Herbert Smith Freehills India practice chairman Chris Parsons will be walking 1260 km from the Gateway of India in Mumbai to Bangalore in 2015.

Majmudar & Partner senior associates Tejus Cherian and Vinod Kamath left the firm in April to start up corporate law firm CK Juris in Bangalore in June.

ALG India Law Offices litigation partner Jayant Kumar has joined Win Law Group – the over two months old IP and media law start-up of former MSD Pharma legal head Jaspreet Chandhok. Kumar will head Win’s IP practice. The NLU Jodhpur and George Washington University law school alum focussed on IP lit...

Indian law firms have taken a deeper interest in policy formulation in the last five years than they have before, however they are wary in a big way of being seen as “lobbyists”.

BMR Legal has opened an office in Bangalore with two partners from Themis Associates and their six-member team of lawyers.

Project finance boutique SJ Law opened up in Delhi in April, five years after former India Law Services partner Samir Jagad founded the firm in Mumbai.

I&S Associates co-founder Anuradha Iyer joined Tatva Legal as a partner in Mumbai, in the firm’s corporate practice, while the firm promoted three managers to partnership, reported legal website Bar & Bench . Iyer had set up I&S with Bakhtiar Sunavala in 2006 after her nine year stint...

DSK Legal has opened up in Pune, taking its national presence to four offices. The Pune office will be headed by Mumbai corporate partner Narendra Dingankar and will cater to corporate and real estate clients.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai associate partner Nishant K Singh joined Indus Law in Mumbai as partner in its corporate practice.

S&R Associates has promoted its Delhi corporate lawyer Mohit Gogia to partnership effective yesterday.

Krishnamurthy & Co (K Law) has promoted Gaurav Shrawat in Mumbai to associate partner in its corporate practice.

AZB & Partners Delhi office has promoted three of its lawyers to partnership, with Abhinav Ashwin, Sachin Mehta and Shuchi Sinha having been given the nod. Tax lawyer Ashwin had joined from Ernst & Young in 2008, after graduating in 2005 from NLSIU Bangalore. Sinha joined from P&A Law...

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has opened up in Chennai, adding a sixth office to its national presence as was announced in August. The firm will start with focussing on its tax and litigation practice in Chennai.

AZB & Partners Delhi partner Debashish Sankhari has resigned to look for a role which is “a mix of entrepreneurship and legal practice”, reported legal website Bar & Bench . Sankhari graduated from NLSIU Bangalore and joined the advocacy group of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative fo...

The Financial Times ’ Mumbai correspondent James Crabtree visits Amarchand Mumbai’s top husband and wife team Cyril and Vandana Shroff at their home, documenting their symbiotic working relationship, decorating nous and fondness for all things elephant-themed, for the business paper’s House & H...

Kapil Sapra & Associates (KSA) has started an office in Bangalore, transferring two lawyers from its head office in Delhi to the city.

Delhi-based IP boutique LexOrbis has promoted Deepak Sriniwas, Rajeev Kumar, Amaya Singh and Pooja Dodd to salaried partner.

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Kumar is the “key associate involved in all the patent matters” at Singh & Singh Law Firm LLP and has worked on cases in the pharmaceutical and technology fields, on matters such as the Novartis dispute and cases relating to fair, reasonable and non discriminatory (FRAND) patents, according to ...

Dua Associates has promoted three to equity partner and one to non-equity partner, reported Bar & Bench citing “reliable sources”. Dinesh Mathur and Vikram Dholakia were promoted in the litigation practice in Delhi, while Srinivas BR got the nod in Bangalore’s corporate practice. Senior associa...