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Trilegal will promote five counsel into its equity partnership, we authoritatively understand, growing its partnership to a total of 63.
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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.
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Khaitan & Co adding VoxLaw managing partner Udayan Choksi as a partner in indirect tax.
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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.
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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.
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The latest partner of L&L Partners, Nirupam Lodha, has quit and will be joining Khaitan & Co.
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L&L Partner Damini Bhalla, who we had reported last week had resigned from the firm, is joining rapidly-growing food delivery unicorn Zomato as its general counsel (GC).
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Former AZB & Partners Delhi capital markets partner Madhurima Mukherjee Saha had joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) in June 2020 as an independent senior consultant.
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Khaitan & Co first-year associate and NLIU Bhopal 2020 graduate Devansh Srivastava has passed away early yesterday morning after a cardiac arrest.
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White-collar crime and dispute resolution firm MZM Legal LLP has hired Mohammad Shine as a partner in its criminal litigation practice.
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Jerome Merchant + Partners has hired Palash Gupta, India desk and international arbitration head of Collyer Law based in Manila, Philippines, and Singapore, to in turn head its international arbitration offering.
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Following his resignation from L&L Partners in January, lateral capital markets partner Jitesh Shahani has joined S&R Associates as a partner in Mumbai.
Law firms Khaitan & Co will set up an office with two senior members next month to practice non-Singapore law and international arbitration.
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Samvad Partners has hired Savani Gupte as a partner in Mumbai’s disputes team from Khaitan & Co, where she had been a principal associate.