Wadia Ghandy partner Kunal Vajani, who has been heading its Delhi office, has started up an independent chambers to focus purely on disputes, with an eye to build a UK-style barristers chambers practice.

Khaitan & Co Bangalore partner Nalina Mayegowda, who had left in late March, and Tatva Legal partners Raghunath Ananthapur, R Vasudev, and Raghavi BS have together set up new Bangalore-based firm Magnah Law Partners, reported Bar & Bench.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) long-time partner Akila Agrawal has resigned from the firm, according to authoritative sources.

K Law will be losing five of its partners in Mumbai, and one partner each in Delhi and Bangalore.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi private equity and M&A partner Nivedita Tiwari has resigned today.

Khaitan & Co has now confirmed that competition partner Avaantika Kakkar will be leaving the firm. She will be going to Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as its national competition head, as we had first reported (by a few minutes) on Saturday.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai competition co-head and equity partner Avaantika Kakkar is set to join Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM), according to several authoritative sources.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai corporate associate partner Pooja Patel, and tax practice executive director Daksha Baxi have tendered their resignations.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Bangalore founding partner Karthik Mahalingam is to leave the firm on 30 April.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Bangalore equity partner Murali Ananthasivan has gone independent to become an independent counsel again.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) equity partner Mansoor Ali Shoket and ex-JSA salaried partner-turned-in-houser Nitin Kala have started Delhi-based regulatory boutique RegLaw Chambers.

ALMT Legal senior partner Hitesh Jain, whom we had first reported as moving out of ALMT on 24 March, will be joining Juris Corp as a partner, we understand from reliable sources.

Damodara Rao, who had left Clasis Law with Orbit senior partner Ishtiaq Ali to start up Orbit with third co-founding partner PV Rao, was elevated to the senior partner designation alongside partners Ashok Kamble and T Ravichandran.

HSA Advocates has re-hired disputes lawyer Kanika Chugh as associate partner in Delhi, after Chugh had left in 2017 to work with her husband in his law firm SKV Law Offices.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) senior associate Puja Priyadarshini, is set to join HSA Advocates in mid-April as associate partner.

Khaitan & Co Bangalore-based litigation partner Nalina Mayegowda, who had only joined a year ago from Poovayya & Co, has left to become a counsel reported Bar & Bench.

She was the fourth disputes partner in Khaitan’s Bangalore office.

Sumeet Lall, who is the longest-surviving lateral partner hire at Clasis Law which under managing partner Vineet Aneja has lost its partnership several times over in the last years, has resigned, according to authoritative sources.

Long-time ALMT Legal senior partner Hitesh Jain is set to leave the firm after 31 March of this year, taking his team of 28 fee-earners, including two salaried partners, with him.

The nearly 7-year-old best friendship between Clyde & Co and Clasis Law is on the rocks, and due to not continue after 31 March of this year, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the development.

Bharat Vasani, the former general counsel of Tata Sons, has joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, according to a press release from the firm.