Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) is closing its three-year-old London office, after the UK’s negotiations to leave the European Union (EU) have proved more hairy than anyone could have anticipated.

UK firm Penningtons Manches LLP India group co-head Ajit Mishra, has joined London-based Rosenblatt Solicitors as the head of its India group.

2001 GLC Mumbai graduate and Clifford Chance London senior associate Amer Siddiqui has joined Simmons & Simmons as a partner in its capital markets team.

Linklaters has promoted managing associate and NLSIU Bangalore 2005 graduate Kanyaka Ramamurthi to partner, as reported by The Lawyer.

Prem Mohan, who had graduated in 2007 from NLSIU Bangalore, has been promoted to partner in Kirkland & Ellis London office in the financial services regulatory practice.

Linklaters has promoted Linklaters London managing associates Sushil Jacob to counsel today. Jacob specialises in banking, finance and corporate, having recently advised, according to a Linklaters press release: Barclays Bank on the sale of the entirety of its banking business in Pakistan to Habib B...

Penningtons Manches partner and India co-head Saionton Basu has joined US firm Duane Morris’ London corporate practice, according to a press release from the firm . The NLSIU Bangalore graduate had joined Penningtons, as it was then called, in 2011 from Platinum Partners in Delhi , where he had retu...

Clyde & Co Dubai aviation partner Sidanth Rajagopal joined the London office of Kaye Scholer with the same designation, reported Bar & Bench . The ILS Pune alumnus, who had also briefly worked at Clyde’s Indian best friend firm Clasis Law, told B&B : “This was a fantastic opportunity ...

Fox’ lawyers Penningtons asked the claimant to discontinue action in the UK or face paying Fox’s costs.

Fox Mandal has instructed London firm Penningtons Solicitors to defend against the Rs 96 lakh professional negligence default judgment.

Fox Mandal did not appear before court to respond to the claim that the firm gave negligent advice in a patent application.

Krishnamurthy & Co hopes to attract more UK and European clients from London.

London law firm Candey Parker Solicitors and Advocates looks to go global with new London office and ambition.

Exclusive: Fox Mandal Delhi’s London founding partner Ajit Mishra has resigned from the firm, as the firm has left its old office and moved into a new one in the UK’s financial capital.

Exclusive: ALMT Legal, following its split from Clyde & Co and a number of partners in April, has re-started offices in London and Delhi with two lateral hires joining as partners while Mumbai partners Sameer Tapia and Hitesh Jain will relocate part-time.

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.

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.

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 ...

ALMT Legal has formed a best friends relationship with UK international firm Clyde & Co.

In a joint statement the firms said that they would share information, harmonise training and set in place an extensive secondment programme.

ALMT partner S R Arun (pictured) said: “We anticipate that we will have access to the markets where Clyde is and that not many of the large magic circle firms have got access to.”