Trilegal has confirmed its vote to admit AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Harsh Maggon into its partnership and corporate practice.

US-headquartered international firm Perkins Coie’s India practice chair I Bobby Majumder has joined Reed Smith last month to co-lead its India practice (and he also opened its newly started Dallas office as co-managing partner, in what is part of an eight-partner, 16-lawyer raid on three Dallas offices).

Argus Partners has hired independent litigator Maneesha Kongovi as a partner in Bangalore with her team.

Charul Yadav, who had rejoined IP firm Obhan & Associates as associate partner in January of this year after a one-year stint at LexOrbis, has been promoted to partner at the firm, according to a press release.

Trilegal counsel Padmaja Kaul, who’d been with the firm since 2012, has joined IndusLaw in Delhi as its second litigation partner in the city.

Kochhar & Co senior partner and head of its maritime practice, Gautam Bhatikar, has resigned with his team of five lawyers last month.

Kartik Maheshwari, Mumbai-based leader at Nishith Desai Associates (NDA), has resigned from the firm several month ago and will join Netflix India’s legal team soon, according to sources.

Former Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Deep Roy, whom we had reported to have resigned in March, has started up a boutique firm under the name Equilex, in the finance and sexy flavour-of-the-month insolvency space.

HSA Advocates has hired SNG & Partners principal associate Amit Charan as a partner in its Delhi office, according to the firm’s press release.

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) had circulated an internal email announcing a salary freeze for mid-level associates and above, due to the firm having experienced “stagnancy in the revenue growth for 2019”.

L&L Partners young corporate partner Amit Shetye is set to join New York-headquartered infrastructure investment fund giant Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) in a senior in-house legal and executive role in India, according to several sources.

Mumbai-headquartered national firm Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has promoted four of its associate partners to equity partner level, and one associate director to director level, increasing the total size of its equity partnership to 11.

Advaita Legal senior partner Atul Dua will be setting up an independent high court chambers practice, after disagreements between him and Advaita’s best friend consultancy firm KPMG.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Link Legal India Law Services projects and project finance partner Shashwat Kumar as a partner in Delhi.

HSA Advocates has hired independent practitioner Vatsal Gaur, who had started his independent two years ago after leaving Khaitan & Co and Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, as associate partner in Delhi, according to its press release.

Debt capital markets lawyer Pallavi Gopinath Aney has left Baker & McKenzie Singapore to join Allen & Overy (A&O) as a partner, Bar & Bench has reported.

With effect from 1 July, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 19 of its lawyers to partnership, growing its total partnership size to 132, with its total fee-earner headcount now standing at 737.

Our M&A and private equity / VC corporate law firm league tables - which we launched in December of last year and have been working on for a long time - are nearly finalised for the financial year 2018-19 (running from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019).

Elite independent German law firm Hengeler Mueller India desk lawyer Abhijit Narayan (who had joined from J Sagar Associates (JSA) in 2012), has moved to Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe as the head of its India desk and Middle East Desk in Germany.

Singhania & Partners LLP has promoted associate partner Rudra Srivastava to its partnership.