FoxMandal Little has acted as lender’s counsel on the Rs 2224 crores ($515mn) ONGC Tripura Power Company project finance documentation acting for Power Finance Corporation. The firm was instructed in September 2009, with Delhi senior partner B N Banerjee, and senior associate Rajesh Sehgal and assoc...

FoxMandal Little’s London office has hired UK MP Keith Vaz as a “brand ambassador”, while the firm’s similar commercial retainer with its previous London consultant and former High Court judge has ended.

Crawford Bayley has picked up the latest Government disinvestment mandate for India’s single largest iron ore producer and exporter National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), following Amarchand Mangaldas, Fox Mandal Little and Luthra & Luthra bagging the three other disinvestments of the past four months.

FoxMandal Little Delhi has hired KR Chawla & Co’s corporate head and the general counsel (GC) of Patni Computer Systems as partners. Several senior partners have also entered into a sale-and-leaseback of the firm’s Noida head-office to steady its cashflow.

Two more FoxMandal Little Delhi partners have resigned and started a new full-service law firm with two other FoxMandal partners who left the firm earlier this year.

Are you still an Indian advocate if you are abroad? For the purposes of India’s National Law Day Awards this year, yes: Singhania & Co London office managing partner Vijay Goel and FoxMandal London partner Ajit Mishra have won the prize, alongside Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff.

FoxMandal Little Delhi partner K.A. Najmi has joined project finance specialist firm India Law Services as a partner to head its Delhi office.

FoxMandal Little Delhi’s senior real estate partner Saroj Jha has resigned. The news follows this week’s the resignation of five associates and the firm’s corporate head Vineet Aneja, with two senior associates set to join Aneja at Luthra & Luthra.

Natural wastage is one of those great euphemisms that UK and US firms have been fond of during the downturn. Lawyers leave for various reasons, do not get replaced and the firm saves costs (and face) by avoiding lay-offs.

Luthra & Luthra has hired FoxMandal Little corporate partner Vineet Aneja in Delhi.

AZB, DSK and Trilegal have done well in Asia Pacific private equity deal rankings despite heavily depressed values and volumes this year.

FoxMandal Little’s Delhi office has paid its fee-earners the salaries it owed them, after the firm was unable to pay for two months due to cash flow difficulties.

Two staff were murdered in FoxMandal Little’s Bangalore office early on Sunday morning. The firm has closed its office there for the day as a mark of respect.

Late salary payments are nothing new for some lawyers.

“It’s a regular feature at some firms and the reason is that the managing partner might not feel like signing cheques on some days,” muses one Delhi partner.

FoxMandal Little has not been able to pay fee-earners in Delhi their salaries as the office faces a liquidity crisis.

Long delays in recovering fees has become an increasing a problem for law firms whose clients are caught in the credit crunch, most recently preventing FoxMandal Little in Delhi from paying some of its staff their salaries.

“Lock-up is a big issue for most firms these days in particular collections on long-overdue invoices,” says Kerma Partners legal consultant Friedrich Blase in New York and adds: “It’s become harder for firms to collect on the work produced.”

call_centre_vlima_com_th London paper the Evening Standard has run a scare story on legal jobs going to India today, which makes a welcome change on the paper’s usual stories on transport chaos and terrorism. FoxMandal Little’s (FML) outsourcing arm in particular, will supposedly be single-handedly ...

FoxMandal Little has hired a partner to head its New Delhi intellectual property (IP) practice of three lawyers.

Vinay Dwarkadas joined from Khaitan & Co’s Mumbai office where he was a senior associate.

Dwarkadas (pictured) said that he hoped to greatly expand the existing IP practice at FoxMandal: “I have to be its backbone and want to take it forward for years to come. I plan to be here for a long time.”