Corporate
ELP adds to direct tax practice with ex-Dhruva, KPMG, PwC partner Saumil Shah + team
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has expanded its direct tax practice, hiring chartered accountant and Dhruva Advisors partner Saumil Shah as a director in Mumbai.
AZB Mumbai financial services partner Anu Tiwari to leave
AZB & Partners Mumbai-based financial services partner Anu Tiwari is leaving the firm.
SAM picks up rare environment law partner Nawneet Vibhaw from Khaitan
Khaitan & Co environment law practice partner Nawneet Vibhaw has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) in Delhi as a partner.
VC boutique Algo forays into disputes, hires indie litigator Namitha Mathews as Delhi partner
Until-now pureplay corporate and private equity / venture capital boutique Algo Legal has expanded its service lines into litigation with the hire of Namitha Mathews as a partner in Delhi.
‘Bullish’ Khaitan moves to 350-seat office from Delhi to Noida • In Bangalore shifts to client WeWork with double capacity for 150
Khaitan & Co has moved into a managed offices in Bengaluru operated by its client WeWork, with a seating capacity of 150, which is nearly double its current local headcount; in the National Capital Region (NCR) it has relocated to a state-of-the-art but more traditional office space in Noida from Delhi.
KCo, SAM + CAM for Reliance on $3.38bn buy of Future retail, rep’d by Trilegal, Wadia G [UPDATE-1]
ELP equity Darshan Upadhyay + 3 corp partners Gada, Manubarwala, Pandya start up ‘acutely focused’ Stratage
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) equity partner Darshan Upadhyay and partners Shyam Pandya, Amit Manubarwala and Bhavin Gada, have started up a specialist corporate firm called Stratage Law Partners.
Samvad promotes 2 in Bangalore, grows to 16 partners
Samvād Partners has promoted Bangalore-based counsel Anisha Shroff and Siddharth Seshan to partner.
LKS boosts corporate with ex-Themis partner Amritha Salian, Oyo A-GC Gaurav Dayal
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) has hired Amritha Salian, who had been an associate partner at Themis Associates in Bangalore until June 2019, and Gaurav Dayal, who had been Gurgaon-based associate general counsel at the Oyo hotels group.
SAM acts doubly on blockbuster $300m Byju buy of code academy Whitehat Jr with Nishith Desai
Ashok Dhingra A’s co-founder Smita Singh joins Singh & A’s post ADA management change of guard
Ashok Dhingra Associates equity partner Smita Singh has joined Singh & Associates to head its indirect tax practice as a partner in Delhi.
Algo promotes Neha Madan to associate partner + 8 associates
HSA Cal partner, Argus co-founder Ramya Hariharan reboots Citadel Law in City of Joy
HSA Advocates partner Ramya Hariharan has re-started her briefly independent Kolkata-based law firm, Citadel Law Chambers, with five other fee-earners after four years at HSA.
Breakaway Anoma now 13 after adding K Law partner Vishal Bhat for South India property + debt push
Start-up law firm Anoma Legal, which had peeled off from K Law just over two years ago with seven partners, has now grown to 13 partners with Vishal Bhat joining from their alma mater.
Indus Mumbai poaches two partners from Algo: star duo Siddharth Manchanda, Minhaz Lokhandwala
IndusLaw has ramped up its Mumbai corporate offering significantly with the hire of two from Algo Legal who are due to join: partner Siddharth Manchanda and associate partner Minhaz Lokhandwala.
Indus opens equity beyond founders, promotes 8 into a new modified lockstep
Amit Jajoo (Mumbai; commercial litigation),Avik Biswas (Bengaluru; employment law, anti-bribery and anti-corruption),Lomesh Kiran Nidumuri (Bengaluru; civl and commercial disputes),Manan Lahoty (Mumbai; capital markets),Manish Gupta (Delhi, M&A, private equity),Mayank Mishra (Delhi; disputes),Nishant Singh (Mumbai; M&A, private equity, banking & finance, corporate) andSaurav Kumar (Delhi, M&A, private equity, corporate).
Ex-chambers AKS grows to 5 partners, starts corp practice with ex-SAM SA Anish Jaipuriar (NLUO ‘14)
Normal is the new exception: Trilegal rolls out annual PQE increments to all lawyers as usual • LKS freezes increments, bonuses
Sometimes doing what is normal is abnormal, especially so in the days of the coronavirus on the loose.
Kochhar adds 51st partner, new trade + tax head with long-time independent collaborator Reena Asthana Khair
Kochhar & Co has hired Reena Asthana Khair as senior partner and head of international trade and indirect tax.
Mahindra Lifespaces gets new legal head Parveen Mahtani from Tatas as Suhas Kulkarni steps up to GC
The Mahindra Group’s real estate and infrastructure development arm, Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Limited, has hired Parveen Mahtani as its chief legal officer, based in Mumbai.