DSK Legal partner Balbir Singh, who was appointed as one of six law firm lawyers to the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) external panel in September 2012, has resigned from the panel. Delhi partner Singh said that the panel appointment was ordinarily for three years but that he had decided to...

Wadia Ghandy partner Gaurav Singhi, who was promoted in April 2014 , has joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) as a partner. Mumbai partner Akshay Chudasama confirmed that Singhi would join the firm as a non-equity retained partner. The news was first reported by Bar & Bench earlier today. Singhi, a ...

Madhurima Mukherjee, who had left Luthra & Luthra a year ago, has joined AZB & Partners in Delhi as a capital markets partner, according to several authoritative sources.

Former Trilegal counsel and regulatory practice head Sakya Singha Chaudhuri has joined HSA Advocates as partner to head the firm’s regulatory practice. Chaudhuri left Trilegal in the last week of July and joined HSA in August.

Ran Chakrabarti, the co-founder of William Chakrabarti & Associates, has joined IndusLaw as a partner in Delhi from 1 August. UK educated, he began his career in London and Singapore at Ashurst and White & Case and moved to India in 2007 to join Amarchand Mangaldas, moving to legal process...

SNG & Partners partner S Babu has joined Economic Laws Practice (ELP) in Mumbai.

Clyde & Co Dubai aviation partner Sidanth Rajagopal joined the London office of Kaye Scholer with the same designation, reported Bar & Bench . The ILS Pune alumnus, who had also briefly worked at Clyde’s Indian best friend firm Clasis Law, told B&B : “This was a fantastic opportunity ...

Nishith Desai Associates has launched a mobile app for Android, Apple and Blackberry devices in a bid at “knowledge democratisation”.

Legal Matrix, a Hyderabad-based start-up law firm set up in 2011 by Aruna Kumari after leaving Fox Mandal Little, as it was then called, has merged into Kochhar & Co’s Hyderabad office with five lawyers.

Luthra & Luthra has promoted managing associates Anirban Bhattacharya and Lokesh Shah to its partnership in Delhi and Mumbai respectively, according to Bar & Bench . Bhattacharya, specialising in white collar crime, company law, litigation and arbitration, had joined the firm in 2006 from ...

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) has made up seven non-founding partners into equity, for the first time ever, in its 30th year of existence.

Trilegal advised US-based multimedia company Tribune’s Singapore arm in its Rs 161 crore ($27m) acquisition of What’s On India Media which was advised by V Law. Trilegal Bangalore partner Kosturi Ghosh acted for Tribune Digital Ventures – the Singapore arm. V Law founding partner Vivek Daswaney acte...

Amarchand Mangaldas lost steady client Adani Gas’ case in the Competition Commission of India which fined the company Rs 25.67 crore ($4.3m) on the complaint of the Faridabad Industries Association (FIA). FIA was advised by advocate Sharad Gupta. Amarchand Mumbai competition partner Nisha Kaur Ubero...

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai partner Vandana Pai Bharucha has left the firm for health reasons.

Three co-founding equity partners of PXV Law Partners, Deepto Roy, Mohit Abraham and GT Thomas Phillippe, are set to join Khaitan & Co as associate partners by 1 August.

Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor Anand Sinha joined Amarchand Mangaldas yesterday as senior advisor (financial services) in Mumbai.

SNG & Partners has opened an office in Singapore, permanently relocating associate partner Rahul Sud to the island state, in order to be closer to the firm’s banking clients and focus on in- and out-bound investment.

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai capital markets partner Abhimanyu Bhattacharya has left the firm on Saturday.

HSA Advocates has hired Abeezar Faizullabhoy as the firm’s 14th partner, according to a press release from the firm. Faizullabhoy was an equity partner at J Sagar Associates (JSA) until 2013, when he left to join Chennai-based ultra-mega power project Aditya Resources as CEO . HSA has offices in Del...