The Adani Group’s senior vice president legal, Badrinath Durvasula, who was heading the legal function’s M&A, contracting, litigation and arbitration vertical, has joined Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) as vice president and general counsel (GC).

Former Snapdeal general counsel (GC) Ashish Chandra has joined streaming service Netflix India as legal director after a brief stint with Malaysian media and entertainment company Astro Malaysia Holdings as vice president and head counsel, as first reported by Bar & Bench.

Rajesh Chavda, who had been working at IDFC Alternatives as a director in India until January of this year, has joined Essar Oil (UK) Limited as a senior legal adviser.

IDFC Alternatives director legal and compliance Rajesh Chavda is set to leave the investment fund by 28 February.

Former Snapdeal general counsel Ashish Chandra joined Malaysian media and entertainment company Astro Malaysia Holdings as vice president and head counsel, effective today.

Former Snapdeal general counsel Ashish Chandra joined “social connection” app oFish as an investor, less than a month after Snapdeal and Flipkart signed a non-binding letter of intent for a proposed merger.

Janhavi Gadkar, the Reliance Industries in-house lawyer who had allegedly killed two passengers of another car while ramming into it while drunk in 2015, has been permitted to visit Europe for tourism, relaxing her bail condition, reported Sadaf Modak in The Indian Express.

Supreme Court advocate Vijay Anand’s son V Vikas allegedly killed an autorickshaw driver and injured 10 others in Chennai when his Porsche car rammed into 12 parked autorickshaws while drunk driving, reported several media.

Lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, who in 2015 while working at Reliance Industries as an in-house lawyer killed two while allegedly driving drunk in Mumbai, will likely appear in court on 20 September when charges against her will be framed, reported the Times of India:

K Law partner Ajay Sawhney, who had joined only a year ago from Link Legal, is leaving the firm

A session court has ordered the police to return the driving licence and car of Janhavi Gadkar, the Reliance Industries in-house lawyer and former Talwar Thakore Associates associate who allegedly killed two passengers in a taxi when driving drunk in June 2015.

Mumbai sessions court judge Sanjay V Patil granted bail to Janhavi Gadkar today with Rs 30,000 surety, after the Reliance Industries in-house and former Talwar Thakore Associates corporate lawyer allegedly killed two when driving drunk nearly two months ago, reported Mid-day and others. Gadkar’s law...

The bail of Reliance Industries in-house counsel Janhavi Gadkar, who allegedly killed two while driving drunk, has been rejected by the Kurla metropolitan magistrate in Mumbai today, reported NDTV and others. Her lawyer Mahesh Sabnis told the court that she would cooperate with the police and that b...

Reliance Industries lawyer Janhavi Gadkar who, through senior advocate Amit Desai, had filed for bail in her drunken driving accident case will remain jailed at least until 24 July because the investigation was not yet complete, reported Times of India and the Hindustan Times but almost no other new...

Janhavi Gadkar, the Reliance Industries lawyer who allegedly killed two while driving drunk, has had her bail refused by magistrate Richa Khedkar, after senior counsel Amit Desai, representing Gadkar, argued yesterday that “significant progress” had been made in the case and keeping her in jail on b...

The bail hearing of Reliance Industries in-house counsel Janhavi Gadkar, who is accused of driven while drunk and killing two men, was adjourned in the Kurla metropolitan magistrate’s court yesterday to 25 June amidst arguments between counsel. Advocate Dimple Shah, representing Gadkar, had argued t...

The bail plea of Reliance Industries in-house lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, who allegedly killed two while driving drunk last week Tuesday, has been postponed to Wednesday by a metropolitan magistrate yesterday (Monday), after her lawyer Mahesh Sabnis said she needed urgent medical care to tend to her frac...

NDTV reported that vice president (legal) of Reliance Industries and former Talwar Thakore Associates managing associate Janhavi Gadkar had allegedly killed two persons in a taxi while driving her Audi Q3 drunk in Mumbai last night on the wrong side of a major freeway. The 35 year old lawyer has bee...

Linklaters has promoted Linklaters London managing associates Sushil Jacob to counsel today. Jacob specialises in banking, finance and corporate, having recently advised, according to a Linklaters press release: Barclays Bank on the sale of the entirety of its banking business in Pakistan to Habib B...

Herbert Smith Freehills London senior associate Rajesh Chavda, will join Luthra & Luthra as a partner in its Delhi infrastructure and natural resources practice in April 2015.