Law firms

JSA bets on sports, media with Vidhii media & ex-UTV head

UFC
UFC
J Sagar Associates (JSA) to go big on media and sports – including the violent kind - with Nandini Mehta.

Clasis down two as Clydes lateral partner rejoins best friend

Clasis Law aviation partner Sidhanth Rajagopal, who joined the firm in Delhi from best friend relationship firm Clyde & Co London where he was a senior associate, has returned to Clydes as an equity partner after less than two years in India. Clasis partner Vineet Aneja told legal website Bar &...

Allen & Overy promotes 2000-NLS-batch Gautam Narasimhan to partner in Singapore

Singapore
Singapore
Magic circle law firm Allen & Overy promotes 2001 NLSIU Bangalore graduate and banking counsel Gautam Narasimhan.

Amarchand Delhi lit partner VP Singh moves to Mumbai office

VP Singh
VP Singh
Singh will relocate this month to ramp up Mumbai’s disputes practice.

JSA partnership elects 5 out of 9 candidates to its executive committee

Amit Kapur
Amit Kapur
J Sagar Associates’ (JSA) executive committee vote brings together five veterans for the job.

HSA promotes Harvinder Singh to partnership, 2 associate partners, 4 SAs, 1 COO

HSA Advocates has elevated partner-designate Harvinder Singh – one of the two people promoted to the firm’s principal associate-equivalent designation last year – to its partnership effective 1 April 2013.

AZB to elevate Nilanjana Singh & Nandish Vyas in Mumbai

Ladder
Ladder
Selection process at firm still continuing.

JSA equity partner Abeezar Faizullabhoy resigns for CEO-ship in Chennai power project

Power Project
Power Project
JSA partner to power ultra-mega-power project as CEO.

ALMT promotes Subashini Radhakrishnan to partnership in Mumbai, grows to 95 lawyers

Express Towers
Express Towers
ALMT Express Towers partnership at 10; globally 20.

Vaish promos 5 principal & 8 senior associates

Career ladder
Career ladder
No new partners in Vaish’s annual promotions this year-end, but five new principal associates and eight new senior associates.

JSA adds 2 equity partners, swells salaried partner ranks by 18 post Jyoti exit [UPDATE]

Sudarsan
Sudarsan
Bumper crop of salaried partner promotions at JSA.

3 Delhi associate partners at Khaitan as equity promos to be out in a month

Khaitan & Co has begun the month-long process of evaluating which existing associate partners will be inducted into the firm’s equity partnership across offices, after promoting a total of five principal associates in Mumbai and Delhi to associate partner level effective today (1 April).

3 fresh lateral partners join Seth Dua: HSA's Salman Waris, Vaish's Gautam Chopra, indie VK Aggarwal

Salman Waris
Salman Waris
Seth Dua & Associates bags three new partners in competition, TMT & tax.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai promotes two AZB laterals to associate partner

Principal associates Adheesh Nargolkar and Niren Patel, specialising in intellectual property (IP) and in corporate and M&A respectively, were given the nod to the pre-equity associate partner rung, legal website Bar & Bench reported today. Nargolkar began working at WS Kane & Co as a...

Vineetha MG joins Narasappa Doraswamy Raja to create Samvād Partners

Vineetha MG
Vineetha MG
NDR + AZB alum MG = new national firm Samvad Partners.

Ravi Kumar, 3rd Alliance founder, joins Amarchand Mumbai as senior consultant

Amarchand-Mumbai-full
Amarchand-Mumbai-full
Kumar to join team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff in Mumbai on 5 April.

Clasis co-founder Shalini Agarwal quits, starts legal ‘embassy’ firm in London

Shalini Agarwal
Shalini Agarwal
Agarwal sets up India-UK law firm-consultancy hybrid.

Foreign lawyer entry: Bar Assoc India prez Divan calls for ‘meaningful dialogue’ & resolution post budget thaw

Senior counsel Anil Divan wants practical position paper on liberalisation from government.

Seth Dua partner Rahul Goel joins Dhir & Dhir as partner, to build trade, comp, TMT

Goel
Goel
Exclusive: Former Seth Dua & Associates partner Rahul Goel has joined Dhir & Dhir Associates as a retained partner with Seth Dua senior associate Anu Monga. Goel will set up new practices at Dhir handling competition, anti-dumping and international trade, and advisory technology, media and telecommunications (TMT).

ALMT’s Preeti Balwani takes up Khaitan Sud partnership & corp mantle under ex-PwC tie-up

Preeti Balwani
Preeti Balwani
ALMT Legal senior associate Preeti Balwani has joined Khaitan Sud & Partners (KSP) as a salaried partner to head up its Mumbai office and drive its corporate practice under a best friendship with a business consultancy started up by an ex-PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) director.