Economic Laws Practice (ELP) Delhi tax litigation partner Alok Yadav left the firm to go independent on 30 June, over two years after having joined it.

Crawford Bayley associate partner Vinayak Vengurlekar left the firm on 31 May. GLC Mumbai alumnus Vengurlekar was promoted to associate partner at the firm in 2011 and specialised in litigation. Crawford Bayley partner Sanjay Buch said: “He has resigned on personal grounds and may be starting his Counsel Practice considering he was assisting the firm in its litigation matters.” Vengurlekar was not reachable for comment at the time of going to press.

Litigation specialists Karanjawala & Co has promoted 10 senior associate to principal associate level, raising the total principal associate ranks at the firm to 11.

LexOrbis added intellectual property (IP) strategist CR Jacob in Bangalore, along with Jacob’s team of 4 patent attorneys at his IP advisory firm IP Astra.

K Law has hired Kumar Abhishek Singh from Mumbai-based chambers Venky’s Chambers as an partner dealing with shipping, oil and gas, international trade and the defense of economic crimes.

Majmudar & Partners has promoted Amrit Mehta to associate partner level in Mumbai.

ASA Law Firm promoted disputes managing associates Abhishek Agrawal and Nitesh Jain to partner in its annual round of promotions.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) made six new partners and one executive partner in its indirect tax, competition and international trade practices as part of its annual round of promotions.

Link Legal India Law Services has promoted Durgesh Singh to partner in Delhi, having joined the firm in 2015 as an associate partner from Dua Associates where he was a principal associate.

Veritas Legal has snapped up AZB & Partners Mumbai senior associate Zubin Mehta at a fixed income partner (a level equivalent to salaried partner at other firms).

Singh & Associates opened an office in Gurgaon, as its third in the national capital region.

A lawyer consulting full time with a public sector undertaking (PSU), who had been unsuccessfully trying to get enrolled with the Gujarat bar council (BCG) since 2012, is not allowed to do so and therefore practically not an advocate, ruled the Gujarat high court according to the Times of India.

Intellectual property (IP) powerhouse Anand & Anand has merged its Mumbai office with the media and entertainment law practice of Priyanka Khimani, Khimani & Associates, taking on a new avatar in the city carrying both brand names, as Anand and Anand & Khimani.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has hired in its Delhi office’s tax practice Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan senior partner MP Devnath as an equity partner and two of his junior partners: Vivek Sharma as a partner and Abhishek Anand as an associate partner.

Universal Legal promoted GLC Mumbai 2013 alumnus Shreya Deora to senior associate with effect from 10 June 2017.

Juris Corp has issued a press release announcing the resignation of four partners - Veena Sivaramakrishnan, Sandeep Mahapatra, Debanjan Banerjee and Abhinav Surana.

Hammurabi & Solomon absorbed boutique law firm Brahmand Lexis in Mumbai, inducting its managing partner Digajmaan Mishra as equity partner and its partner Yashmaan Mishra as a partner in Mumbai, as first reported by VCCircle.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai capital markets partner Nikhil Naredi, who had joined in 2015 from Jones Day in Singapore, where he was an associate, is set to leave the firm.

Former Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) principal associate Nidhi Pathania, who left the firm in a mass exodus to K Law, has re-joined Link Legal as an associate partner in Mumbai.

Argus Partners has added Reserve Bank of India (RBI) principal chief general manager Pramod Panda as a partner in Mumbai, to set up its financial regulatory practice.