Exclusive: SNG & Partners and SN Gupta & Co – two separate partnerships that have respectively focused on transactional work in Mumbai and litigation in Delhi – merged into one firm of five equity and 17 non-equity partners this week, having recently absorbed offices in seven new cities and started a tax practice.

Exclusive: Naik Paranjpe & Co name partner Ashok Paranjpe and his team have joined former JSA partner Nishit Dhruva’s start-up MDP & Partners, hiking the partnership there to six as the firm will quadruple its floorspace with a new Ballard Estate office.

AZB & Partners is relocating one of its Mumbai partners to Bangalore to ease the office’s integration process after the merger with Anup Shah’s local practice last month.