Amity Delhi 2011 alumni Abhinav Hansaria, Archit Virmani and Tushar John started up corporate law firm Optimus Legal in Delhi, in May.

Phoenix Legal has hired Khaitan Sud & Partners partner Debarshi Dutta with senior associate Riddhi Sancheti and 2009-Nalsar grad Archisman Chaudhary into its Delhi litigation team.

The markets are picking up it looks like – here’s the round-up of what firms have been getting up to.

Khaitan Sud & Partners (KSP) has dissolved its motor accident claims (MACT) vertical with insurance litigation partner Ashutosh Singh and his team of three lawyers, who were handling it, leaving the firm.

Deals round-up of more than a dozen recent instructions.

Khaitan Sud & Partners has hired ex-Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company in-house lawyer Ashutosh Singh as insurance partner and promoted principal associate Deepak Khurana to partnership in litigation, according to legal website Bar & Bench . Khurana is a 2006 graduate from Delhi Unive...

Big project M&A in the project space with Desai & Diwanji and Amarchand, while a project finance take-out scheme keeps Dhir busy.

6 deals spanning private equity and high finance with Amarchand, AZB, Lexygen, Luthra, KSP, SNG…

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.

M&A and financings from the last three weeks starring Amarchand Mangaldas, AZB & Partners, J Sagar Associates (JSA), HSA Advocates, Khaitan & Co, Talwar Thakore & Associates, and Khaitan Sud & Partners.

Amarchand, Luthra, Khaitan, JSA, AZB, ARA, Rajani, HSA, KSP and Majmudar lead in the latest round-up of intercontinental multi-million dollar deals…

ICICI Lombard motor vehicles product manager Keshava Prashanth has joined Khaitan Sud & Partners as the Bangalore office’s partner-in-charge. His hire would take advantage of the “processes … developed with the help of DAC Beachcroft”, a UK insurance specialist firm, said the managing partner U...

More deals than you can shake a stick at in our handy round-up of deals activity, with dozens of firms keeping busy.

Corporate M&As continued to buttress law firm activity, while one NUJS graduate sweated it out with a high profile Delhi high court case. Khaitan & Co also kept busy in finance and capital markets, and projects and private equity proved solid.