S amvad Partners has hired Nisha Mallik , former associate partner at Themis Associates who had left in March of this year. She joined Samvad this month in Mumbai, as Samvad Partners ’ 15 th partner. Before Themis she worked at Sand Hill Counsel. The 2006 SLS Pune graduate specialises in venture cap...

K Law partner Arjun Rajgopal has joined L&L Partners in Delhi in its corporate practice, according to the firm and his Linked-in profile.

Gunderson Dettmer India and Southeast Asia head Ferish Patel - who had also headed its Singapore office - has joined the Hong Kong office of Cooley as a partner, according to the firm’s press release, with an aim to set up a Singapore office under him soon.

AZB & Partners has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumbai partner Nikunj Maheshwari in its banking and finance practice.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) partner Dhruv Dewan is set to go independent as a litigator in Delhi, we understand authoritatively from sources.

Link Legal India Law Services has promoted Samantha Fernandes D’Souza as associate partner in its banking and finance team.

US international law firm Milbank has hired NUJS Kolkata graduate Sarbajeet Nag as a partner in London from Allen & Overy (A&O), where he was a senior associate.

Hammurabi & Solomon Partners has hired PwC associate director Pravesh Khandelwal as a partner in Gurgaon’s indirect tax and GST practice.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has beefed up its Mumbai infrastructure practice with the hire of Ravi Jain from AZB & Partners, where he was a senior transactional lawyer.

Advaita Legal principal Gaurav Gupta has set up an independent litigation practice called Vantage Law Chamber (VLC) focusing primarily on servicing consultancy firms with litigation support services.

Trilegal has hired HSA Advocates partner Rahul Arora as a partner in its Energy and Infrastructure practice in Delhi, growing the partnership strength to 52.

ARA Law has hired K Law Bangalore-based associate partner Subharekha Ravi as co-head of its private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) practice.

ANM Global has hired its first two associate partners in Delhi and Mumbai, and has opened up a media and entertainment office in Andheri, according to a press release.

Siddharth Raja, Aditya Narayan and Megha Malhotra Narayan, partners who left Argus Partners earlier this week, have started up their Bangalore-based firm Saakshya Law.

Nalsar Hyderabad 2007 graduate Revathi Raghavan has joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in London from Allen & Overy, according to her Linked-in profile.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) has promoted eight of its joint partners to partner level, with effect from 1 April 2019, according to a press release.

Former Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) executive director Usha Narayanan, who had served with the regulator for 21 years and had joined what-was-then Amarchand Mangaldas in 2012 as an of counsel Mumbai, has passed away at age 65 after a battle with cancer.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) indirect tax partners MP Devnath and Vivek Sharma, and associate partner Abhishek Anand, who had joined in 2017 after leaving Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS), have joined Seetharaman & Associates, which has now rebranded to Sarvada Legal.

Argus Partners Bangalore senior partner Siddharth Raja and husband-and-wife partner duo Aditya Narayan, Megha Narayan will be setting up their own law firm.

A former Khaitan & Co associate has, in a 12-page resignation letter, expressed her concern about the internal prevention of sexual harassment (POSH) committee’s handling of her complaint against a fellow associate.