Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has internally announced that the firm “hoped” that staff would “start coming back to work gradually, in a staggered manner” from 19 October.

Co-living startup ZoloStays has raised $56 million in a Series C round led by Investcorp, Nexus Ventures Partners, Mirae Assets and existing investor Trifecta Capital among others. — Mint Khaitan & Co advised Co-Living Parent Pte Ltd led by a core transaction team comprising of partner Vineet S...

The managing partner and 66.6% majority equity holder at L&L Partners, Rajiv Luthra, has made an offer to the firm that he would be willing to dilute his equity unilaterally and without the agreement or dilution of 33.4% co-partner Mohit Saraf under a 1999 deed, if the latter does not respond by 6pm today.

Algo Legal has laterally added another partner, Abhinav Bhalaik from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas - alongside Nishith Desai Associates’ Richie Sancheti.

Geeta Dhania , the remaining capital markets partner at L&L Partners immediately after the mass exodus of the team to IndusLaw, has resigned, reported Bar & Bench . Dhania had worked at Luthra & Luthra, as it then was, since graduating from NLSIU Bangalore in 2005. In 2015 she became ...

Algo Legal Delhi-based partner Jitender Tanikella has joined AZB & Partners in Mumbai as a counsel today, according to his Linked-in profile.

AZB & Partners has promoted GLC Mumbai 2010 graduate Punita Gupta to partner.

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) investment funds head, Richie Sancheti, who had been with the firm for 13 years, is due to join Algo Legal, we reliably understand.

Sumit Roy promoted at Alpha from associate partner A lpha Partners has promoted associate partner Sumit Roy , who is heading the firm’s disputes practice, to partner. The promotion of the 2010 IMS Law College Noida graduate takes effect from 1 October. He had joined the firm in 2013, with a stint at...

Kochhar & Co has hired two K Law Delhi partners - Pradeep Ratnam, who effectively headed its office in the city, and Parul Verma; both specialise in banking and finance.

Just before 3pm yesterday (Thursday, 24 September), all staff and fee-earners at L&L Partners received an email from managing partner Rajiv Luthra, announcing a virtual townhall for 5pm that day.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 84 associates to senior or principal associate level, with the majority of these - 58% - being based in the Delhi region, closely followed by Mumbai.

OYO Hotels & Homes has appointed former General Electric (GE) general counsel (GC) Tejal Patil has senior legal advisor for India and South Asia, as of 21 September.

Former AZB & Partners partner Anu Tiwari has joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas today in Mumbai.

A fundamental rift has opened up at L&L Partners over how its long-held promoter equity should be opened up and distributed to other partners in the firm.

S&R Associates has elected arbitration and litigation counsel Shahezad Kazi into its partnership.

Bharat Chugh goes from law firm to independent litigation L &L Partners Delhi-based litigation partner Bharat Chugh has left the firm to become an independent counsel. The 2011 Jamia LLB graduate had become a partner at L&L in 2018, two years after having joined the firm and after several ...

Facing heavy internal resistance after suggesting that staff should return from their hometowns where many had sheltered during the Covid-19 lockdowns, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) has changed course and scrapped the policy tonight, announcing it would continue working from home indefinitely.

In part, the firm has cited stronger billings than expected, though this doesn’t mean law firms are out of the woods.*

L&L Partners corporate transactional advisory partnership has paid out bonuses to fee-earners just a little behind schedule last week, though it notified its 44 fresh campus recruits that they would not be able to join the firm before 2021 as opposed to around this month (though a few of these have since joined - see update below).