Hemant Singh (pictured) expands regulatory offering to Mumbai C harter Law Chambers, which was started by Praxis Counsel partner Hemant Singh earlier this year in Delhi as a regulatory shop, has opened a Mumbai office with three fee-earners. The office is based in the Fort area and is intended to se...

Saikrishna & Associates has hired Viacom18 Media senior vice president legal Thomas George and one team member to head it up to open up a Mumbai office, while also promoting five associate partners to partner, expanding its total partnership to 18.

Aquilaw has opened two offices in Mumbai today after absorbing JKB Legal and adding its managing attorney Jay Bhatia as partner in the firm.

Former HSA Advocates partners Sakya Chaudhuri, Avijeet Lala and Anand Shrivastava’s Delhi start-up Neeti Niyaman has expanded to Mumbai with the opening of a new office in Fort.

LexOrbis has opened a branch office in Mumbai with three lawyers, in order to assist existing clients in the Maharashtra.

TMT opened offices in Mumbai and Lucknow this month, taking its total tally of offices to nine – four out of which were set up in the last three months.

BMR Legal announced the induction of Kaushik Mukherjee, who was earlier a partner at J Sagar & Associates as the second partner based out of the firm’s Mumbai office.

Former Bennett Coleman chief manager legal and AZB alum Sunny Sablok has started M&A boutique firm Matrix Law in Mumbai.

Akshay Chudasama, senior partner in J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai, has handed in his notice and will be Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas’ new Mumbai managing partner.

Shardul Shroff will start in Bangalore in the next month with between five or six partners aiming for a headcount of 30 to 35 fee-earners, while in Mumbai organic expansion through lateral hires would continue to grow to up to 100 lawyers by year-end.

Radhika Pereira, the founding partner of Dudhat Pereira & Associates, is set to join the upcoming Mumbai office of the expected Amarchand Mangaldas post-break-up firm of Shardul Shroff.

Amarchand Delhi’s Shardul Shroff is set to take two additional office spaces in Mumbai after mediation will end, including the soon-to-be-ex Nariman Point office of AZB & Partners.

The mediators between brothers Cyril and Shardul Shroff of Amarchand Mangaldas gave the green light for both to begin setting up new offices.

Intellectual property firm Singh & Singh has started an office in Mumbai in October 2014 headed by former a former Times Group legal head. The office is headed by managing partner Vanditta Malhotra Hedge, who was formerly the legal head of Radio Mirchi, and partner Ravina Rajpal, a lawyer at Ne...

Former Clifford Chance senior associate Rishi Gautam will join AZB & Partners in Mumbai as a corporate partner in January.

Platinum Partners has announced the promotion of Piusha Bose to partnership in Mumbai. The promotion will take effect from January 2015. This will take the strength of Platinum to five partners in the Mumbai region, after Ankit Majmudar joins from Wadia Ghandy to set up a Bangalore office. The Delhi...

S&R Associates Delhi partner Rajat Sethi has moved to the Mumbai office of the firm as a “strategic decision” to bolster the corporate and private equity practice of the firm, reported Bar & Bench . His move, increasing the partner headcount in Mumbai to three and reducing Delhi to five pa...

Advaya Legal has expanded its Mumbai footprint with Universal Legal Mumbai founding partner Sharanya G, only several months after starting a small Delhi office.

Phoenix Legal has shut down its Nariman Point and Lower Parel Mumbai offices and taken a bigger Churchgate office in place of both in the city.

Jaipur-based law firm Chir Amrit Legal LLP has opened an office in Fort, Mumbai on 7 September headed by its Jaipur corporate practice head and partner Ritu Soni.