Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Bangalore private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) partner Siddharth Nair has resigned, we understand from sources.

Former Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Anay Banhatti, whom we had reported went independent at the Bombay bar in March, has joined DMD Advocates as a tax partner in its Mumbai office.

Amitabh Sharma, the managing partner of HSA Advocates who had joined in April 2016 from Khaitan & Co, has laid down his management duties at the firm.

Argus Partners has continued its steady hiring policy and bulked up its Mumbai corporate and private equity practice with Global Infrastructured Partners (GIP) India legal counsel Vinod Joseph.

DLS Law Offices founder Dipti Lavya Swain, who was previously general counsel at Azure Power and partner at Luthra & Luthra, has joined HSA Advocates as a partner.

It is well known that nearly every Supreme Court case is in want of an advocate-on-record (AOR), and several lawyers and law firms have made this a core part of their Supreme Court practice. After analysing more than 120,000 of the Supreme Court’s daily orders from 2018, we have now compiled a list of the busiest advocate-on-record (AOR) firms in the apex court, according to the number of orders mentioning their names.

3 principal associate promos at IC Universal IC Universal Legal has promoted one senior associate each, in Chennai, Ahmedabad and Delhi, to principal associate level. New principal associates: Dikshit Mehta - Chennai Aditya Bimal Mehta - Ahmedabad Peeush Sharma - Delhi Sanchit Kapoor has been promot...

HSA Advocates has hired Gurgaon-based Kochhar & Co corporate partner Gaurav Sahay in its Bangalore office, that had recently seen the departure of partner Sharath Chandrasekhar (along with six others) to DSK Legal.

L itigator and Alpha Chambers Advocates & Solicitor founder Faranaaz Karbhari has joined HSA Advocates as counsel along with Rahul P Jain as an associate counsel in Mumbai. She specialises in disputes before high courts, company tribunals and arbitration, conciliation and Mediation, including d...

AZB & Partners Mumbai competition counsel Rahul Rai, who we had reported in February to have resigned from AZB’s partnership to take up an of counsel position at the firm, has joined the chambers of senior advocate Gopal Subramanium in Delhi last month, we understand from several sources.

OP Khaitan & Co founding partner Gautam Khaitan has secured bail on Tuesday after his second extended stint in jail relating to the long-running AgustaWestland chopper deal investigation, reported The Hindu and others.

Indian Supreme Court lawyers Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, both also NLSIU Bangalore graduates, have been selected for the prestigious US-based TIME magazine’s list of 100 most influential people of 2019, cited in particular for their work in overturning section 377.

Parinam Law Associates, which had been set up in November of last year by former ALMT Legal-JurisCorp partner Hitesh Jain and ex-J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Ravichandra Hegde, has promoted two of its co-founding partners to equity partner level, and two to salaried partners.

Following the en masse seven-partner poaching of a corporate-projects Delhi-Mumbai-Bangalore team from HSA Advocates, DSK Legal has now added HSA Delhi and Mumbai-based litigation partner Nand Kishore and his team of four fee-earners.

IndusLaw has promoted four of its lawyers to partnership, as well as four to principal associates and nine to senior associate, according to its press release.

Karanjawala & Co has promoted 6 to principal associate and 10 to senior associate level, according to its press release. The firm consists of around 100 fee-earners, including 9 partners. Founding partner Raian Karanjawala said in the release: “We are now a team of approximately 100 lawyers and...

Abhishek Gupta (l), Ravi Mishra become principal associates at MZM M ZM Legal has promoted Abhishek Gupta and Ravi Mishra from senior associate to principal associate, the firm said in a press release. Abhishek Gupta specialises in dispute resolution and white collar crime defence, and banking and f...

Kachwaha & Partners has promoted senior associate Ankit Khushu as a partner on 1 April 2019.

Khaitan & Co has promoted 42 of its fee-earners to principal associate (PA), and 65 to senior associate (SA), in a round that was heavily dominated by corporate throughout all four cities, according the full list we have obtained.

The corporate practice area had 8 new PAs (with a nearly even split between Mumbai and Delhi), closely followed by disputes at 6 (all of which were in Delhi).