Law firms
ELP associate partner Tomu Francis joins Khaitan as partner
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) associate partner Tomu Francis has joined Khaitan & Co as partner in Mumbai.
Litigation-focused Singhania & Partners spreads wings into corporate with new Gurgaon office
Singhania & Partners has opened an office in Gurugram headed by partner Arjun Anand who is expanding the firm’s corporate practice.
Post-Raghavan taking the black, IndusLaw promotes P Chinnappa as Bangalore lit partner
IndusLaw has promoted Palecanda M Chinnappa to partner in its litigation & dispute resolution department in Bangalore, following Tuesday’s reported departure of V Srinivasa Raghavan to senior counsel-dom.
Induslaw lit head, ‘96 NLS grad Srinivasa Raghavan to leave firm with Karnataka senior counsel robe
IndusLaw senior partner and head of litigation and dispute resolution, V Srinivasa Raghavan, has received the senior counsel nod from the Karnataka high court.
Cyril Delhi’s Harsh Kumar (NUJS 05) joins Shardul Amarchand Delhi
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Harsh Kumar, who had resigned in September, has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas.
Link Legal promotes five ‘06-07 grads to partner
Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) has made 5 new partners including 2 associate partners.
Revealed: The live Legally India 2018 corporate law firm deals league tables & directory
We are very happy to announce the formal launch of Legally India’s live deals league tables, law firm and lawyer directory.
Khaitan principal associate Shweta Dwivedi joins Link Legal as associate partner
Khaitan & Co principal associate Shweta Dwivedi has joined Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) as associate partner in the corporate team in Mumbai.
SAM picks up AZB partner (Symbi 07) Sugandha Asthana for Mumbai corporate
AZB & Partners 2016-promoted partner Sugandha Asthana has resigned and is set to join Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas.
Ex-Azure GC, Luthra partner Dipti Lavya Swain starts firm with 2 offices, 3 partners
Mumbai-based Dipti Lavya Swain, who had been general counsel (GC) at Azure Power until around six months ago, has set up law firm DLS Law Offices.
Ex-ALMT-JurisCorp’s Hitesh Jain, ex-JSA Ravi Hegde start 7-partner tri-city firm Parinam
Juris Corp partner Hitesh Jain and his team, as well as recently-exited J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Ravichandra Hegde, are setting up a new law firm, with offices in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi.
Samvad Mumbai partner Sudipta Routh joins Indus, grows firm to 29
Samvad Partners Mumbai corporate partner Sudipta Routh has joined IndusLaw as a partner.
Other Akila Agrawal SAM team-member Sourav De Biswas to join CAM, after near-4-month break
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas corporate and M&A salaried partner Sourav Kanti De Biswas, whom we had reported had resigned in July, is set to join Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas next week.
2 Cyril Amarchand Delhi partners, Kirat Singh Nagra, Rishi Anand, resign at same time, with 3 months’ notice
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Delhi partners Kirat Singh Nagra and Rishi Anand have resigned from the firm last week, according to authoritative sources.
NLU J ‘08 AOR Anand Varma, father expand Delhi lit start-up APT to Mumbai, tier 2 cities with laterals
NLU Jodhpur 2008 alumnus Anand Varma and his father Tarun Varma’s Delhi-based litigation start-up APT Legal has now opened offices in Mumbai, Allahabad and Jaipur, with more office openings in the offing.
Karanjawala faces ‘innocuous’ bar council complaint in MJ Akbar case, apologises over missing lawyers’ details
Karanjawala & Co said it is unfazed by the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) complaint against it over its client MJ Akbar’s defamation suit, and has apologised to the BCD.
Rajiv Luthra appointed to govt committees to deliberate on CSR and international trade
DSK senior partner Tushar Ajinkya joins ELP with team, takes corporate size to 8
DSK Legal senior partner Tushar Ajinkya has joined Economic Laws Practice (ELP) with a team of three in Mumbai.
HSA bulks up regulatory: Sterlite Power in-houser Apoorva Misra joins as partner + AP Shreshth Sharma from Jindal, Nitish Gupta from DSK
HSA Advocates has added former Sterlite Power Grid Ventures in house counsel Apoorva Misra as partner in Delhi in the regulatory policy and disputes practice.
As workforce gets younger, Khaitan takes first steps to ‘working from home’, intros semi-flexible hours, parenthood, crunch-time benefits
Khaitan & Co has set out a number of progressive human resources (HR) policies to facilitate flexible working, including some additional maternity (and paternity) benefits and compensatory time-off when workloads get extreme or interfere with pre-arranged holidays.