Khaitan & Co and Clifford Chance Hong Kong advised HSBC’s Hong Kong branch on its $30m term loan facility to the State Bank of India’s Shanghai branch for general corporate purposes. Khaitan banking partner Devidas Banerji (who joined the firm from CC in 2010 ) and Clifford Chance partner Matth...

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Kumar is the “key associate involved in all the patent matters” at Singh & Singh Law Firm LLP and has worked on cases in the pharmaceutical and technology fields, on matters such as the Novartis dispute and cases relating to fair, reasonable and non discriminatory (FRAND) patents, according to ...

Trilegal counsel Rachika Sahay has joined global oil and gas services company Weatherford as its sole legal counsel in India.

The markets are picking up it looks like – here’s the round-up of what firms have been getting up to.

Dua Associates has promoted three to equity partner and one to non-equity partner, reported Bar & Bench citing “reliable sources”. Dinesh Mathur and Vikram Dholakia were promoted in the litigation practice in Delhi, while Srinivas BR got the nod in Bangalore’s corporate practice. Senior associa...

A five-judge constitutional bench of CJI RM Lodha, AK Patnaik, Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya, Dipak Misra and FM Ibrahim Kalifulla has overruled the Supreme Court’s earlier Kone Elevators decision in a four-to-one majority against Kalifulla. The majority opinion, written by Misra, ruled that the sale ...

Fox Mandal Bangalore has acquired technology law firm White Forest Law Offices, which was started by Rajesh Vellakkat in 2002, to boost its tech and intellectual property expertise.

UK-headquartered magic circle firm Allen & Overy, which used to have a best friend relationship with Trilegal but gave up because it saw no prospect of the Indian legal market opening up, is set to open an office in Myanmar, which recently liberalised its economy, following Baker & McKenzi...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Bangalore partner Promod Nair has started an independent arbitration practice.

Khaitan Sud & Partners (KSP) partner Preeti Balwani is joining Rajani, Singhania & Partners in Mumbai on 12 May.

SNG & Partners has promoted senior associate Rahul Sud to associate partner, reported Bar & Bench. Sud, who specialises in corporate, finance and technology law, had joined SNG in 2009 after a Master’s from NUS Singapore and an undergraduate from Symbiosis Pune. [Bar & Bench]

Zeus will continue to be managed by Tandon’s brother-in-law Sunil Tyagi and partner Vivek Kohli.

Former Mulla & Mulla associate’s one-month old media law start up wins ‘sweeping’ injunction and costs for iconic singer Sonu Nigam against iconic singer Mika Singh.

Fox Mandal Noida projects partner Rajesh Sehgal has quit the firm to move in-house to Singapore, reported Bar & Bench , reducing the number of non-family partners at the firm to three - Swati Sinha, Jyoti Virmani and Veronica Mohan - after departures of corporate partners Dev Ashish Mishra and ...

Former MSD Pharmaceuticals and Yahoo India legal head Jaspreet Singh Chandhok started up intellectual property (IPR) and media law firm Win Law Group on 1 April, in Delhi and Mumbai.

Wadia Ghandy has promoted eight of its lawyers in Mumbai to partnership, including one 2008 NLIU Bhopal graduate and a 2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate.

Amarchand Mangaldas’ Mumbai has started a volume-focused transactional support practice, which the firm is continuing to trial hoping to offer clients better due diligence and commoditised advice.

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has promoted four women and three men to its partnership in London after Linklaters did the same earlier this month for the first time. Women still make up a minority of partners in UK firms but some firms, such as Herbert Smith Freehills, have recently introduced a...

Former KPMG partner Gautam Chemburkar joined Khaitan & Co as its first ever executive director strategy on 3 April.