PSA Legal partner Neeraj Dubey joined Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) as a joint partner in the Bangalore office on Thursday. He will head Bangalore’s corporate practice.

Khaitan & Co consultant Abhishek Awasthi, who had joined in August 2014 from SRGR Law Offices where he was a partner, has joined AZB & Partners in Noida as a senior associate to expand its real estate team. AZB Delhi managing partner Ajay Bahl commented that the firm was “very pleased” wit...

AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Essaji Vahanvati will go part-time at the firm from tomorrow (15 January).

Karanjawala & Co has promoted principal associate Samarjeet Pattnaik to partnership, as first reported by Bar & Bench . The Symbiosis Pune 2002 alumni, who is with the firm since 2002, is the second partner in the firm’s criminal litigation practice which is currently headed by partner San...

Veritas Law Offices is advising Delhi-based non-banking financial company (NBFC) Intec Capital in its privately placement of Rs 50 crores of BSE-listed non-convertible debentures.

V Law Partners has merged with DH Law Associates to form a 10 partner, 50 lawyer firm.

Clasis Mumbai breakaway Orbit Law Offices has opened an Andhra Pradesh office – its third national office since starting up in October 2014. The Andhra office is in the state’s new capital, Vijaywada, and will be run by the firm’s lawyers Surya Mohan Yerramilli, Venkata Muralidhar Kandukuri and Bhar...

Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) promoted capital markets principal associate Gautham Srinivas to salaried partnership in Delhi. NLSIU 2004 alum Srinivas worked at Amarchand Mangaldas Bangalore and Chennai until June 2013 when he left the firm as a principal associate in the capital markets pra...

Khare Legal Chambers partner Abir Roy joined Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan as a joint partner in its Delhi competition practice on 2 January.

Former Khaitan & Co associate Yawar Dilawar Mir became the youngest candidate to win the Kashmir state assembly elections in December, reported the Tribune India . Mir had filed his nomination papers from the Rafiabad constituency on 20 November, reported Greater Kashmir , after his father – Pe...

DSK Legal Delhi corporate, competition and litigation partner Balbir Singh has resigned from the partnership to begin counsel practise in Delhi.

The deadline for filing the Bombay high court counter affidavit by Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff to rebut his brother Shardul’s case has been extended for the second time to 20 February 2015. The court-sanctioned mediation between the brothers has been extended too from it...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi, led by the region’s managing partner Shardul Shroff, has been in acquisition talks with lawyers and at least one law firm in cities falling under the management of Mumbai-based managing partner Cyril, as the two brothers have been embroiled in a protracted mediation that i...

Advani Nehru & Co, the 15-month-old Pune law firm formed by Advani & Co and Pune-based Nehru & Co, was dissolved on 15 December due to financial unviability. Advani & Co is in the process of finalising a merger with another firm in Pune while Nehru & Co has decided not to pu...

AZB & Partners has hired ex Indian Revenue Service (IRS) senior official KP Singh as a partner in Delhi to specialise in regulatory and indirect tax, who joined earlier today. “We were [eagerly] waiting for the government to give him his release,” said AZB Delhi managing partner Ajay Bahl. “We ...

Lalit Bhasin has written in a Business Standard column that he was now in favour of allowing the phased entry of foreign law firms…

The deadline for the affidavit that was due to be filed by Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff in the Bombay high court dispute with his brother over their late mother’s equity in the firm, has been extended by the court to 31 December 2014, coinciding with the deadline set for ...

AZB & Partners 2013-partner Nandish Vyas will join ex-AZB senior partner and CEO Abhijit Joshi who has started his own firm in Mumbai. Vyas, who was promoted to AZB’s partnership in 2013 and specialises in private equity and M&A, confirmed to Bar & Bench that he would be joining Joshi...

Former Clifford Chance senior associate Rishi Gautam will join AZB & Partners in Mumbai as a corporate partner in January.

HSA Advocates has promoted infrastructure, energy and corporate M&A associate partner Avirup Nag into its partnership. Infrastructure and finance lawyer Nilesh Chandra was elevated to associate partner level, according to a press release from the firm, which stated that the firm now has 17 part...