Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Bengaluru-based equity partner Arjun Lall, who had been with the firm for 20 years since graduating from NLSIU Bengaluru in 2001, has now officially left the firm.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Desai & Diwanji Mumbai partner Ketaki Gor Mehta as a partner in its new office in the Gandhinagar-based office in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), which it had announced in early May 2021 (alongside IC Universal Legal also opening in the city).

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has re-hired Rutu Gandhi as a partner in its financial regulatory practice (FRP) in Mumbai.

Allen & Overy (A&O) has appointed two Singapore-based partners, Sheila Ahuja and Pallavi Gopinath Aney, as joint chairs of its India group, after the departure of London-based former India head Sanjeev Dhuna.

IndusLaw has in Bengaluru recruited Bharadwaj Jaishankar as a partner in its intellectual property practice.

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) London-based India litigation head Nick Peacock, who had been with the firm for more than 20 years, has joined Bird & Bird and will head up its international arbitration team from London.

Bangalore-based private equity boutique Lexygen, set up in 2006 by Vijay Sambamurthi, has pledged to donate $150,000 worth of free legal advice to start-ups hit by the pandemic and NGOs (especially those in the healthcare and health-tech space) on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Bengaluru-based Tatva Legal co-founding partner Manav Nagaraj will be joining Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) with his team, including partner Bhargava KS, we have reliably learned.

Juris Corp has promoted three to partner, and two each to counsel, principal associate and senior associate respectively.

The general counsel (GC) of Tata Sons, Shuva Mandal, is set to exit for Mumbai-based start-up law firm Anagram Legal, which we understand he has been instrumental in setting up, according to three sources with authoritative knowledge of the news.

Khaitan & Co has announced that it would open an office in Chennai later this year with a relocation from Mumbai and the hiring of dispute resolution independent counsel Arva Merchant as a local partner in the city.

Over the past days, legal whisper networks as well as social media sites have been abuzz about Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas’ (SAM) vaccination camp, which had begun vaccinating all of its Delhi staff at its Okhla offices.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has expanded its equity partnership to 12 by promoting Kumar Visalaksh and Ashish Prasad to equity partners.