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Law firms Jerome Merchant + Partners has hired two lateral dispute resolution lawyers, partner Rhia Marshall and Yashvardhan, a month after hiring Palash Gupta from Singapore as its head of international arbitration.
Law firms
DSK Legal has promoted four associate partners to partner and five fee-earners to associate partner level.
Law firms
AZB & Partners has promoted two to partner across Delhi and Mumbai: Pranav Atit, general corporate, Mumbai, andAbhimanyu Chopra, dispute resolution, Delhi.
Law schools
NUJS Kolkata’s student body has voted to institute a new system of governance to de-politicise the campus but increase friendly intra-college competition.
Law firms
Khaitan & Co has promoted a total of 22 principal associates and counsel to salaried partner positions.
In-house counsel
Arcelor Mittal Mumbai-based vice president legal and effective regional general counsel Sapan Gupta, who had joined in January 2020 from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, has been promoted to group general counsel based in London, moneycontrol and others reported yesterday.
Law firms
Trilegal will promote five counsel into its equity partnership, we authoritatively understand, growing its partnership to a total of 63.
Law firms
As many firms had frozen salaries (or recently unfrozen them), Trilegal has paid out an unconditional one month’s extra salary to all fee-earners and staff, on top of expected usual performance-related bonus payments and scheduled PQE increments, two sources with knowledge of the move have confirmed.
Law firms
Khaitan & Co adding VoxLaw managing partner Udayan Choksi as a partner in indirect tax.
Law firms
Clifford Chance Singapore capital markets and India group partner Rahul Guptan is set to join White & Case, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.
Law firms
2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate Debolina Saha had started Internship Bank in December 2019 as a non-profit initiative to provide internships in the Indian legal profession to women, which we had covered in April 2020.