Indirect tax boutique Nitya Tax Associates has opened an office in Bangalore and added former Deloitte associate director Sreekumar Nair as associate partner to head the new office.

Following the departure of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Delhi tax and GST partner Sandeep Chilana for independent practice, which we had reported in December 2018, SAM has now lined up his long-anticipated replacement: EY executive director of indirect tax Rajat Bose.

Praxis Counsel co-founding partner Hemant Singh has left the five-partner electricity and regulatory firm with the bulk of its fee-earners to start a new regulatory firm called Charter Law Chambers.

IndusLaw has moved into a larger Mumbai office and has worked at immediately filling the space: HSA Advocates litigation partners Amit Jajoo and Sushmita Gandhi will be joining with their team of six fee-earners.

Vivek Daswaney, who had joined IndusLaw as a Mumbai partner in February 2017 from (pre-Link Legal merger) DH Law Associates, has gone independent to return to boutique roots.

Talwar Thakore Associates (TTA) former competition head and executive chairman Vinod Dhall, whose collaboration relationship we had reported on Tuesday to have ended, has resurfaced quickly and joined Platinum Partners with the “senior advisor” tag, Bar & Bench has reported.

The relationship between Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) competition chief Vinod Dhall - which was branded as Vinod Dhall in collaboration with Talwar Thakore & Associates - is over.

AZB & Partners Mumbai-based competition lawyer Rahul Rai, has announced internally that he would step down from partnership and take up counsel position at the firm instead (for now).

Chetan Nagendra, former Bangalore partner of AZB & Partners, has joined Big 4 consultancy E&Y best friend law firm PDS Legal as a partner, to open up its Bangalore office, according to sources with knowledge of the move.

Argus Partners has hired HSA Advocates Mumbai-based senior partner Abeezar E Faizullabhoy and his team of two associate partners Shahen Pradhan and Murtaza Kachwalla, as well as three associates.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Asim Abbas as a partner, after the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) specialist had left the firm late last year.

Bangalore-headquartered venture capital advisory powerhouse Themis Associates has hired former Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) principal associate Vinayak Mishra as a partner-equivalent consultant in Delhi to spearhead its expansion into the city.

Link Legal India Law Services associate partner Darshika Singh has joined Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co’s India subsidiary in-house, in its Delhi legal team in mid-January.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner Rahul Goel, who specialises in technology, media and telecoms, as well as competition law, has resigned together with his team, which includes partner-level director Anu Monga.

Neha Sinha, who was made partner at L&L Partners (formerly Luthra & Luthra) in 2017, has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in a boost to its corporate practice, together with Trilegal counsel Karun Prakash, who is joining as a partner designate.

Link Legal India Law Services banking and finance partner Anurag Dwivedi has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas as a partner in Delhi.

IndusLaw has hired Manishi Pathak as a Delhi partner after he had resigned from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) last month.

HSA Advocates had hired Kochhar & Co partner Jivesh Chandrayan as Delhi partner in May 2018 in corporate.

IndusLaw Bangalore disputes partner Nikhilesh Rao will join Khaitan & Co’s litigation team, as first reported by Bar & Bench.

L&L Partners 2014-litigation partner Anirban Bhattacharya has left to make it as an independent arguing counsel, as first reported by Bar & Bench.