ALMT Legal has promoted Siddhi Ghatlia to salaried partner level in the corporate practice.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted 15 to salaried partner level.

, Shah (r): New equity ranks”)Trilegal has promoted three of its counsel lawyers in three offices to its all-equity partnership.

Khaitan Sud & Partners (KSP) is on the verge of a break-up with managing partner Umesh Khaitan, and his son and equity partner Ashutosh Khaitan having now rebranded to operate as Khaitan & Khaitan, according to authoritative sources.

Khaitan & Co has promoted 20 lawyers to partner.

Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) has promoted managing associate Rituparno Bhattacharya to its partnership, with effect from 1 April 2016.

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“He would have found it challenging,” says Pallavi Shroff, Delhi managing partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM), about how Mumbai managing partner Akshay Chudasama, hired from the very different J. Sagar Associates (JSA), would have fit into the legacy firm had he joined before the break-up.

TMT Law Practice added Ludus Legal partner Aahna Mehrotra as its sports law practice head last week. Mehrotra has joined TMT as a senior associate, in Delhi.

JSA’s Berjis Desai answers the tough questions about Som Sundaresan’s departure.

Samvad Partners promoted senior associate Natasha Mahajan to partner in Bangalore.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai partner Somasekhar Sundaresan, one of the top securities lawyers in India, is set to resign and take up independent counsel practice, Legally India understands authoritatively.

ALMT Legal is the last of the previous generation of law firm tenants to move out Mumbai’s Express Towers, leaving only new tenant Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas behind.

Tatva Legal partner Ekta Bahl has resigned the firm to join Samvad Partners to set up its Hyderabad office to extend “the reach of the firm to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana”.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Vinayak Burman, associate partner Amit Vyas and senior associate Archana Khosla have come together to pursue their entrepreneurial dream by starting their own law firm.

Senior litigator Zulfiquer Hansi joined Kochhar & Co in Bangalore as a partner in its labour and employment practice.

Argus Partners has promoted four lawyers internally to non-equity partner level.

Advaita Legal added three senior principals to its Delhi litigation practice – NLSIU Bangalore 2002 alumnus Kamal Sawhney, former PDS Legal associate Arijit Chakravarty and former BMR Legal associate Dharnendra Kumar Rana.

After a meeting between the Bar Council of India (BCI) and the law ministry on the subject of the entry of foreign law firms.

“)Wadia Ghandy has shut its office in Chennai as the firm’s partner heading the Chennai practice, Shona Malvi, is going independent