Talwar Thakore & Associates has promoted counsel Deepa Christopher and Neville Golwalla to its partnership.

Scoop: SAM goes for third-way approach after Khaitan’s straight equity cuts, CAM’s transfer from fixed to variable**

Khaitan & Co equity partners and executive directors have taken a 20% cut on their take-home pay, reported Bar & Bench today, but without any adjustments of more junior staff or lawyers’ salaries. We have reached out to Khaitan for comment. Update 17:03: Executive director HR, Amar Sinhji ...

The hope is that with this somewhat painful move now, future pain can be avoided (though of course no one knows how bad it’s going to get)**

IndusLaw has added Kochhar & Co partner Shabbeer Ahmed as a partner in its Hyderabad office.

Link Legal India Law Services has hired independent lawyer Jimit Shah as Mumbai-based associate partner in its capital markets practice.

DSK Legal has hired Link Legal India Law Services Delhi-based projects partner Dinesh Pardasani with a team of three.

Scoop: Corporate transactional saw the lion’s share of associate promos, alongside the Delhi and Bangalore offices

Mukherjee to exit AZB and consider options, not just CM A ZB & Partners Delhi-based capital markets partner Madhurima Mukherjee is set to leave the firm for “personal reasons”, reported Bar & Bench . Update 20:53 : She told us that she had been thinking about leaving for the past six month...

IndusLaw partner Anupam Prasad has set up an independent firm called AP Law Chambers around six weeks ago.

AZB & Partners has hired Wadia Ghandy partner Gautam Ganjawala as a partner in its Mumbai finance practice with a team of two senior associates.

Exclusive: Firm in strong financial position to weather possible future storms: H Jayesh

J Sagar Associates (JSA) retained partner Sujoy Bhatia has moved to Chandhiok & Mahajan as a partner and to head up its corporate practice, as first reported by Bar & Bench.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Bangalore salaried partner Arjun Perikal has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in the city earlier this month.

J Sagar Associates’ (JSA) dispute practice partners have unanimously elected Mumbai-based equity partner Varghese Thomas and Delhi-based equity partner Dheeraj Nair to co-head the disputes practice.

IndusLaw has hired Mayank Mishra as a disputes partner from J Sagar Associates (JSA) Delhi.

TTA promotes amongst its ranks T alwar Thakore & Associates has promoted two managing associates to counsel, as well as two promotions each into the managing and senior associate ranks. New counsel Nidhi Rani (NLSIU Bangalore 2010), had started her career at TTA (other than several month second...

Exclusive: The future is bright at Trilegal, despite virus, according to its new MPs*

Following the February reports that the previous managing and co-founding partners Karan Singh and Rahul Matthan were stepping down, Trilegal’s new semi-elected managing partners Sridhar Gorthi and Nishant Parikh have taken over today.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted 10 to retained partner, 7 to principal associate, one to of-counsel and 25 to senior associate, with effect from 1 April 2020.