A law firm started seven months ago by a Kerala advocate and two ex-senior associates from Amarchand Mangaldas and Trilegal, have acted opposite J Sagar Associates (JSA) and DLA Piper to advise on the takeover of a Kerala-based vocational training company by a German services giant.

Former BMR Legal co-founding partner Sujit Ghosh has set up tax litigation firm Advaita Legal with ex-KPMG partner Sunil Moti Lala. Ghosh is based in Delhi, Lala is based in Mumbai and the firm has 30 lawyers across its offices in the two cities, reported legal website Bar & Bench . According t...

Suhaan Mukerji, who left Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi in June to advise the prime minister’s office, has started up a law firm with part of his former Amarchand team and three other lawyers as partners, which will offer legal and public policy and legitimate lobbying services to clients and NGOs. The f...

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) Mumbai dispute resolution partner Madhur Baya left the firm last week to start up his own arbitration practice LexArbitri.

KSB Partners, which was co-founded in 2006 by Samir Bedi, Srinivas Kilambi and Siddharth Singh, is set to dissolve and re-start.

AZB & Partners Bangalore partner Shreya Jayasimha has resigned to start up law firm Aarna Law, reported Bar & Bench without official comment from him or the firm. Jayasimha graduated from NLSIU Bangalore in 2000, worked in the chambers of then advocate and now Delhi high court justice S Mu...

Finsec Law Advisors has hired Anil Choudhary from Trilegal as a senior associate to shore up its securities transactional practice. Choudhary graduated from Harvard Law School’s LLM programme in 2010, joined Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) in January 2011 and was at Trilegal between July 2012 and May...

Remfry & Sagar IP lit and corporate commercial head starts firm.

The laterals, who used to work at Thakker & Thakker and ARA Law, join with one associate.

London law firm Candey Parker Solicitors and Advocates looks to go global with new London office and ambition.

NDR + AZB alum MG = new national firm Samvad Partners.

Agarwal sets up India-UK law firm-consultancy hybrid.

Knowledge Information Acess Associates (KIAA): Recipe of start-up survival, or too young to succeed?

Pamasis Law, the former Luthra & Luthra and Fox Mandal associates’ litigation firm started up in August of last year, has grown to three partners and two associates in a first formal office space.

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Exclusive: Former Tatva Legal Bangalore co-founding partner Manoj Menon has joined Dua Associates as an equity partner in Bangalore to head the firm’s private equity and M&A practice, three years after he left as a salaried partner at the firm to Tatva.

Alliance Legal co-founder and AZB & Partners alumnus Vishnu Jerome has rebranded his practice to P&C Legal after merging his practice into Bangalore headquartered firm Poovayya & Co.

Alliance Legal co-founding partner and J Sagar Associates (JSA) alumni Priyanka Roy has joined IndusLaw as its second Mumbai equity partner to bolster former ICICI general counsel (GC) Pramod Rao who set up the office in April 2012.

Vineetha MG, who left AZB & Partners late last year to start up her own Mumbai firm, which now numbers seven lawyers, has completed her first financing deal.

Amarchand Mangaldas senior associate Rishi Anand has founded Delhi start-up Gnarus Partners with three associates and one litigation head, aiming to double in size by next year and by attracting second-tier work.

Exclusive: Alliance Legal, which was set up in Mumbai 15 months ago by partners and a senior lawyer from AZB & Partners, J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Talwar Thakore Associates (TTA), is breaking up, and co-founder Vishnu Jerome is in advanced talks to start a Mumbai office for Bangalore firm Poovayya & Co.