Juris Corp has increased its intake of interns by taking its internship programme “virtual”, as the continuing Covid-19 pandemic has made physical internships all but impossible.

Link Legal India Law Services has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumba-based principal associate Bhalchandra Palav has joined as a partner in the dispute resolution team.

Less than a year after starting a capital markets practice, Indus now forays into bespoke tax

ANM Global has hired A&A Law Firm partner Sukhamrinder Singh Ahluwalia as a partner, adding to its corporate advisory, regulatory, arbitration and commercial practice, according to a press release.

Singh & Associates has hired L&L Partners litigation managing associate Apoorve Vashistha as a partner designate in its Gurgaon office’s dispute resolution practice.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partners Shruti Rajan and Garima Joshi have been admitted to Trilegal‘s partnership, according to a press release from the firm.

Algo Legal has hired former law firm and in-house lawyer Ankit Guha, who had set up and sold an educational tech start-up to a US company within only nine months of starting it up.

Scoop: PwC has been growing its regulatory and advisory practice though the Big Four have generally not been taking on law firms head-on

London-headquartered international shipping and corporate law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has promoted former Trilegal lawyer Dhruv Paul to its partnership, in a round of six promotions.

Scoop: The firm continues on its recent expansion with its third lateral partner addition in only two months

Former Mumbai-based Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) lawyer Karan Kalra, has started up his own law firm, called Bombay Law Chambers (BLC), specialising on venture capital (VC) and corporate advice, in addition to a novel twist on the model of him becoming an external quasi-general counsel (GC) to funds and corporates.

These days there are probably few if any lawyers who, locked up at home for weeks and often 24 hours a day, has not pondered about their mental health.

Exclusive: DSK Legal has embarked on a series of cash flow management exercises in light of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, including temporary reduction in remuneration of fee-earners.

T alwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) has frozen its fee-earner salaries at current levels without increments, while partners have said they would be reducing their drawings. According to a statement from the firm we had requested: “The partners have taken a number of prudent protective measures g...

KMPG partner and former KPMG Management Consultancy chief operating officer (COO) Jaideep Ghosh has taken over at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) in the COO position from Delhi.

Alina Arora, who had resigned from L&L Partners in late November 2019, has now joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Bar & Bench has first reported.

Link Legal India Law Services has hired former Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas lawyer Vijay Sureka as a partner in its Mumbai-based corporate practice.

Scoop: Rumours suggest other firms are also considering similar steps

Scoop: Some will have still picked up 100%, but overall the take home bonus pay may have reduced slightly

IC Universal Legal has hired ARA Law private equity and M&A partner Rowena De Sousa as a Mumbai-based partner in corporate, while also making two internal partner promotions in its corporate team - Nitesh Tiwari and Kavita Pancholi - and eight associate promotions.