While we normally don’t really report news on law firm business development (BD), this one’s quite interesting: Trilegal has hired the former Baker & McKenzie Hong Kong office BD and marketing director Anand Ramaswamy in Delhi, reported India Business Law Journal . He had been at Bakers for 13 ...

Clasis Law’s IP team headed by partner Rahul Beruar has left to set up Beruar & Beruar, with its head office in Delhi’s Defence Colony.

Former DLA Piper foreign qualified lawyer Timothy Franklyn joined Tatva Legal as a partner in Bangalore.

Naik Naik & Co organised the recent press conference at which late Justice Loya’s son, BH Loya, shared that he did not think anymore that his father’s death was suspicious. However, when some heard a reference to what they thought was Amit Shah, in the audio of the press conference, this began ...

Khaitan & Co Delhi principal associate Arjun Rajgopal joined K Law in Bangalore as corporate partner last month.

Indian lawyers practising abroad would end up bearing the brunt of the Bar Council of India (BCI) potential regulation of foreign law firms under the current regulatory regime, argued London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) counsel Dushyant Dave before the Supreme Court yesterday.

Slaughter and May has topped the mergermarket value league table of international law firms that advised on M&A deals in the 2017 calendar year.

Trilegal Delhi corporate, M&A and private equity counsel Vishwanath Pratap Singh has left the firm several weeks ago and is understood to be joining Luthra & Luthra as a partner in Delhi.

The Supreme Court refused to entertain adjournment pleas by senior advocates in today’s hearing of the Bar Council of India (BCI) writ against the entry of foreign law firms into India, reported Bar & Bench.

AZB & Partners and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) acted on the biggest and greatest number of deals respectively, according to mergermarket (MM), which captured far fewer deals than both Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters databases that we had reported last week, in part due to its different deal eligibility criteria (see below).

Former HSA Advocates partners Sakya Chaudhuri, Avijeet Lala and Anand Shrivastava’s Delhi start-up Neeti Niyaman has expanded to Mumbai with the opening of a new office in Fort.

MDP & Partners now again has a corporate practice and a projects / banking practice respectively with the addition of two new partners after rehiring former associate Pranav N Jain and former associate Malav Virani.

GLC Mumbai 2007 alumnus Nitin Jain has joined his GLC senior Archana Balasubramanian’s four-year-old start-up Agama Law Associates as managing partner, having left his role as in-house counsel at Tata Chemicals.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) Delhi-based partners Abir Roy and T Sundar Ramanathan have left the firm to start-up an independent firm in collaboration with former LKS senior partner S Seetharaman, who left the firm in October.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Chennai corporate partner Varun Sriram co-founded corporate law firm VB Legal in Chennai with independent lawyer Bhavya Sriram (no relation) two weeks ago, as first reported by VC Circle.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Delhi partner Piyush Mishra, who had been hired in 2015 from Luthra & Luthra, has resigned the firm and is understood to in advanced talks to be joining AZB & Partners.

AZB & Partners Mumbai lateral partner and compliance and investigation practice head Ajay Upadhyay has moved to KPMG as a partner in its forensic practice, two years after having joined from E&Y.

Bombay solicitors firm Solomon & Co has expanded to Pune after 109 years of operations only from Mumbai.

Karanjawala & Co has promoted nine associates from Amity Delhi, Amity Noida, Symbiosis Pune, RGNUL Patiala, Llyod Noida and GLC Mumbai to senior associate.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Delhi partner Vishal Anand has died earlier this morning of cardiac arrest following multiple organ failures, after having been admitted to hospital several weeks ago.