Hogan Lovells has poached Squire Patton Boggs India group co-chair and capital markets partner Biswajit Chatterjee into its corporate and finance practice in Singapore, according to the firm’s press release.

L&L Partners co-founder and former senior partner Mohit Saraf, who had won a Rs 77 crore-value settlement in a protracted arbitration and Delhi high court dispute and separation with fellow co-founder Rajiv Luthra, will announce the setting up of his own rival firm today, we understand according to multiple market sources.

JurisCorp equity partners in its banking practice, Delhi-based Nand Gopal Anand and Mumbai-baseed Pratish Kumar, have joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) as partners in its Gurugram and Mumbai offices repsectively, according to a firm release.

Ipsita Chowhury joins JSA as partner T rilegal counsel Ipsita Chowdhury has joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) in Gurgaon as a salaried partner. According to a JSA release, her mentoring partner at JSA is Rupinder Malik. The 2010 GLC Bombay graduate has worked at Trilegal since 2014, making counsel in ...

HSA Advocates has hired Ravi Jain from Economic Laws Practice (ELP) as a partner in its projects, energy & infrastructure practice.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Sameer Chugh as Delhi-based corporate and technology, media & telecommunication (TMT) and regulatory partner.

Khaitan & Co has bolted on the Chennai-based law firm Assentio Legal, which had been started by Thriyambak Kannan, Rohan Cherian and Renu Gopalakrishnan, who will join from 1 July with their team in Khaitan’s Chennai and Bengaluru offices.

AZB & Partners has hired L&L Partners Mumbai-based partner Avinash Subramanian as a partner in its restructuring, IBC and structured finance practice in Mumbai.

HSA Advocates has hired Advaita Legal partner Shailendra Kumar Singh, counsel Alok Shankar and principal Monali Dutta as partners in HSA’s Delhi office with their teams of another seven fee-earners.

C yril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) has said it had appointed three former banking industry regulators to its financial institutions group (FIG) and an initiative it has dubbed a “regulatory bench”, according to a press release by the firm last week. The initiative was a “critical piece” of CAM’s advic...

T he former general counsel (GC) of Tata Sons, Shuva Mandal, has today officially announced his exit and joining start-up law firm Anagram Legal with a job profile change on LinkedIn. We had first reported his move last month , amidst speculation that he would be managing partner at Anagram, which a...

The Delhi high court bench of justices RS Endlaw and Sanjeev Narula hearing the long-running dispute between Rajiv Luthra and Mohit Saraf, the two co-founders of L&L Partners , has ordered the Luthra to pay Saraf in compensation while Saraf could exit and set up his own firm, Bar & Bench h...

C yril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) head of international tax and director Daksha Baxi has started up her own firm, SRI Solutions , in Mumbai, according to her LinkedIn profile. She had joined CAM in 2018 from Khaitan & Co. Her daughter, Pooja Baxi-Patel who had joined CAM at the same time as Baxi...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Bengaluru-based equity partner Arjun Lall, who had been with the firm for 20 years since graduating from NLSIU Bengaluru in 2001, has now officially left the firm.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Desai & Diwanji Mumbai partner Ketaki Gor Mehta as a partner in its new office in the Gandhinagar-based office in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), which it had announced in early May 2021 (alongside IC Universal Legal also opening in the city).

Pallavi Banerjee moves from JSA to Trilegal T rilegal has continued expanding its finance footprint, with J Sagar Associates (JSA) corporate and finance retained partner Pallavi Banerjee having been hired to join as a counsel in Mumbai, we reliably understand. The 2013 NUJS Kolkata graduate had been...

T rilegal and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) have continued the small-scale war of partner attrition, with Mumbai-based banking and finance partners Pranav Sharma and Mallika Chopra in the process of being voted into the Trilegal partnership, Bar & Bench reported. CAM managing partner Cyril Sh...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has re-hired Rutu Gandhi as a partner in its financial regulatory practice (FRP) in Mumbai.

Allen & Overy (A&O) has appointed two Singapore-based partners, Sheila Ahuja and Pallavi Gopinath Aney, as joint chairs of its India group, after the departure of London-based former India head Sanjeev Dhuna.

IndusLaw has in Bengaluru recruited Bharadwaj Jaishankar as a partner in its intellectual property practice.