While the Delhi office of Fox Mandal may have seen better days, Som Mandal, its Delhi region managing partner has stood for West Bengal assembly elections in Shyampukur on a BJP ticket.

Khaitan & Co projects principal associate Rahul Arora and counsel Megha Arora will be joining HSA Advocates as partners, with Khaitan partner Amitabh Sharma to become the new HSA managing partner, as reported by Legally India on Tuesday.

:)“)Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas lawyers again have access to Legally India from their work computers, after Legally India and Bar & Bench were inaccessible yesterday displaying the message “blocked by admin”.

Former KPMG India director Vishwanath Shukla has started up BMG Legal Solutions with former DMD Advocates lawyer Madhavi Swaroop as co-founding partner. BMG Legal is a tax advisory and disputes law firm.

AZB & Partners Delhi partner Nanju Ganpathy has been designated as senior advocate of the Delhi high court, and talks to Legally India about his career and plans.

:)“)Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas lawyers have found themselves unable to access Legally India and Bar & Bench from their work computers.

Khaitan & Co energy, infrastructure and corporate partner Amitabh Sharma has resigned and will join HSA Advocates as its managing partner, as HSA founder and managing partner Hemant Sahai is seeking to institutionalise the firm.

Ahmedabad based law firm Nanavati & Nanavati__Advocates promoted 2003 law graduate Vaibhav Shukla, 1999 law graduate Nirav Joshi and 1990 law graduate Amul Joshi to partner effective 1 April. The three new partners are alumni of Sir LA Shah Law College Ahmedabad. Shukla, who has been with Nanav...

Seth Dua & Associates (SDA) partner Salman Waris has started up a technology and intellectual property focussed law firm TechLegis, with a team of 10 lawyers including former Fox Mandal lawyers Hamdullah Sayeed, Nitin Kumar and Lalit Ambastha.

DSK Legal has promoted Munaf Virjee, Maneesh Upadhyay, and Sagar Kadam to its partnership, with Pritha Jha and Vikrant Negi getting elevated to associate partner level.

to VC fund to SAM Bangalore”)Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has started a Bangalore office with ex-Omidyar Network India general counsel (GC) Karthik Krishnan Mahalingam as office head and national venture capital practice head.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas corporate partner Ashwath Rau has informed the partnership today that he would resign.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) beat 2015’s top three firms, and flew past Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas as well, to lead Mergermarket’s M&A value rankings this quarter (Q1).

Indian Law Partners (ILP) co-founding partner Piyoosh Gupta has started his own law firm PSG Legal, aiming to expand rapidly.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas principal associates Shyamali Singh and Harsh Maggon have joined AZB & Partners in Mumbai, with Singh becoming a partner and Maggon a counsel.

Hariani & Co promoted 2006 law graduates Nirav Jani, and Viloma Shah, 2007 law graduate Abhijeet Sonawane and 2005 law graduate Sadaf Shaikh to associate partner. 2006 law graduate Sourasubha Ghosh who left Hariani three years ago, as a senior associate, will join again now as associate partner...

“)Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted eight of its lawyers to partner with effect from 1 April, according to a press release:

Wadia Ghandy promoted five senior associates across Mumbai, Delhi and Pune to partner.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has introduced the principal associate designation into its associate career track.

HSA Advocates promoted, in Delhi, NUJS 2005 alumnus Avijeet Lala and CLC Delhi 2004 alumnus Arun Mani to partner, and Nalsar 2009 alumnus Aniket Prasoon to associate partner. Lala joined the firm in 2014, and Mani joined in 2009. Mani and Prasoon are part of the firm’s disputes and infrastructure pr...