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).

NLUOite Anish Jaipuriar joins AKS as partner D elhi-headquartered firm AKS Partners has hired Anish Jaipuriar as partner and head of a new specialised general corporate practice, around six months after he had begun working with the firm on part-time assignments. Jaipuriar had joined in January 2020...

Sometimes doing what is normal is abnormal, especially so in the days of the coronavirus on the loose.

Kochhar & Co has hired Reena Asthana Khair as senior partner and head of international trade and indirect tax.

Bhojani was one of the first lawyers to make it to top corporate management in India, paving the way for the others who followed*

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) has postponed fresher joining dates all the way until next year, according to emails sent by the firm to candidates most of whom had accepted offers in 2019 to join the firm in August 2020.

Khaitan & Co has made working-from-home from a distance the default until the end of 2020, bearing in mind a variety of factors and routines upended by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ikigai Law has become an equity partnership, promoting its director of public policy, Nehaa Chaudhari, to equity partner, while also promoting Aparajita Srivastava to non-equity partner level.

Singh & Associates has hired Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) Bangalore-based partner Neeraj Dubey in its local office there.

HSA Advocates has hired Agarwal Law Associates lawyer Manan Shukla as a partner in its Delhi disputes team.

Khaitan & Co has announced a bumper crop of promotions, elevating 16 principal associates to salaried partner level, and 8 to counsel.

Link Legal India Law Services has hired into its Mumbai projects, finance and infrastructure practice with IDFC First Bank vice president legal, Aditya Bhardwaj.

Algo Legal has added a partner in Mumbai by hiring former Veritas Legal senior associate, which he had left in November 2019, as a partner.

L&L Partners’ litigation partnership, which is one of four separate partnerships that the firm operates under one brand name, has effectively cut fee-earner salaries by at least 15% and 35% via deferrals of retainers, which would operate retrospectively from 1 April, according to two sources with knowledge of the measures.

Senior capital markets lawyer Madhurima Mukherjee, who had left AZB & Partners in April, has enlisted with J Sagar Associates (JSA) as an independent senior consultant, we understand from several sources.

Omprakash Jha, Abhishek Puri promoted from associate partner to partner T he Law Point (TLP), a Mumbai-headquartered firm founded in 2006, has promoted its only two associate partners to partner, according to a press release. The two new partners are: Mumbai-based Omprakash Jha , specialising in pro...

As had long been an open secret in-and-outside of the firm, Trilegal co-founding partner Akshay Jaitly is retiring from the partnership and moving to Paris, as first reported by Bar & Bench today.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted a total of 77 fee-earners up its associate career ranks with Mumbai seeing the largest number of elevations, the firm has confirmed.

ANM Global Inc has promoted Delhi-based Radhika Mathur, who had joined in July 2019 as a corporate and aviation practice associate partner from Rajinder Narain & Co, has been promoted to partner.

All Khaitan & Co offices have opened their doors again today to allow fee-earners and staff - purely on a voluntary basis - to physically return to work.