Link Legal India Law, DH Law Associates merge to form 155-lawyer firm
Days before the new year begins, the Indian law firm industry is witness to consolidation, with the merger of Link Legal India Law Services and DH Law Associates. The new entity will retain the name...
View ArticleJuris Corp’s Jeet Sen Gupta joins Vertices as Partner
Former Juris Corp Partner Jeet Sen Gupta has joined Vertices Partners. He will head the firm’s Banking & Finance, Structure Finance, Special Situations and Stressed Assets initiatives. Vertices...
View ArticleJSA’s Shahen Pradhan joins HSA Advocates as Associate Partner
J. Sagar Associates’ Principal Associate Shahen N. Pradhan has joined HSA Advocates as Associate Partner in the Mumbai office. Shahen will be part of the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice. Shahen’s...
View ArticleMorrison & Foerster promotes Amit Kataria to partnership
Morrison & Foerster has recently announced 15 partner promotions worldwide including that of Amit Kataria, an Of Counsel in HongKong. Kataria has extensive experience advising on mergers and...
View ArticleShardul Amarchand Lit Partner Ruchi Mahajan resigns
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. Litigation Partner Ruchi Mahajan has left the firm. At this point, it is not clear if she is joining another law firm. Confirming her decision to move, Mahajan...
View ArticleWhat India can learn from the UK Competition Authority’s report on legal...
Twelve months after initiating a study on legal services in England and Wales, the Competition and Markets Authority has come out with an extensive report [pdf] on competition in this sector. The...
View ArticleShardul Amarchand’s Sandeep Grover joins IndusLaw as Partner
Sandeep Grover has joined IndusLaw as a Partner and will be based in the firm’s Delhi office. Sandeep has 12 years of dispute resolution experience in commercial and civil matters and arbitration (both...
View Article[Exclusive]: Ex-Milbank lawyer Sanjeet Malik joins Samvad Partners
Sanjeet Malik has joined Samvad Partners as a Partner in Delhi. Confirming Sanjeet’s joining, Mumbai Partner Vineetha MG said, “We are very happy to have him on board”. A graduate of Cornell Law...
View ArticleHarry Chawla’s Atlas Law hires CAM’s Medha Srivastava as Associate Partner
Atlas Law Partners has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ Medha Srivastava as an Associate Partner, as first reported by VCCircle. A graduate of NUJS Kolkata, Medha started her career with the erstwhile...
View ArticleMergermarket M&A Tables: The Indian legal market recorded its highest ever...
In spite of various disruptions, it has been a good year for Indian law firms. 2016 has been the Indian legal market’s most prolific year ever in terms of M&A deals, according to the Mergermarket...
View ArticleHSA Restructuring: Reliance ADA’s Kunal Rajpal hired as firm’s first...
HSA Advocates, already undergoing a series of structural changes, has now created the post of Principal Associate. As per the firm’s press release, this post is to “elevate performers” and “groom” them...
View ArticleLink Legal hires ex-JSA lawyer Rajdeep Choudhury as Associate Partner
After the merger with DH Law Associates, Link Legal India Law Services has now hired Rajdeep Choudhury in its Project Claims Management vertical team. He has joined Link Legal as an Associate Partner....
View ArticleDealogic 2016: Link Legal tops India Project Finance league table followed by...
Link Legal India Law Services has topped the Dealogic Project Finance deal league table for India in 2016. The firm recorded 67 project finance deals worth $6.3 billion over the course of financial...
View ArticleCyril Amarchand hires AZB’s HR Head Kiran Patheja
Kiran Patheja has recently joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as Head – Talent Acquisition. Kiran was previously working at AZB & Partners as HR Head. Confirming her joining, Managing Partner Cyril...
View ArticleVenture Intelligence 2016: Amarchand firms top PE and M&A league tables, AZB...
Venture Intelligence has released its league tables for Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions deals in 2016. One year after they split, each Amarchand firm has topped a table. Shardul Amarchand...
View Article[Exclusive]: Cyril Amarchand Delhi Partner Srinivas Kilambi resigns
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi Partner Srinivas Kilambi has resigned from the firm, according to sources. Kilambi had joined the firm in 2015, along with two other MNK Partners Gyanendra Kumar and...
View ArticleJuris Corp promotes Nand Gopal Anand and Arunabh Choudhary to partnership
Juris Corp has promoted two of its Principal Associates – Nand Gopal Anand in Delhi and Arunabh Choudhary in Bangalore – to partnership. A graduate of ILS, Pune, Nand Gopal started his career with...
View ArticleLawyers beat bankers in Duane Morris & Selvam charity cricket match
A team of lawyers defeated a team of bankers in the sixth edition of the Capital Markets Cup hosted by Duane Morris & Selvam LLP. With this win, the lawyers have a 4-2 lead in the annual charity...
View ArticleLexOrbis hires DPS Parmar as Head of IPAB practice
LexOrbis has hired former technical member of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), DPS Parmar, as Senior Consultant with the firm’s IPAB practice group. Parmar holds an M.Sc. degree from...
View ArticleK&L Gates hires Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s Philip Perrotta and Sidanth...
The London office of K&L Gates LLP has hired Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP’s Aviation Finance Head Philip Perrotta and Partner Sidanth Rajagopal as Partners in its finance practice....
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