Former Bennett Coleman chief manager legal and AZB alum Sunny Sablok has started M&A boutique firm Matrix Law in Mumbai.

Kochhar & Co has hired former associate director legal (South Asia) of the Carlson Rezidor Group, Sumit Phatela, as a partner in its Gurgaon office’s corporate, banking and finance practice. Phatela was previously working with the office of general counsel of Ernst & Young India, and had b...

Dua Associates Mumbai partner Vinod Joseph has joined Bennett, Coleman & Co division Brand Capital as head legal, leaving Dua’s Mumbai office with only two partners. Joseph, who joined the Times Group-owned Brand Capital which funds growth-oriented enterprises, according to his Linkedin profile...

Dua Associates Mumbai partner Vinod Joseph has joined Bennett, Coleman & Co division Brand Capital as head legal, leaving Dua’s Mumbai office with only two partners. Joseph, who joined the Times Group-owned Brand Capital which funds growth-oriented enterprises, according to his Linkedin profile...

Trilegal counsel Nitish Nair will join multinational hospitality giant Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which owns such hotel brands as the Westin, Sheraton and Le Méridien, as its associate director legal, South Asia.

Amarchand Mangaldas partner Cyril Shroff is in advanced talks to take on the former Religare, GENPACT and GE Cap GC as a future Delhi partner.

Cipla global general counsel (GC) and former Khaitan & Co partner Murali Neelakantan, has resigned in order to focus on a variety of policy, education and other projects, while also set to become an independent director of a former long-standing client.

Reliance Industries (RIL) Exploration & Production head legal, Naveen Raju, has joined Mahindra & Mahindra as its new group general counsel (GC).

The Economic Times ’ research arm, the ET Intelligence Group, surveying more than 1,800 listed companies, has revealed that their legal spend was Rs 21,906 crore ($3.5bn) in the 2013-14 financial year, an increase of more than 17.5 per cent on last year. Out of the five biggest spenders on legal fee...

Standard Chartered deputy head of legal Sapan Gupta has moved to Bajaj Finance as its first chief legal officer. At Bajaj Finance he will be responsible for setting up the formal legal function, reporting directly to the non-banking financial company’s (NBFC) CEO. His work will include finance and c...

The Vedanta Group’s former general counsel Ajit Yadav has started up the law firm Lexaya Partners four months ago, reported Bar & Bench . Lexaya Partners is a corporate and business law advisory firm according to his Linked-in profile , focusing on corporate law, power, infrastructure, ports, n...

Trilegal counsel Rachika Sahay has joined global oil and gas services company Weatherford as its sole legal counsel in India.

Former MSD Pharmaceuticals and Yahoo India legal head Jaspreet Singh Chandhok started up intellectual property (IPR) and media law firm Win Law Group on 1 April, in Delhi and Mumbai.

Chetan Nagendra, a former in-house lawyer at Facebook, has set up a start-up law firm in Bangalore, reported Bar & Bench . Nagendra graduated from NLSIU Bangalore and had previously also worked as an associate at Amarchand Mangaldas for three years, followed by a stint as regional counsel at Di...

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Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has hired Bharti Airtel general counsel Jyoti Pawar to head its telecommunications, media and technology practice (TMT) in Delhi.

While hourly rates continue to increase and add up, the quality of India’s legal advice unfortunately continues to spiral downwards. Affronted? Well, you should be.

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.

The Ideas Exchange in association with Lex Witness presented The 4th Annual Legal Counsel Congress focused on helping GC’s and Heads of Legal work towards attaining greater operational excellence and preparing them for the legal department of the future. Followed by the 2nd edition of the Legal Counsel India Awards created to recognise honour the excellence amongst the corporate legal fraternity.

Exclusive: Infosys legal head Samuel Mani and senior Infosys legal heads Utham Chengappa and Neil Mathur have quit to start a technology-focused law firm together.

Infosys, meanwhile, is understood to be finalising the appointment of new legal heads as former in-houser Gautam Rohidekar has returned to the company.