IC Legal has hired Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) senior associate Sambhav Ranka as an equity partner in its Andheri office.

Verus has hired former Dua Associates and Tatva Legal manager Siddharth Bhavnani as a partner in Delhi. He will join the firm from 1 October, specialising in M&A, joint ventures and real estate. Bhavnani obtained his undergraduate in law from the University of Leicester in 2006, and then worked...

Mustafa Motiwala, who joined Juris Corp in 2011 with his firm AM Law , has resigned as a partner at the firm, reported Bar & Bench . He was in charge of commercial, dispute resolution, intellectual property and real estate. In a little over a year, Juris Corp has seen the departure of Chennai h...

DLA Piper India group partner and NLSIU Bangalore grad Biswajit Chatterjee has joined US firm Squire Patton Boggs.

Dhir & Dhir partner Purti Marwah will set up her own law firm, reported Bar & Bench . She had been a partner at Dhir since 2005, having been with the firm since 2001 after a year at Singhania & Co. The firm’s managing partner Alok Dhir told Bar & Bench that he wished her well, wh...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai salaried partner Vikrant Patwardhan has joined the world’s largest independent steel trader Stemcor as its general counsel India.

Argus Partners co-founder Ramya Hariharan has resigned from Udwadia Udeshi & Argus Partners, as first reported by Bar & Bench . Hariharan confirmed her departure but declined to comment further when contacted. Argus co-founder Krishnava Dutt did not respond to a phone call seeking comment ...

MNK Law Offices M&A and private equity partner Nivedita Tiwari, who joined one year ago from Luthra & Luthra, has joined Platinum Partners in Delhi, according to an authoritative source.

Amarchand Mangaldas principal associate Ajay Joseph has joined Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan as a corporate partner in Mumbai. After graduating from Symbiosis Pune and a postgraduate at the University of Durham, Joseph worked at FoxMandal Little for around two years, Khaitan & Co for four yea...

Wadia Ghandy partner Amit Manubarwala has joined Economic Law Practice (ELP) as an associate partner in the corporate and commercial group. The qualified Bombay solicitor became a partner at Wadia Ghandy in 2012 , having joined the firm in 2005 from Crawford Bayley & Co, where he began his care...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) tax chair Ashok Dhingra, partner Smita Singh, and partner-equivalent chartered accountant (CA) Sonia Gupta, have set up boutique tax advisory firm Ashok Dhingra Associates (ADA).

Clasis Law co-founding partner Sakate Khaitan and three Clasis senior associates have started Khaitan Legal Associates, a law firm with offices in Mumbai and London.

Kochhar & Co Chennai litigation head and partner J Sivanandaraaj is going independent with his team of 15 lawyers.

Khaitan & Co has completed its acquisition of the practice and teams of three co-founding partners of PXV Law Partners.

Wadia Ghandy partner Gaurav Singhi, who was promoted in April 2014 , has joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) as a partner. Mumbai partner Akshay Chudasama confirmed that Singhi would join the firm as a non-equity retained partner. The news was first reported by Bar & Bench earlier today. Singhi, a ...

Madhurima Mukherjee, who had left Luthra & Luthra a year ago, has joined AZB & Partners in Delhi as a capital markets partner, according to several authoritative sources.

Former Trilegal counsel and regulatory practice head Sakya Singha Chaudhuri has joined HSA Advocates as partner to head the firm’s regulatory practice. Chaudhuri left Trilegal in the last week of July and joined HSA in August.

Ran Chakrabarti, the co-founder of William Chakrabarti & Associates, has joined IndusLaw as a partner in Delhi from 1 August. UK educated, he began his career in London and Singapore at Ashurst and White & Case and moved to India in 2007 to join Amarchand Mangaldas, moving to legal process...

SNG & Partners partner S Babu has joined Economic Laws Practice (ELP) in Mumbai.