Hariani & Co won this year’s Bombay Gymkhana club football championship against the Bombay Bar Association, to pick up the Chief Justice MC Chagla Cup.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas moved into its now-renovated 23rd, 24th and 17th floors of its Express Towers offices late last month.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has expressed support for enabling foreign lawyers to establish a presence in India.

NLSIU Bangalore 2001 alumnus Azmul Haque left Olswang Singapore in September to start up Collyer Law, in Singapore. NLSIU batch mate Palash Gupta joins Collyer as India Desk head, and former Duane Morris & Selvam partner James Wong joins as Director. Collyer will advise start-ups and small businesses.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) climbed up five ranks since Mergermarket’s preview of 2015’s annual rankings, to overtake Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM). CAM, according to the preview, was the third largest M&A dealmaker after AZB & Partners and Khaitan & Co.

DSK Legal Mumbai partner and co-founding member of 14 years, Raksha Kothari, has resigned.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) appointed former Competition Commission of India (CCI) chairman Ashok Chawla as its strategic advisory board member, effective 15 January 2016. He was also assist CAM with advocacy and policy advice.

HSA Advocates partners Navin Syiem and Avirup Nag have resigned from the firm alongside associate partner Abhishek Bhalla.

A string of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ (CAM) senior and principal associates have left in recent months, following the hiring spree by the firm following its split with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas.

Davis Polk and Wardwell capital markets counsel Ferish Patel joined Gunderson Dettmer as partner in November, to head its India and Southeast Asia practice.

Nishith Desai Associates has opened an office in New York - its fourth office overseas and second in the US – hoping to tap the increased activity of private equity houses in that region of the US.

NLSIU Bangalore 2007 alumnus Aprajita Dhundia made partner at Kirkland & Ellis in London

Verus Advocates and five other Delhi lawyers managed to mobilise Delhi citizens’ money to fund around 160 blankets to the city’s homeless population, this month. The initiative was led by advocate Sahil Bhalaik in collaboration with two friends from the social sector.

Jones Day has promoted NLSIU Bangalore 2003 graduate Karthik Kumar to its partnership.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas partner Vidyut Gulati will join Cairn India on 22 December 2015 as its general counsel (GC).

Symbiosis Law School alumnus Aninda Pal joined Juris Corp as a partner in its mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and private equity (PE) practice from November 2015, according to a press release from the firm last week. Pal has worked in Trilegal as a counsel in its corporate legal team for more than eight years before this.

Legasis Partners associate partner Nishad Nadkarni has joined Khaitan & Co in Mumbai as a partner in its intellectual property (IP) practice.

Every year, law firms send out creative electronic (and paper) cards celebrating the festival of lights. This year, we’ve collected a few of the larger firms’ greetings that have found their way into our inbox.

Kanth & Associates added former HDFC Bank and Bank of Fujairah vice president Arvind Garg as a partner to build its banking and finance vertical.

Verus has added independent legal consultant Roochi Tripathy as a partner in Mumbai to focus solely on advising emerging businesses.