Link Legal India Law Services has promoted Samantha Fernandes D’Souza as associate partner in its banking and finance team.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) has promoted eight of its joint partners to partner level, with effect from 1 April 2019, according to a press release.

Charul Yadav, who had rejoined IP firm Obhan & Associates as associate partner in January of this year after a one-year stint at LexOrbis, has been promoted to partner at the firm, according to a press release.

Mumbai-headquartered national firm Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has promoted four of its associate partners to equity partner level, and one associate director to director level, increasing the total size of its equity partnership to 11.

With effect from 1 July, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 19 of its lawyers to partnership, growing its total partnership size to 132, with its total fee-earner headcount now standing at 737.

Singhania & Partners LLP has promoted associate partner Rudra Srivastava to its partnership.

Delhi firm Gaggar & Partners, formerly known as Gaggar & Associates, has promoted two to salaried partner and hired two into its salaried partnership laterally.

Samvad Partners has promoted corporate senior associate Junaira Rahman to partner in Delhi, according to the firm, growing its total partnership to 14 (with 75 fee-earners)

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.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 7 to its partnership (including one as a partner-equivalent director in competition).

Three-year-old firm Vertices Partners has promoted two senior associates to associate partner and has laterally hired one associate partner, according to the firm’s press release.

DSK co-founding partner Satish Kishanchandani’s start-up is now live as Pioneer Legal in Mumbai, coming out of the gate with a partner promotion, a headcount of 20 fee-earners, 4 partners and plans for national expansion.

D ua Associates has promoted two partners to equity and four to salaried partnership, reported Bar & Bench . New equity partners Jaspreet Sareen - Gurgaon (corporate) Hetal Thakore - Mumbai (disputes) New salaried partners Chitranshul Sinha - Delhi (disputes) Kapil Mahajan - Gurgaon (corporate)...

Anoma Legal, the firm started in May 2018, by an exodus of seven partners from K Law, has promoted five of its principal associates to partner level:Anisha Jayaram – Bangalore (corporate / PE)Aparnaa Bhalotia – Mumbai (corporate / debt)Apeksha Amin – Mumbai (real estate)Arjun Sharma – Bangalore (corporate / pe)Natasha Rao – Bangalore (commercial / corporate)

Parinam Law Associates, which had been set up in November of last year by former ALMT Legal-JurisCorp partner Hitesh Jain and ex-J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Ravichandra Hegde, has promoted two of its co-founding partners to equity partner level, and two to salaried partners.

IndusLaw has promoted four of its lawyers to partnership, as well as four to principal associates and nine to senior associate, according to its press release.

Kachwaha & Partners has promoted senior associate Ankit Khushu as a partner on 1 April 2019.

Wadia Ghandy has promoted six of its senior associates to partnership.

Law firm Khaitan & Co has promoted 11 of its lawyers to partnership, of whom 6 are women, growing to a total size of 152 partners (with 13 female partners), and is now at 578 fee-earners.

Boutique Mumbai law firm M Mulla Associates, which had been started in 2010 by Mulla & Mulla partner Maneck Mulla, has internally promoted one senior associate to associate partner, after having hired former Naik Naik & Company partner Anuja Jhunjhunwala as a partner in January 2019.