T he 2017-founded Chennai-based start-up law firm VB Legal , which had been started by ex-J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Varun Sriram and local independent practitioner Bhavya Sriram has rebranded to Commercial Law Advisors (CLA) after growing to three partners. In 2019, then-Freshworks director l...

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) London-based India litigation head Nick Peacock, who had been with the firm for more than 20 years, has joined Bird & Bird and will head up its international arbitration team from London.

Bangalore-based private equity boutique Lexygen, set up in 2006 by Vijay Sambamurthi, has pledged to donate $150,000 worth of free legal advice to start-ups hit by the pandemic and NGOs (especially those in the healthcare and health-tech space) on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Bengaluru-based Tatva Legal co-founding partner Manav Nagaraj will be joining Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) with his team, including partner Bhargava KS, we have reliably learned.

Juris Corp has promoted three to partner, and two each to counsel, principal associate and senior associate respectively.

The general counsel (GC) of Tata Sons, Shuva Mandal, is set to exit for Mumbai-based start-up law firm Anagram Legal, which we understand he has been instrumental in setting up, according to three sources with authoritative knowledge of the news.

Khaitan & Co has announced that it would open an office in Chennai later this year with a relocation from Mumbai and the hiring of dispute resolution independent counsel Arva Merchant as a local partner in the city.

Over the past days, legal whisper networks as well as social media sites have been abuzz about Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas’ (SAM) vaccination camp, which had begun vaccinating all of its Delhi staff at its Okhla offices.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has expanded its equity partnership to 12 by promoting Kumar Visalaksh and Ashish Prasad to equity partners.

W adia Ghandy has promoted eight fee-earners to its partnership, growing to 41 partners. The new partners and their practice areas and LLB alma mater, respectively, are: Anant Kaushik (corporate; HNLU Raipur) Abinash Pradhan (real estate, litigation, ADR; KIIT Bhubaneswar) Abir Patel (real estate; M...

Associate promotions by practice area at CAM C yril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted six of its fee-earners to director level in a round of 120 associate promotions (though 23 of those are promotions into various associate ‘designate’ ranks, which are mostly in use at the Amarchand legacy firms). Ac...

IndusLaw may have been growing leaps and bounds, including by recently breaking into the cozy top-tier capital markets club and having been one of the more aggressive lateral hirers in recent times, but the firm’s starting salary had somewhat lagged behind compared to the highest-paying firms.

T rilegal has promoted 21 of its fee-earners to counsel level, which at the all-equity partnership of the firm is arguably equivalent to the salaried partner level at many other Indian law firms. The majority of new counsel were in the corporate practice area, with five getting the nod in disputes a...

Ajoy Halder, who had started up infrastructure law firm Halder & Associates in 2017 in Delhi, has passed away after contracting Covid-19.

L&L Partners star Delhi-based corporate partner, Sundeep Dudeja, passed away earlier today after a prolonged battle with Covid-19.

D esai & Diwanji has promoted four to partner and 10 to associate partner in its Mumbai office. The following four were promoted to partner: Pinky Patel (Litigation, 1998 LLB) Dhanyashree Jadeja (Litigation, 2008 LLB) Farida Dholkawala (Corporate, 2010 LLB) Rahul Chauhan (Project Finance, 2009 ...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 23 of its fee-earners to partner, reported Bar & Bench.

Against the backdrop of Brexit and vaccine diplomacy the United Kingdom and India yesterday agreed to a deal to increase investments by $1.39bn and to work on a longer-term bilateral free trade deal between the countries (dubbed an “Enhanced Trade Partnership”), as widely reported.

Gautam Narasimhan to co-lead A&O Singapore office A llen & Overy (A&O) has appointed partner Gautam Narasimhan , a 2000 NLSIU Bangalore graduate who had spent his entire career abroad, as the co-head of its Singapore office. According to a press release from Allen & Over, he took...

IndusLaw has added yet another lateral hire partner with employment law principal associate Vaibhav Bhardwaj joining the firm in Delhi.