Singapore-based Baker & McKenzie director of economics and India group member Sanjiv Malhotra has joined DMD Advocates as senior director and chief economist in Delhi.

Atlas Law Partners has promoted associate partner Medha Srivastava to partner, and several associates into more senior associate rungs.

Hemant Singh (pictured) expands regulatory offering to Mumbai C harter Law Chambers, which was started by Praxis Counsel partner Hemant Singh earlier this year in Delhi as a regulatory shop, has opened a Mumbai office with three fee-earners. The office is based in the Fort area and is intended to se...

The ex-co-founding partner of Trilegal, Anand Prasad, has started up a four-partner boutique law firm AP & Partners after two years as an independent counsel and budding politician.

S&R Associates has promoted two to its partnership internally:Shivaji Bhattacharya (Nalsar Hyderabad 2009; corporate M&A, Delhi)Prachi Goel (Delhi University Campus Law Centre 2007 LLB; LLM London School of Economics 2012; corporate M&A, private equity, restructuring, Mumbai).

L&L Partners has promoted six to partner, of whom three are in the M&A corporate practice group, two in general corporate, and one in banking finance, according to an internal announcement.

L&L Partners’ corporate partner Vishwanath Pratap Singh, whom we had first reported to have left in April, will be joining Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) in the coming days, coinciding with Trilegal corporate partner Ravindra Bandhakavi’s move that will also complete in the next few days.

Sports firm LawNK founder Nandan Kamath has accepted the government’s Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar award on behalf of the GoSports Foundation, which he co-founded in 2008.

Former BMR Legal Advocates principal Tarun Jain has returned to BMR Legal as a partner after he went independent in 2017, according to the firm’s press release last week.

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) has reversed its salary freeze that we had first reported in June, giving annual salary increments to fee-earners with retrospective effect.

DMD Advocates has promoted six of its lawyers to more senior levels, according to its press release. Suman Yadav has been promoted to principal associate in Delhi’s litigation and arbitration team. New senior associates are: Aditya Sarin (Delhi), Nikhita Suri (Delhi), Divay Rastogi (Delhi, corporate...

Khaitan & Co partner and 2006 ILS Pune graduate Abhishek Sinha has resigned from the firm to start-up an a new learning provider for young lawyers and law students.

L&L Partners has begun the process of rebuilding its capital markets practice and is finalising the hire of Jitesh Shahani, currently Allen & Overy (A&O) senior associate in Singapore, as well as Luthra alumnus and Nalsar Hyderabad 2005 graduate.

IndusLaw has hired J Sagar Associates (JSA) principal associate Revathy Muralidharan as a corporate transactional partner in Mumbai, as well as opened a new Mumbai litigation office near the high court.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumbai-cum-Delhi-based competition partner Bharat Budholia has resigned several weeks ago, we have learned from authoritative sources.

IndusLaw Delhi disputes partner Sandeep Grover has left the firm and started dispute resolution firm Ortis Law Offices with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas principal associate designate Aditya Nayyar as co-founding partner.

Mumbai corporate partner Dhruv Singhal, who had joined AZB & Partners with Ashwath Rau from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) in 2016, is set to leave the firm in the coming weeks.

Former HSA Advocates managing partner Amitabh Sharma, who had resigned in April from the role, has started up a new law firm called LexRidge Partners, with former Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan partner Vikas Kumar and former AZB senior legal counsel Naved Askari, according to the firm’s press release.

Trilegal Gurgaon-based partner Ravindra Bandhakavi has resigned from the firm.

Manan Lahoty, the Mumbai-based head of L&L Partners’ capital markets practice, is due to leave the firm and join IndusLaw with a team of four other capital markets partners, we have reliably learned.