Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Scoop: The firm continues on its recent expansion with its third lateral partner addition in only two months 
KMPG partner and former KPMG Management Consultancy chief operating officer (COO) Jaideep Ghosh has taken over at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) in the COO position from Delhi.
Alina Arora, who had resigned from L&L Partners in late November 2019, has now joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Bar & Bench has first reported.
Link Legal India Law Services has hired former Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas lawyer Vijay Sureka as a partner in its Mumbai-based corporate practice.
SAM bagged the mandate for Facebook and AZB for Reliance on India’s largest ever foreign-direct investment in a tech company, which values Reliance’s Jio Platform subsidiary at Rs 4.62 lakh crore (or nearly $66bn), with Mark Zuckerberg’s US technology giant buying itself a 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms Limited.
J Sagar Associates (JSA) Bangalore salaried partner Arjun Perikal has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in the city earlier this month.