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The Indian legal services industry has never quite seen the turmoil that it has experienced in 2016. As generations shift, institutions mature and old alliances and allegiances crumble, the question is being asked: Could it be the end of days or a new beginning?

Veritas Legal, the firm started by ex-AZB & Partners senior partner Abhijit Joshi in 2014, has made its first two internal promotions, according to a press release from the firm.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Hyderabad partner and office head Rahul Sarella has resigned, according to three authoritative sources.

Patnaik now confirmed to be joining Trilegal…

Little & Co shut down its Pune office on 31 March. The office was on BS Dhole Patil Road, near the railway station.

Naik & Naik’s equity partnership grew to five with the promotion of salaried partner Ravi Suryawanshi to equity, in its technology, media and telecommunication (TMT) practice.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) promoted three partners to executive partner and four joint partners to partner, reported Bar & Bench.

HSA Advocates has continued on its self-set expansion course, hiring Sharath Chandrasekhar in its new Bangalore office.

IndusLaw has hired RDA Legal corporate partner and Mumbai office head Anupam Prasad as a corporate partner.

Rajani & Associates senior partner Sanjay Israni left the firm to head Desai & Diwanji’s capital markets team as a partner in Mumbai.

Umesh Khaitan’s newly rebranded firm Khaitan & Khaitan has moved away from its top focus – the project finance practice, to focus on corporate governance, private equity and venture capital and environment law. It has also moved to a much bigger office.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) managing partner Rohan Shah will retire from the firm to become an independent counsel.

Mumbai-based disputes firm The Law Point relocated to Nariman Point and a bigger space.

S&R Associates has promoted three to partner.

Luthra & Luthra will open an office in Hyderabad with local Tatva Legal partner Durga Bose Gandham, according to three sources with knowledge of the development.

Khaitan & Co competition law executive director Paku Khan will relocate to San Francisco in the US

: Ashwath Rau”)Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate partner Ashwath Rau has joined AZB & Partners today, confirmed managing partner Zia Mody for the first time.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted three to partner, and two to partner designate, with effect from 5 June, according to its press release.

Nishith Desai Associates has expanded its Palo Alto presence with the hire of Aysswarya Murthi, who had been promoted to erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas’ Mumbai partnership in 2012 before joining US firm Reed Smith’s Silicon Valley office in October 2015.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumbai star corporate partner Ashwath Rau and AZB & Partners Delhi senior partner Percy Billimoria have both served out their notice period in record time, with today being the last day at their respective firms until they swap firms later this week.