Corporate

It’s official: Dua, ex-foreign firms lawyer is now Justice Senthil Kumar Ramamoorthy, India’s first ex-partner-judge

Dua Associates Chennai partner Senthil Kumar Ramamoorthy has now been confirmed and appointed as additional judge of the Madras high court.

Argus promotes Nidhi Arya (Symbi ‘08) as 18th partner, 4th in new larger Kolkata office

Argus Partners has promoted managing associate Nidhi Arya to partnership in its Kolkata office, as the firm’s fourth partner in the city.

Trilegal Mumbai co-founding partner Karan Singh to move to Bangalore

Mumbai-based Trilegal co-founder Karan Singh will relocate to Bangalore within the next four months.

IndusLaw moves to bigger Mumbai office, nabs 2-partner lit team from HSA: Amit Jajoo, Sushmita Gandhi

IndusLaw has moved into a larger Mumbai office and has worked at immediately filling the space: HSA Advocates litigation partners Amit Jajoo and Sushmita Gandhi will be joining with their team of six fee-earners.

Cyril Amarchand sets up incubator to mentor 3-4 legal tech start-ups to help both firm and ecosystem

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas is setting up a legal technology incubator in Delhi to entice three to four startups “that have the potential to meet real-world challenges” to be mentored by the firm, as first reported by Mint.

IndusLaw Mumbai partner Vivek Daswaney re-starts own boutique V Law

Vivek Daswaney, who had joined IndusLaw as a Mumbai partner in February 2017 from (pre-Link Legal merger) DH Law Associates, has gone independent to return to boutique roots.

Platinum picks up Vinod Dhall post TTA break-up as senior advisor

Talwar Thakore Associates (TTA) former competition head and executive chairman Vinod Dhall, whose collaboration relationship we had reported on Tuesday to have ended, has resurfaced quickly and joined Platinum Partners with the “senior advisor” tag, Bar & Bench has reported.

TTA collaboration with ex-CCI chief Vinod Dhall ends • 2018 petition had challenged Dhall’s ability to appear

The relationship between Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) competition chief Vinod Dhall - which was branded as Vinod Dhall in collaboration with Talwar Thakore & Associates - is over.

Lawyer Gautam Khaitan: 3rd court extension of detention, lock up to continue until 20 Feb

The detention of OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan has been extended again today by a special court on request of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

AZB competition partner Rahul Rai chooses to ‘downgrade’ from partnership to counsel position

AZB & Partners Mumbai-based competition lawyer Rahul Rai, has announced internally that he would step down from partnership and take up counsel position at the firm instead (for now).

Kochhar Hyderabad spin-off Juris Prime hires 1 partner, promotes 1 • Now 4 partners

Juris Prime Law Services, which was spun out of Kochhar & Co in 2015 by Hyderabad head and partner VVSN Raju, has promoted one freelancer and one of its principal associates to partner.

Blackstone buys for $378m: Aadhar Housing Finance advised by Khaitan

“Blackstone pips Baring, Hero Fincorp to buy Aadhar Housing Finance for Rs 2,700 crore: The company was looking at this deal to free up capital and use the fund to ease liquidity pressure on Dewan Housing Finance,” reported The Economic Times , whose sources pegged the acquisition amount at $378m. K...

Khaitan acts for Minda Industries on $3.5m purchase of vehicle automation biz from KPIT

“Minda to acquire telematics hardware biz from KPIT Engineering: Minda Industries Ltd has agreed to acquire the business related to telematics hardware products from KPIT Engineering Ltd” for Rs 25 crore (about $3.5 million), reported VCCircle . Khaitan & Co advised Minda Industries Limited led...

PDS Legal opens Bangalore office spearheaded by AZB partner Chetan Nagendra (NLS ‘00)

Chetan Nagendra, former Bangalore partner of AZB & Partners, has joined Big 4 consultancy E&Y best friend law firm PDS Legal as a partner, to open up its Bangalore office, according to sources with knowledge of the move.

Walmart’s Flipkart gets new general counsel: Bijoya Roy joins from Thomson Reuters during challenging times

Thomson Reuters general counsel for global emerging markets, Bijoya Roy, has taken up the position to head Flipkart in Bangalore under its new Walmart owners.

HSA disputes team under Abeezar Faizullabhoy, with 2 partners, migrates to Argus

Argus Partners has hired HSA Advocates Mumbai-based senior partner Abeezar E Faizullabhoy and his team of two associate partners Shahen Pradhan and Murtaza Kachwalla, as well as three associates.

Gautam Khaitan back in jail over allegedly new allegations • Lawyer claims ED is making him a ‘monkey’ fallguy

Gautam Khaitan, managing partner of OP Khaitan & Co, is back in jail, after a special court re-extended his Enforcement Directory (ED) custody over the weekend by another six days, to a total of 11 days now, following fresh black money allegations made by the ED that are apparently not related to the dodgy Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland chopper deal.

AZB acts on India leg of US Informatica buy of Canada’s AllSight

REDWOOD CITY, California: Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced it has acquired AllSight Inc., the Toronto startup and customer insights market innovator, to bring expanded business-user engagement to the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform, powered by the CLAIR...

JSA snaps up CAM leaver Asim Abbas as partner to ‘anchor’ Delhi TMT practice

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Asim Abbas as a partner, after the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) specialist had left the firm late last year.

VC boutique Themis expands to Delhi after Mumbai with SAM PA Vinayak Mishra

Bangalore-headquartered venture capital advisory powerhouse Themis Associates has hired former Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) principal associate Vinayak Mishra as a partner-equivalent consultant in Delhi to spearhead its expansion into the city.