Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) is opening an office in Kolkata under former Amarchand Mangaldas partner Niloy Pyne.

Linklaters India partner set to join Magic Circle rival.

Talwar Thakore & Associates partner will re-join Links.

Wadia Ghandy promoted three lawyers – Nihas Basheer, Anand Shah and Manish Vora - to partner level, as first reported by Bar & Bench . The promotions were announced today and take retrospective effect from 1 April, Wadia Ghandy managing partner Ashish Ahuja told Legally India . Basheer, who spe...

Kelley Drye has promoted NLSIU Bangalore graduate Deepak Nambiar to its partnership in New York.

Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Citibank former South Asia general counsel Sandip Beri as a partner in Delhi.

Amarchand Mangaldas has made 13 new partners this year, with seven in Delhi and five in Mumbai.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) and Amarchand Mangaldas swap corporate lawyers into partnership.

After Dr Amardeep Kainth’s death this year, the management of Dr Kainth & Associates, the firm he had founded in 1995, has passed to former partner Anupama Venugopal.

Former Kainth & Associates partner Satish Srinivasan joined ALMT Legal as a partner in Bangalore in its general corporate practice effective today.

Trilegal did not make any new partners this year but promoted senior associates Upasana Rao and Nitish Nair to counsel in Delhi. There were no promotions to counsel in the Mumbai region.

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi principal associate Kirat Singh Nagra will replace former Economic Laws Practice (ELP) litigation head and partner Tarun Gulati.

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai principal associate Satyam Sharat will join Ashurst’s Jakarta office as a foreign legal consultant in a month. He specialises in banking, having joined Amarchand in 2006 from JurisCorp after graduating from NLIU Bhopal in 2005. Ashurst India head Richard Gubbins said: “We ...

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate partners Amita Choudhary and Aysswarya Murthy are set to leave the firm.

Khaitan & Co promos Abhishek Sharma & Avaantika Kakkar to equity in Mumbai, hires start-up litigator Rahul Sahay in Delhi.

Pramod Rao, the founder partner of IndusLaw’s Mumbai office and former general counsel (GC) of ICICI Bank, will join Citibank India as its GC in July.

Amarchand Mangaldas partner Suhaan Mukerji, who was responsible for the firm’s public policy and lobbying-style practice in Delhi, has resigned to focus on his work as expert advisor to Sam Pitroda, Office of Adviser to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations...

Finsec Law Advisors has hired Anil Choudhary from Trilegal as a senior associate to shore up its securities transactional practice. Choudhary graduated from Harvard Law School’s LLM programme in 2010, joined Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) in January 2011 and was at Trilegal between July 2012 and May...

Rachit Bahl, Nandita Govind and Ritika Rathi make salaried partner Delhi; Nilanjana Singh, Nandish Vyas confirmed in Mumbai.

Baring Private Equity Asia is set to take a minority stake in cement maker Lafarge India for $265m (Rs 1400 crore), with three domestic firms and two foreign law firms advising on the deal. Lafarge was represented domestically by AZB & Partners on law and BMR & Associates on tax issues, wi...