Law firms

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) tax partner Anay Banhatti has left and will be starting independent counsel practice, cementing the trend of tax lawyers choosing to join the bar in the lucrative and in-demand practice area.

L&L Partners (formerly known as Luthra & Luthra) has hired ex-judicial magistrate from Jharkhand, Kanchan Jasmin Toppo, as a senior associate, Bar & Bench has reported exclusively.

DSK Legal co-founding partner Satish Kishanchandani is leaving the firm with two corporate partners and their teams in the coming months.

IRA Law, the intellectual property and litigation boutique started up by four Anand & Anand alums, has added two more former Anand & Anand partners: senior partner of nearly three decades, Debjit Gupta, and partner Geetanjali Visvanathan have joined on 1 March.

Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) counsel P Ram Kumar has been promoted to the firm’s partnership in its competition team in Delhi, making him the firm’s first Delhi partner.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) Mumbai-based banking and finance partner Deep Roy has left the firm last week.

PSL Advocates & Solicitors has set up a small office in China’s fifth-larges city, Hangzhou, and is in the process of hiring a local lawyer there to capitalise on increasing outbound work to India.

NLSIU Bangalore’s global legal diaspora has scored another partnership at an elite international law firm, with 2002 graduate Manas Chandrashekar getting the nod in Latham & Watkins’ Hong Kong office.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi competition and technology, media and telecoms partner Rahul Goel, whom we had reported in January to have resigned with his team, will be joining IndusLaw.

Phoenix Legal Chennai head and partner Shadaan Mohammed Saipillai and tax litigator Arun Kurian Joseph have together set up local law firm Calibre Legal; Phoenix will shut shop in the city.