Projects and finance lawyer Sameen Vyas, who had been partner at L&L Partners, passed away earlier today after a cardiac arrest.

Lartid: 10941 Abhishek Shinde heads out of AZB A ZB & Partners Delhi corporate partner Abhishek Shinde , who had joined from K Law in 2017 , has resigned from the firm and is understood to be in talks with at least one other firm. He declined to comment when contacted. We have also reached out ...

Bharucha Singh & Partners has reverted into its pre-April 2019-merger constituents, Bharucha & Partners and Mundkur Law Offices.

Link Legal India Law Services’ former chief executive officer (CEO) Jayanarayanan NR, who had left earlier this month to relocate to Mumbai, has joined IndusLaw as CEO according to authoritative sources.

TMT Law Practice, which had separated from Bharucha Singh Mundkur in March, has laterally hired two salaried partners and opened up in Mumbai.

L&L Partners capital markets head Manan Lahoty and a team of 17 other fee-earners have started working at IndusLaw’s offices on Saturday, 5 October, after a contentious exit.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner, executive committee member and previous competition law practice co-chair Amitabh Kumar has left the firm after reaching the partnership deed’s retirement age of 65 today.

Link Legal India Law Services chief executive officer (CEO) Jayanarayanan NR, who had joined the firm in February 2016 from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, has left the firm and will relocate to Mumbai.

Embassy Office Parks acting general counsel Clarence Anthony, who had been on secondment to the real estate developer from Trilegal since April, has returned to the law firm in Bangalore with a promotion into its equity partnership, in news that was first reported by Bar & Bench.

Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) has hired Bhasin & Co lawyer Sanjay Gupta as a partner in its Delhi-based dispute resolution practice.

DMD Advocates has hired Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) principal associate Vivek Agarwal has joined DMD Advocates as its first full-time competition partner.

Manan Lahoty, head of the crack capital markets team that is set to join IndusLaw soon, has won a major victory in the Bombay high court yesterday in a multi-hour hearing against his as-of-now-still employer L&L Partners.

Dhruv Singhal, who had in August left AZB & Partners, after having moved there in 2016 from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, has re-joined the latter.

Two lawyers from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and one from a real estate developer have started their own law firm, Menon Verma.

Hot on the heels of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ equity partner promotions of 11, and pretty much as long in the making and interviewing, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has lifted 10 of its salaried partners into equity:Abhishek Guha (NUJS Kolkata; corporate),Arvind Sharma (Delhi University, CLC; corporate),Rudra Kumar Pandey (Delhi University, CLC; corporate),Veena Sivaramakrishnan (Nalsar Hyderabad; banking & finance),Anoop Rawat (Delhi University, CLC; insolvency),Harman Singh Sandhu (MD University; LLM King’s College; competition),Anuj Berry (NUJS Kolkata; LLM University of Oxford; disputes),Rishab Gupta (London School of Economics; disputes),Nikhil Naredi (NLSIU Bangalore; capital markets), andVR Neelkanthan (NLSIU Bangalore; projects).

AZB & Partners Mumbai side has made its second batch of partnership promotions this year, lifting up another four.

Jyoti Singh, partner at Phoenix Legal in Mumbai in disputes and insolvency, has started a boutique disputes and litigation firm.

As some of the world (including lots of youngsters) have been protesting for action against global heating for the past week, we have taken a look at whether India’s legal profession and law schools have done much (and if they can do better).

Trilegal has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) partner Kunal Gupta as a partner in white-collar crime investigations in Delhi.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 11 of its partners to equity partner.