Legal Matrix, a Hyderabad-based start-up law firm set up in 2011 by Aruna Kumari after leaving Fox Mandal Little, as it was then called, has merged into Kochhar & Co’s Hyderabad office with five lawyers.

Delhi’s Singhania and Mumbai’s Rajani & Partners will become one firm of 100 lawyers and 20 partners.

Advani & Co will merge with Pune-based disputes firm Nehru & Co to create Advani Nehru & Co, reported the Economic Times today. Nehru founder Ranjan Nehru told the paper that there was a “vacuum in Pune when it comes to serving local corporate clients and we intend to plug that gap”. ...

Exclusive: Two-and-a-half-year old Argus Partners has merged with Mumbai-headquartered Udwadia & Udeshi to create 12-partner, 60-lawyer national firm, which will be managed by Argus co-founder Krishnava Dutt.

Exclusive: Mumbai-headquartered Advani & Co has merged with Delhi start-up Accendo Law Partners bringing in three new partners to fully operationalise the firm’s Delhi office that had started in February this year.

Lawyers have bedded down a fair few deals and strategic advances ahead of the Holi weekend and financial year-end.

DSK Legal will merge with 15-lawyer Bangalore litigation and real estate firm AKS Law Associates on 1 April, hoping also to ramp up the corporate offering to South India.

Exclusive: Link Legal has absorbed top-ranked mid-market capital markets boutique Zenith India Lawyers, with erstwhile Zenith managing partner Raj Rani Bhalla relocating from Gurgaon to the young Mumbai office to increase growth.

One-and-a-half years after merging with Anup S Shah law firm in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, AZB & Partners and Anup Shah and his firm have decided to part ways as “best friends”.

Rodney Ryder has merged his practice with young start-up law firm ANM Global, spinning off his Scriboard company into a separate entity for legal education.

Coinciding with Paras Kuhad Associates’ demerger from Hemant Sahai Associates, Paras Kuhad spin-off firm Vidhii Partners has merged with Bangalore firm Harsha & Co, acquired Mumbai office space and is training its sights on creating a pan-Indian litigation firm.

Hemant Sahai Associates and Paras Kuhad & Associates have merged to create a firm of over 100 lawyers and streamlined office locations, following significant headcount reductions.

Bangalore and Chennai-based Atman Law Partners has inked an alliance with Delhi start-up Salvus Partners. The firms hope that the partnership will lead to a full merger in the next six months.