Iqbal Khan Khaitan & Co has promoted M&A and private equity principal associate Iqbal Khan to associate partner level in Mumbai. Khan holds a JD from Columbia Law School and an LLB from the London School of Economics (LSE), having joined Khaitan in 2013 after working several years in New Y...

Amarchand Mangaldas partner Abhimanyu Bhattacharya, who resigned in July, has now joined Khaitan & Co as expected and as first reported by Legally India at the time.

AZB & Partners senior partner and chief executive officer (CEO) Abhijit Joshi will leave by 15 November.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has hired Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan attorney Alok Yadav as a partner in its Delhi litigation practice. The Delhi University graduate specialises in direct and indirect tax litigation and started his career with JB Dadachanji and Co in 2000. He is an expert in cust...

Trilegal has promoted Delhi litigation counsel Shankh Sengupta to equity partnership, as the firm’s 24th equity partner.

Penningtons Manches partner and India co-head Saionton Basu has joined US firm Duane Morris’ London corporate practice, according to a press release from the firm . The NLSIU Bangalore graduate had joined Penningtons, as it was then called, in 2011 from Platinum Partners in Delhi , where he had retu...

In an interview to UK legal magazine Legal Week, headlined as “Amarchand sizes up options for first international base as India’s unlevel playing field continues to frustrate”, Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff said that the firm was thinking about opening an office abroad. H...

Wadia Ghandy partner Vijay Sureka joined AZB & Partners as a senior associate in Mumbai on 1 October.

Impact Law Ventures partner Suhas Baliga left the firm in June to start up Innove Law.

Supreme Court advocate, Lok Sabha member and BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, speaking at a legal conference yesterday, said that she would ‘extend protection’ for Indian lawyers against the entry of foreign law firms to India.

Ernst & Young (EY India) executive director Amit Bhagat joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as a partner in the indirect tax practice with his team of 12 professionals.

Khaitan & Co hired independent counsel Hormaz Daruwalla as an equity partner in its indirect tax team, reported Bar & Bench . Daruwalla has over 27 years of experience practicing in the Bombay high court and tax tribunals, after graduating from GLC Mumbai. He began his career with Crawford...

Advaya Legal has expanded its Mumbai footprint with Universal Legal Mumbai founding partner Sharanya G, only several months after starting a small Delhi office.

AZB & Partners in Mumbai has promoted Vaidhyanadhan Iyer to its partnership.

IC Legal has hired Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) senior associate Sambhav Ranka as an equity partner in its Andheri office.

Verus has hired former Dua Associates and Tatva Legal manager Siddharth Bhavnani as a partner in Delhi. He will join the firm from 1 October, specialising in M&A, joint ventures and real estate. Bhavnani obtained his undergraduate in law from the University of Leicester in 2006, and then worked...

Clasis Law project finance partners Ishtiaq Ali and Damodara Rao have left to start their own firm, which is understood to be a five-partner, 10-lawyer start-up law firm.

Mustafa Motiwala, who joined Juris Corp in 2011 with his firm AM Law , has resigned as a partner at the firm, reported Bar & Bench . He was in charge of commercial, dispute resolution, intellectual property and real estate. In a little over a year, Juris Corp has seen the departure of Chennai h...

OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan, who was arrested early Tuesday in the AgustaWestland chopper deal case , has been produced before a court, which sent him to seven days Enforcement Directorate custody. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal sent Khaitan to ED custody aft...

DLA Piper India group partner and NLSIU Bangalore grad Biswajit Chatterjee has joined US firm Squire Patton Boggs.