L ink Legal India Law Services has aqui-hired the compliance practice of SD Services founder Prasanta Sahu as a partner, together with team member Rajan Dubey , who is also joining as a partner. Both are based in Chennai and specialise in “compliance audit and management services through a technolog...

Apurva Jayant moves from Luthra to JSA J Sagar Associates (JSA) has hired Apurva Jayant , a corporate partner who had recently left L&L Partners, as a partner in its Mumbai office. Way before having been a partner at Samvad Partners and then Luthra & Luthra, as it was called in 2016 when s...

Luthra litigation promotions L&L Partners has promoted Rudresh Singh to salaried partner level and five managing associates to partner designate. The new partner designates are: Anugrah Robin Frey, Shikher Deep Aggarwal, Aditya Vikram, Abhishek Ghai, and Prithvi Sindhu. Another four senior asso...

Day 2 in Delhi HC 12 November 2020, 15:38 : Day 2 in Saraf’s submissions have just started. Bar & Bench is live tweeting the hearing. 17:12 : After reiterating many of the arguments already made by Saraf in internal emails, his counsel Parag Tripathi concludes, according to B&B : To sum up...

The turnover at L&L Partners’ corporate partnership (excluding the separate litigation and other partnerships) had increased by 12% between the 2018-19 and the 2019-20 financial years, revealed court filings by senior partner Mohit Saraf in the Delhi high court dispute with managing partner Rajiv Luthra.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Asim Abbas is due to join L&L Partners in Delhi, according to two sources.

Veritas Legal has promoted Neveille Mukerji as a partner in Mumbai’s dispute resolution practice.

S urprising very few people, the mediation between the co-founding partners of L&L Partners, Rajiv Luthra and Mohit Saraf, has apparently yielded no constructive results, as the Delhi high court on Monday ordered Saraf’s Section 9 petition to proceed on Friday (6 November) and Monday (9 Novembe...

Bhatikar joins Phoenix from Legasis L egasis Partners partner Gautam Bhatikar , who had joined in July 2019 , has moved to Phoenix Legal as a partner, according to a press release from the firm yesterday, setting up a maritime and shipping practice in Mumbai. He has joined the firm on 2 November wit...

S&R Associates has made an unprecedented double lateral partner hire, getting J Sagar Associates (JSA) partners Divyanshu Pandey and Arpita Garg to staff its banking practice in Delhi with a team of three, according to a press release from the firm, after their move was first reported by Bar & Bench.

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Anoj Menon returns to DnD A ZB & Partners disputes partner Anoj Menon has joined Desai & Diwanji as a partner. Menon had moved to AZB in Mumbai in 2017 from Desai & Diwanji, where he was a partner. Last week, around 23 October, he rejoined Desai & Diwanji. We have reached out to ...

A fter having postponed the 2020 new recruits’ joining dates to 2021, L&L Partners has now promised to welcome all freshers by 12 November 2020 after the continuing and unresolved management turmoil at the firm had left hires on tenterhooks for weeks now. In a Zoom call held last evening betwee...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) has postponed the opening of its physical offices until 31 March 2021 “pending the resolution of the health crisis”, from when it will introduce a policy that will allow staff to work from home (WFH) and more flexibly, according to a press release from the firm earlier today.

Shonali Choudhry to join Luthras L&L Partners has hired Advani & Co partner Shonali Choudhry in Mumbai, we understand from two sources and as first reported by Bar & Bench . The 1999 NLSIU Bangalore graduate has spent just under a year at Luthra & Luthra in Mumbai in 2006 as a se...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has announced that its Gurgaon office would be open for optional business again, though there would be no compulsion on fee-earners to return. Dear Colleagues: After many months of enduring a difficult lockdown, we are glad to share that we are finally re-opening our office ...

The Delhi high court today did not interfere in the partnership dispute between L&L Partners co-founders Rajiv Luthra and Mohit Saraf, ordering both parties to continue mediating until 1 November, reported Bar & Bench.

Trilegal’s partnership has completed the vote to induct Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Mumbai-based litigation partner, Nitesh Jain, as an equity partner.

Prateek Mishra goes independent in Delhi L &L Partners Mumbai-based litigation managing associate, Prateek Mishra, has left to become an independent advocate in Delhi. The 2013 NLIU Bhopal graduate had joined the firm after his 2014 LLM at Queen Mary, University of London. “After almost 7 years...

Two corporate partners at L&L Partners have given their notice to resign ahead of today’s court hearing following at least two days of mediation.