Mumbai-headquartered Vertices Partners has opened in Gurgaon, headed by partner Shraddha Ray Menon, who had merged her boutique Ray Menon Law into the firm in October.

Bharucha Singh & Partners has reverted into its pre-April 2019-merger constituents, Bharucha & Partners and Mundkur Law Offices.

Bangalore firm Mundkur Law Offices, which was set up in 2007 by Ramanand Mundkur, has merged its practice with Mumbai-headquartered Bharucha & Partners, under the new branding Bharucha Singh Mundkur (BSM).

HSA Advocates has expanded further in Bangalore by absorbing local firm Atman Law Partners, adding four new lawyers including partner Chinmay Mirji.

The April 2016 merger between Alliance Corporate Lawyers and Dhaval Vussonji & Associates has fallen apart, with the former operating as Alliance Law from 31 October.

Bangalore law firm MD&T Partners merged with litigation firm Equitas Legal on 1 October, to form a six-partner, 17 lawyer firm in the city.

Bangalore-headquartered law firm Universal Legal and Mumbai firm IC Legal have merged into IC Universal Legal Advocates & Solicitors, to become a seven-office firm of more than 100 fee-earners, including 15 partners.

Intellectual property (IP) powerhouse Anand & Anand has merged its Mumbai office with the media and entertainment law practice of Priyanka Khimani, Khimani & Associates, taking on a new avatar in the city carrying both brand names, as Anand and Anand & Khimani.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas is set to absorb all BMR Legal partners in Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore but one - founding partner Mukesh Butani.

Boutique IP, tech, media and telecommunications firm, TMT Law Practice, and DPSA Legal, a Delhi-based dispute resolution and corporate advisory firm founded by former additional advocate general DP Singh have merged to become Arthe Law.

IP powerhouse Singh & Singh & Lall & Sethi (SS&LS), just over two years after it was created in the merger of IP firms Singh & Singh and Lall & Sethi, will be breaking into two again after SS&LS managing partner Chander Lall is expected to get designated this year as a senior advocate by the Delhi high court.

Link Legal India Law Services (LL-ILS), which merged with DH Law Associates in December to form a 155-lawyer firm with a partnership of 35, has added Rajdeep Choudhury as an associate partner in its project claims practice.

Seth Dua & Associates (SDA) absorbed Alpha Partners to add the > Noida-based Alpha’s office as SDA’s Noida office and Alpha founding > partner Akshat Pande as SDA’s 12th partner.>> Alpha has a specialized practice in private equity, venture capital, > corporate, compliance management, intellect...

Intellectual property (IP) firm LexOrbis, which set up a Bangalore office in April, has merged with local IP boutique Inolyst, which was set up by Dilip Kumar.

Shardul Shroff, speaking for the first time to media since November 2014, had lined up a string of interviews yesterday with the mainstream media (MSM) and trade press, on the day of formally announcing the launch of his new firm to media and several days after his brother Cyril completed his round of interviews with the press.

Boutique intellectual property (IP) firms Lall & Sethi and Singh & Singh have merged to form the nine-partner, 27-lawyer firm SIngh & Singh Lall & Sethi effective 1 April, reported Bar & Bench . Lall & Sethi managing partner Chander Lall told B&B that “the new firm...

The firm started in 2012 by former ELP associate partners Ritesh Kanodia and Udayan Choksi with former Bharucha & Partners SA Amey Nargolkar has merged with former KPMG deputy DEO Dinesh Kanabar’s two-month old start-up.

V Law Partners has merged with DH Law Associates to form a 10 partner, 50 lawyer firm.

Advani Nehru & Co, the 15-month-old Pune law firm formed by Advani & Co and Pune-based Nehru & Co, was dissolved on 15 December due to financial unviability. Advani & Co is in the process of finalising a merger with another firm in Pune while Nehru & Co has decided not to pu...

Khaitan & Co has completed its acquisition of the practice and teams of three co-founding partners of PXV Law Partners.