishchal Joshipura and associates Sahil Shah and Nik...

NLU Jodhpur bagged approximately 31 jobs for its fourth year class in Day Zero yesterday, including 13 pre-placement offers (PPOs), for 88 students.

Khaitan & Co associate partner Deepto Roy will join the firm to be started by Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Shardul Shroff in Mumbai.

Khaitan & Co associate partners Iqbal Khan in Mumbai and Harsh Kumar in Delhi have been poached by Amarchand Mangaldas co-managing partners Shardul and Cyril Shroff respectively, who are setting up offices in each others’ territories.

Khaitan & Company advised Snapdeal on India’s biggest acquisition in the e-commerce space yet – the $450m (Rs 2,800 crore) buy of mobile commerce platform Freecharge which was advised by AZB & Partners, reported Bar & Bench . Khaitan Bangalore Partner Abhilekh Verma acted for Snapdeal...

As promised, Trilegal has announced a massive pay hike to fresh graduates joining the firm, bumping up salaries to Rs 1.1 lakh per month excluding an optional annual bonus of up to Rs 2.2 lakh.

Amarchand Mangaldas partner Cyril Shroff is in advanced talks to take on the former Religare, GENPACT and GE Cap GC as a future Delhi partner.

Radhika Pereira, the founding partner of Dudhat Pereira & Associates, is set to join the upcoming Mumbai office of the expected Amarchand Mangaldas post-break-up firm of Shardul Shroff.