DSK Legal managers Hemang Parekh, Pragya Dhamija and Chandrima Mitra have been promoted to associate partner while no full partners were made this year, reported Bar & Bench.

Parekh and Dhamija specialise in corporate, while Mitra focuses on media and entertainment.

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Kalpana Merchant is leaving to pursue opportunities on her own, confirmed AZB senior partner Bahram Vakil today.

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Shuva Mandal has resigned from the firm and will join Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in Mumbai.

Legal diversity NGO Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access’ (IDIA) Mumbai chapter organised the second season of the IDIA Football League (IFL) on 5 and 6 September at Kamla Mills Ground in Lower Parel, Mumbai. Star TV’s legal team bested Trilegal to win the tournament.

According to a press release from the Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM), yesterday was “an important day for the firm” after it has announced the “newly formed CAM governance structure for the practice areas, the constitution of various committees” which will be effective immediately and “form the framework that will help us move towards the aspirations we have set for ourselves”.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai capital markets partner Kaushik Mukherjee has resigned from the firm to join BMR Legal, reported Bar & Bench . CORRECTION: The earlier report erroneously stated that Mukherjee would join BMR. Mukherjee has clarified that “the statement that I have accepted an off...

Amity Delhi 2011 alumni Abhinav Hansaria, Archit Virmani and Tushar John started up corporate law firm Optimus Legal in Delhi, in May.

Hammurabi & Solomon opened in Patna on 24 August, adding its fourth national office in addition to Delhi, Mumbai and Ranchi.

Former Reliance Industries (RIL) senior in house counsel Rahul Dutt has joined Khaitan & Co as a corporate partner in Mumbai. The GLC Mumbai and University of Leicester UK alumnus Dutt, who was with RIL for over 13 years, commented in Khaitan’s press release: “I have been considering joining a ...

Senior Mumbai Trilegal partner Amit Tambe will leave the firm.

In April earlier this year, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) acquired three out of four MNK Law Offices partners in Delhi but three authoritative sources have confirmed that the fourth partner, Probal Bhaduri, has now joined PDS Legal offices in Delhi.

Mumbai private equity boutique ARA Law has promoted two principal associates, Rowena De Sousa and Avik Karmakar, to salaried partner level.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has finished its executive committee election, inducting three new members into the now-seven-strong committee, according to the firm’s press release.

TMT Law Practice has opened offices in Kolkata and Bangalore, taking its total office count to four including Delhi and Chennai. The Kolkata office, in the Government Place Building, is headed by TMT Delhi partners Abhishek Malhotra and Kaushik Moitra and has three associates. It will focus on TMT, ...

Former Luthra & Luthra Delhi litigation partner Ashish Prasad is now a partner in Economic Laws Practice’ Delhi disputes practice, according to a press release from the firm. Prasad, who was poached by ELP from Luthra , is the sixth partner in ELP’s Delhi office, after counting associate partne...

The proposal for phased liberalisation of Indian legal services has not crossed the Bar Council of India (BCI) hurdle, India told the World Trade Organisation (WTO), reported The Hindu Businessline . WTO’s periodic trade policy review of its member countries threw up questions posed by other members...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has unveiled its new logo and high-powered strategic advisory board today.

Former MNK associate Abhijit Mittal and his law school friend advocate Dhruv Rohatgi, have started ADAZ Law Chambers.

Former JDS Law Chambers founding partner Jivesh Chandrayan merged his firm into Kochhar & Co and joined Kochhar as a partner in its Delhi corporate practice. The Delhi university LLB and Cardiff University LLM graduate Chandrayan commented in Kochhar’s press release: “I am excited to be part of...

Khaitan Sud & Partners (KSP) is facing a recovery suit in the Saket district court, Delhi, filed by its former senior associate Pankaj Kumar for the arrears of his retainership fee.