Delhi-based law firm Gaggar and Partners has promoted Neha Mishra and Sumedha Dang to the partnership. The firm has also recently added two lateral Partners – Mithun Rebello and Nitish Sharma. With these additions, the firm now has 7 Partners and a team of 20 Associates. Gaggar and Partners also recently moved to a new and bigger office […]
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Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, announces the promotion of 19 partners and 4 partner designates with effect from July 1, 2019. With these inductions, the firm’s partnership strength now stands at 132 nationwide, across its 6 offices. Capital Markets Devaki Mankad – GNLU 2009 S. Vivek – NLSIU 2010 Corporate Aishwarya K – NLSIU 2010 Bharath Reddy […]
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Baker & Mckenzie Partner Pallavi Gopinath Aney has left the firm to join Allen & Overy in Singapore. She will join A&O early next week, according to sources. Update: Allen & Overy has appointed Pallavi Gopinath Aney as a capital markets partner based in its Singapore office. Pallavi brings over 15 years of experience advising […]
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Vatsal Gaur has joined HSA Advocates as an Associate Partner. In the process, he has merged his independent practice with HSA. He will be operating out of the firm’s Delhi office. With over eight years of experience in corporate commercial and M&A transactions, Vatsal Gaur also specializes in PE investment transactions, having acted for diverse […]
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Former Link Legal Partner Shashwat Kumar has joined the partnership of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas at its Delhi office as part of the Firm’s Projects and Project Finance Practice. Shashwat has over 13 years of experience in advising public sector behemoths and top multinationals in the infrastructure sector on a range of regulatory and policy issues including […]
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L&L Partners (formerly Luthra & Luthra) Corporate Partner Amit Shetye has resigned and is joining a leading infrastructure investment fund, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Confirming the development, L&L Senior Partner Mohit Saraf said, “GIP is a long-standing client of the Firm and Amit has been working with them for a while. GIP expressed their desire […]
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Amit Charan has joined HSA Advocates as Partner. He will be based out of the firm’s Delhi office. Prior to joining HSA, he was working at Corporate Law Firm as a Principal Associate Amit’s primary areas of specialization are banking & finance transactions including project finance, structured finance, asset finance, acquisition finance, bond issuance, ECB, […]
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Two Indian lawyers are among fourteen members freshly inducted into the Singapore International Arbitration Centre’s (SIAC) Court of Arbitration. Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Partner Tejas Karia and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Partner Shaneen Parikh are among those who have been made members. Karia has over 19 years of experience and leads the Arbitration practice at Shardul Amarchand. […]
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Over the last few months, five lawyers from Tata Sons Group General Counsel Shuva Mandal’s team, have left to join other companies as in-house counsel. Abhinav Surana, who had joined Tata Sons as Senior Legal Counsel, has moved to Aditya Birla ARC. He joined the company as Head of Legal in April this year. Prior […]
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Former Economic Laws Practice Partner Deep Roy has set up his own boutique law firm, Equilex. The firm specialises in transactions, advisory, regulatory and dispute resolution issues. Its primary work includes debt and financing transactions, fund raising transactions, stressed asset transactions, corporate and debt restructuring, banking and regulatory advisory, as well as insolvency and bankruptcy matters. […]
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Former Khaitan & Co and Poovayya & Co lawyer Praveenkumar Hiremath has set up a full service law firm, PSA Law Partners in Bangalore along with Sanjay Kumar A and Akki Arun Kumar. PSA Law Partners, which will be inaugurated on June 16, will provide services in Corporate and Commercial Laws, Insolvency, Debt Recovery, Investments, […]
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Agastya Legal LLP, a boutique law firm handling economic offences and financial crimes cases, has been launched in Delhi and Chennai. The firm is headed by former IPN Associates Partner Abhishek Kumar Pandey and Delhi-based advocate Dr. MR Venkatesh. Agastya Legal intends to address the specialised requirements of cases like Benami transactions, anti-money laundering issues, anti-corruption laws, […]
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Set up in 2015 by Azmul Haque, Singapore-based law firm Collyer Law has strengthened its India practice with the addition of Aritra Roy and Khyati Raniwala. Aritra Roy has joined Collyer Law as a Senior Associate in the Corporate & India Desk teams effective April 2019. Roy will focus on a range of cross-border corporate matters […]
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Naik Naik & Co has hired Lavin Hirani as an Associate Partner in its Media & Entertainment practice. Hirani is a 2007 graduate of University of Mumbai. He also holds an LL.M. from the University of Manchester. He had previously worked with Naik Naik & Co for two years from 2010-2012, before joining Hariani and […]
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Priyesh Sharma has rejoined ARA Law as Co-Head of the firm's Mergers & Acquisitions practice. Sharma is a 2011 graduate of Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU) Raipur. He began his career at Vaish Associates before moving to AZB & Partners in 2015. His first stint with ARA Law began in 2016. Two years later, he […]
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Zaiwalla & Co. LLP, the specialist sanctions, litigation and arbitration law firm in London, has promoted Kartik Mittal to the partnership. Kartik who has become the youngest Partner at the firm, was previously the Senior Solicitor, having begun his career at Zaiwalla & Co LLP in February 2009. Kartik is a dual-qualified lawyer (in England & […]
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Obhan & Associates has promoted Charul Yadav to Partnership. Yadav has over 14 years of experience in the field of IP, with special expertise in the life science domain. She has also been active in patent litigation before various courts and forums in India. Yadav is a 2013 graduate of Faculty of Law at Delhi University. […]
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Maneesha Kongovi is joining Argus Partners in Bangalore along with her team Shivabhushan S. Hatti, Anusha Chatra and Yamini Harish w.e.f. July 1, 2019. Maneesha is joining the firm as a Partner. On Maneesha and her team joining, Argus Partners Managing Partner Krishnava Dutt commented, "Her joining will immensely benefit the Bangalore office where we represent several of […]
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AZB & Partners Corporate Partner Harsh Maggon has left the firm to join Trilegal in its Mumbai office, according to reliable sources. Harsh Maggon is a 2007 graduate of Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Harsh had joined AZB from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in 2016. He spent nearly four years at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas before joining AZB. He […]
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An employee of Khaitan & Co has handed in her resignation citing the “unprofessionalism” with which the firm’s Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) committee handled her complaint. In a 12-page letter written to Partner Haigreve Khaitan in May 2019, the former Associate has detailed the events pertaining to the alleged sexual harassment by a fellow […]
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