Dua Associates has circulated a statement to members of the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) after 41 Dua lawyers and nine partners are now confirmed to have joined breakaway firm Tatva Legal. Tatva has also responded with its first public statement.

United Arab Emirate (UAE) firm Musthafa & Almana is starting up to four offices in Kerala and South India.

FoxMandal Little Delhi has hired KR Chawla & Co’s corporate head and the general counsel (GC) of Patni Computer Systems as partners. Several senior partners have also entered into a sale-and-leaseback of the firm’s Noida head-office to steady its cashflow.

Law firm lawyers turned out in force for the Maharashtra and Goa Bar Council elections yesterday, having left ALMT Legal partner Hitesh Jain feeling confident of winning a seat by a comfortable margin.

Jones Day has promoted India capital markets of counsel Manoj Bhargava to partner in its Singapore office.

Dua Associates is opening an office in Singapore this month with the former Asia Pacific general counsel of Procter & Gamble. The firm has also hired two lateral equity partners for its Delhi office.

At least 20 to 30 lawyers from Dua Associates are starting up a new national law firm with offices in Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

SN Gupta & Co has hired Planning Commission consultant Rashi Anand Suri as a partner to start up the firm’s infrastructure and projects practice.

Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe has promoted three solicitors to partner, including the first female partner in its current partnership.

Former Amarchand Mangaldas partner Krishnava Dutt’s Kolkata spin-off firm is now operational as Argus Partners and has already grown to a size to rival his former firm’s outpost while looking to become a national firm.

The former Mumbai founding senior associate of Associated Law Advisers Ashu Thakur has set up a boutique SME start-up law firm with a France desk.

Coinciding with Paras Kuhad Associates’ demerger from Hemant Sahai Associates, Paras Kuhad spin-off firm Vidhii Partners has merged with Bangalore firm Harsha & Co, acquired Mumbai office space and is training its sights on creating a pan-Indian litigation firm.

Titus & Co has lifted this year’s Delhi Twenty20 law firm cricket cup trophy after a nail biting victory against Saikrishna in Sunday’s finals.

Hemant Sahai Associates and Paras Kuhad & Associates have split only two months after announcing the ill-fated merger of their practices to create PHA Advocates.

Bangalore-headquartered firm Universal Legal has opened a Mumbai office with one partner and two associates in the Mahalaxmi area.

Two more FoxMandal Little Delhi partners have resigned and started a new full-service law firm with two other FoxMandal partners who left the firm earlier this year.

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi office is launching a day-care facility for the children of its working mothers in a bid to support and facilitate work-life balance.

Gurgaon-based law firm Kaden Boriss Legal LLP has promoted four of its senior associates to partner in its new limited liability partnership (LLP) structure.

We have asked the firm’s management about the joys of LLP.

Mumbai private equity (PE) boutique ARA Law is mulling opening a Hyderabad office and expanding in Bangalore, having most recently advised on a Rs 60 crore Hyderabad hospital investment by private equity house Milestone Religare Investment Advisors.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton tax partner Nikhil Mehta has resigned and entered into a retainer agreement with Amarchand Mangaldas that could see him spend up to 40 per cent of his time doing non-Indian tax advice for the firm.