Hogan Lovells has poached Squire Patton Boggs India group co-chair and capital markets partner Biswajit Chatterjee into its corporate and finance practice in Singapore, according to the firm’s press release.

L&L Partners co-founder and former senior partner Mohit Saraf, who had won a Rs 77 crore-value settlement in a protracted arbitration and Delhi high court dispute and separation with fellow co-founder Rajiv Luthra, will announce the setting up of his own rival firm today, we understand according to multiple market sources.

JurisCorp equity partners in its banking practice, Delhi-based Nand Gopal Anand and Mumbai-baseed Pratish Kumar, have joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) as partners in its Gurugram and Mumbai offices repsectively, according to a firm release.

Ipsita Chowhury joins JSA as partner T rilegal counsel Ipsita Chowdhury has joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) in Gurgaon as a salaried partner. According to a JSA release, her mentoring partner at JSA is Rupinder Malik. The 2010 GLC Bombay graduate has worked at Trilegal since 2014, making counsel in ...

HSA Advocates has hired Ravi Jain from Economic Laws Practice (ELP) as a partner in its projects, energy & infrastructure practice.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Sameer Chugh as Delhi-based corporate and technology, media & telecommunication (TMT) and regulatory partner.

Khaitan & Co has bolted on the Chennai-based law firm Assentio Legal, which had been started by Thriyambak Kannan, Rohan Cherian and Renu Gopalakrishnan, who will join from 1 July with their team in Khaitan’s Chennai and Bengaluru offices.

AZB & Partners has hired L&L Partners Mumbai-based partner Avinash Subramanian as a partner in its restructuring, IBC and structured finance practice in Mumbai.

HSA Advocates has hired Advaita Legal partner Shailendra Kumar Singh, counsel Alok Shankar and principal Monali Dutta as partners in HSA’s Delhi office with their teams of another seven fee-earners.

C yril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) head of international tax and director Daksha Baxi has started up her own firm, SRI Solutions , in Mumbai, according to her LinkedIn profile. She had joined CAM in 2018 from Khaitan & Co. Her daughter, Pooja Baxi-Patel who had joined CAM at the same time as Baxi...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Desai & Diwanji Mumbai partner Ketaki Gor Mehta as a partner in its new office in the Gandhinagar-based office in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), which it had announced in early May 2021 (alongside IC Universal Legal also opening in the city).

Pallavi Banerjee moves from JSA to Trilegal T rilegal has continued expanding its finance footprint, with J Sagar Associates (JSA) corporate and finance retained partner Pallavi Banerjee having been hired to join as a counsel in Mumbai, we reliably understand. The 2013 NUJS Kolkata graduate had been...

T rilegal and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) have continued the small-scale war of partner attrition, with Mumbai-based banking and finance partners Pranav Sharma and Mallika Chopra in the process of being voted into the Trilegal partnership, Bar & Bench reported. CAM managing partner Cyril Sh...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has re-hired Rutu Gandhi as a partner in its financial regulatory practice (FRP) in Mumbai.

IndusLaw has in Bengaluru recruited Bharadwaj Jaishankar as a partner in its intellectual property practice.

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) London-based India litigation head Nick Peacock, who had been with the firm for more than 20 years, has joined Bird & Bird and will head up its international arbitration team from London.

Bengaluru-based Tatva Legal co-founding partner Manav Nagaraj will be joining Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) with his team, including partner Bhargava KS, we have reliably learned.

The general counsel (GC) of Tata Sons, Shuva Mandal, is set to exit for Mumbai-based start-up law firm Anagram Legal, which we understand he has been instrumental in setting up, according to three sources with authoritative knowledge of the news.

IndusLaw has added yet another lateral hire partner with employment law principal associate Vaibhav Bhardwaj joining the firm in Delhi.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has hired AZB & Partners counsel Vinay Butani as a partner in its corporate commercial practice, while promoting 17 others into senior non-equity-partner-equivalent roles.