IndusLaw may have been growing leaps and bounds, including by recently breaking into the cozy top-tier capital markets club and having been one of the more aggressive lateral hirers in recent times, but the firm’s starting salary had somewhat lagged behind compared to the highest-paying firms.

Ajoy Halder, who had started up infrastructure law firm Halder & Associates in 2017 in Delhi, has passed away after contracting Covid-19.

L&L Partners star Delhi-based corporate partner, Sundeep Dudeja, passed away earlier today after a prolonged battle with Covid-19.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 23 of its fee-earners to partner, reported Bar & Bench.

Against the backdrop of Brexit and vaccine diplomacy the United Kingdom and India yesterday agreed to a deal to increase investments by $1.39bn and to work on a longer-term bilateral free trade deal between the countries (dubbed an “Enhanced Trade Partnership”), as widely reported.

IndusLaw has added yet another lateral hire partner with employment law principal associate Vaibhav Bhardwaj joining the firm in Delhi.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has hired AZB & Partners counsel Vinay Butani as a partner in its corporate commercial practice, while promoting 17 others into senior non-equity-partner-equivalent roles.

IC Universal Legal last week opened an office in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), with Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, hot-on-its-heels, announcing today that it had also done so.

Khaitan & Co has internally rolled out a set of guidelines to improve staff and fee-earners’ well-being as the pandemic has caused turnovers and workloads to grow, while traditional physical office support networks and the ability to switch off have largely disappeared for many.

The Bangalore head of Nishith Desai Associates' office, Parag Srivastava, has joined has joined Rajaram Legal in the city as its third partner there.

IndusLaw’s capital markets team, which had been poached nearly lock-stock-and-barrel from L&L Partners in 2019, has won its highest-profile mandate to date in its role for the banks on the upcoming and eagerly-awaited Zomato initial public offering (IPO).