Khaitan & Co has cut down its working week to Monday to Friday, while increasing the daily working hours by one hour from 1 March.

Samvad partners promoted senior associates Ashwini Vittalachar and Apurva Jayant to the partnership effective 1 April, taking its total number of partners to 9. Delhi-based Vittalachar handles general corporate, M&A, private equity and employment law work at the firm. She is a ULC Bangalore 200...

Herbert Smith Freehills London senior associate Rajesh Chavda, will join Luthra & Luthra as a partner in its Delhi infrastructure and natural resources practice in April 2015.

With Amarchand Mangaldas having agreed to break up into two firms by 1 April after a public Bombay high court battle over a family inheritance and control of the firm, we took a closer look at the few Indian lawyers who’ve sued other lawyers.

Trilegal has moved to a bigger office in Delhi, leaving its Kailash Colony space for a space in DLF South Court, Saket, which can accommodate 160 people instead of the current 100, reported Bar & Bench . Trilegal partner Anand Prasad told B&B that the firm is looking to make lateral hires ...

Boutique intellectual property (IP) firms Lall & Sethi and Singh & Singh have merged to form the nine-partner, 27-lawyer firm SIngh & Singh Lall & Sethi effective 1 April, reported Bar & Bench . Lall & Sethi managing partner Chander Lall told B&B that “the new firm...

Khaitan & Co Mumbai-based partner Haigreve Khaitan has said that the family’s Swiss HSBC Bank account was set up as a way of legally and transparently diversifying their investments abroad but was closed after only a few years.

Juris Corp capital markets partner Sonali Sharma has left the firm, leaving only five partners after years of senior level attrition.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) Delhi intellectual property ( IP) partner Rahul Beruar, and his team of two LKS lawyers, has joined Clasis Law in Delhi. Beruar has joined as partner. The CLC Delhi 2002 alum started his career at Akash Chittranshi & Associates and left it as an IP partner ...

In addition to managing corporate associate promotions Geeta Dhania and Vishal Yaduvanshi , whose promotions to partnership Legally India reported over the last two weeks, Luthra & Luthra has announced the promotions of partner designates Abdullah Hussain and Ashish Prasad to full partnership t...

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Nandish Vyas, together with senior associates Kunal Doshi and Tushar Raut, and associate Natasha Sethna, will today join the firm that was started by former AZB CEO Abhijit Joshi in November . Vyas’ joining was first reported by Bar & Bench in December, with h...

Luthra & Luthra will promote corporate managing associate Vishal Yaduvanshi with effect of 1 February, according to an authoritative source, following Legally India ’s report earlier this week of the upcoming promotion of Geeta Dhania . Yaduvanshi was based in Luthra’s Mumbai office but moved t...

Narayan Iyer, who had left Linklaters Singapore in 2009 to join the magic circle firm’s best friend Talwar Thakore & Associates, has been appointed as head of the India practice.

Luthra & Luthra Delhi managing associate Geeta Dhania will be promoted to partnership on 1 February, confirmed authoritative sources, with other promotions to be announced shortly. Dhania will head the firm’s Delhi capital markets practice, which is headed by Luthra Mumbai capital markets partn...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi and Mumbai regions, managed by brothers Shardul and Cyril Shroff respectively, have agreed to split into two firms by 1 April 2015, confirmed three independent sources.

PDS Legal, the law firm closely allied to Big Four consultancy Ernst & Young (E&Y), is set to boost its M&A practice with the arrival of Desai & Diwanji Mumbai partners Monika Deshmukh and Vihang Virkar.

The firm started in 2012 by former ELP associate partners Ritesh Kanodia and Udayan Choksi with former Bharucha & Partners SA Amey Nargolkar has merged with former KPMG deputy DEO Dinesh Kanabar’s two-month old start-up.

“)Khaitan Sud partners Mrinal Ojha and Trinath Tadakamalla joined Phoenix Delhi in lit, while in Mumbai it promoted counsel Kartikeya Singh to partnership.

Intellectual property firm Singh & Singh has started an office in Mumbai in October 2014 headed by former a former Times Group legal head. The office is headed by managing partner Vanditta Malhotra Hedge, who was formerly the legal head of Radio Mirchi, and partner Ravina Rajpal, a lawyer at Ne...

Economic Laws Practice advised Tano India Private Equity Fund II on its investment in MSH Sarees, which owns the Jashn brand and was advised by BMR Legal. ELP partner Suhail Nathani, associate partner Vinayak Burman, senior associate Archana Khosla and associates Amoolya Narayan and Trishna Sharma a...