Chandhiok & Associates becomes Chandhiok & Mahajan, gets first 3 non-founding partners
Chandhiok & Associates has rebranded to Chandhiok & Mahajan and has also promoted associates to partners, after first starting four years ago as a sole proprietorship.
SAM, AZB, HSA on $325m Tata Power defence biz sale to Tata Advance Sys
“Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, today announced that its board has approved the sale of its defence business to Tata Advance Systems Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons at an enterprise value of Rs2,230 crore,” Mint reported in May.
SAM’s Akila Agrawal joins CAM as M&A head after 3.5-months’ notice
After a three-and-a-half month wait, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Delhi-based corporate equity partner Akila Agrawal has now joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) as the head of its M&A practice, according to its press release.
HNLU Raipur gets school geet sung by Shaan
HNLU Raipur may soon adopt a school-song, if its executive council approves of a version submitted for its consideration by the vice chancellor, who paid a professional studio to record it being sung by celebrity professional singers Shaan and Saadhna Sharma.
JSA, KCo, Tri, CAM, AZB are best law firms to work for, according to consultant survey
Law firms J Sagar Associates (JSA), Khaitan & Co, Trilegal, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) and AZB & Partners (roughly in that order) were consistently ranked as the top 5 of big law firms in terms of “culture”, “leadership” and “rewards & recognition”, “satisfaction” and “pride”, according to a survey by legal recruitment and management consultant Vahura.
Luthra rebrands to L&L Partners Law Offices, ‘stylised pentagram’ logo • Scoop: Promotes NUJS Abhiroop Lahiri to partner + 5 in lit, tax [UPDATE-2]
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, as its full official name has been, is now called L&L Partners Law Offices, we have learned from sources and Bar & Bench has reported.
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Samvad, IndusLaw on MoveInSync’s $8m Series B raise from Nexus Venture Partners, others -
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Khaitan advises Nashik-based water management firm Kimplas Piping Systems on acquisition by Germany’s Norma Group -
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SAM leads $100m Bookmyshow Series D, also draws in Veritas, NDA, Indus -
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JSA, Platinum, JD, Cleary, Greenberg act on 5th largest outbound M&A of Arysta LifeScience by UPL for $4.2bn
In-house counsel and GCs
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5th, 6th Link Legal partners go this Q: Durgesh Singh joins DMI, Ashutosh Narang exits for Cap In Fin
- Citi Hong Kong’s Padmaja Chakravarty to succeed Pramod Rao as Mumbai GC
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Advaita principal Satyajit Gupta joins Star as VP Legal, post Ghosh departure
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BALCO legal head Pankaj Kapoor joins Sembcorp as VP legal in its new phase as combined Indian power co
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Gaurav Mediratta leaves global FMCG giant Unilever to join homegrown Marico as GC • Marico GC Suresh Jagirdar bags Wadia group GC role
- Lafarge legal head Ajai Jain succeeds Nilanjan Sinha in newGodrej & Boyce GC role
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Citi India GC Pramod Rao to return to old home but as ICICI Group GC
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S&R appoints Simran Dhir as comp head, promotes litigators Abhishek Tewari, Shahezad Kazi to counsel
S&R Associates has appointed two lawyers as counsel and Simran Dhir as the head of its competition practice, according to a press release by the firm.
NUJS, GNLU can’t offer any online diplomas after UGC near-blanket ban
NUJS Kolkata and other national law schools are now debarred from offering any online course going forward under the new rules notified by the University Grants Commission (UGC), just as NUJS had started down the path of controversy surrounding its online certificate, diploma and degree courses.
AZB Mumbai corp partner Bhavi Sanghvi leaves fee-earning behind to become KM partner
Many Indian firms have been looking to do more of knowledge management (KM) for many years, with an eye on their foreign counterparts, but the immediate pressures of earning revenues and servicing clients often get in the way. At AZB & Partners, Bhavi Sanghvi, has now transitioned from corporate, M&A and private equity partner to full-time knowledge management, heading up its KM function for the past month-and-a-half.
NLUs not eligible for QS World University Rankings, but JGU, Symbi, Amity make (some) cut
The national law universities (NLU) are, as expected, missing again from the annual and quite prestigious QS World University Rankings released on 6 June, which have 29 Indian universities featuring in its overall rankings and 79 Indian universities on its list of top universities only from BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries.
5th, 6th Link Legal partners go this Q: Durgesh Singh joins DMI, Ashutosh Narang exits for Cap In Fin
Delhi Link Legal India Law Services partner Durgesh Singh has joined DMI Finance as its group chief legal officer.
Cal firm Aquilaw forays into Mumbai 3 years after Kolkata and Delhi
Aquilaw has opened two offices in Mumbai today after absorbing JKB Legal and adding its managing attorney Jay Bhatia as partner in the firm.
Noojie, ex-AMSS Abhishek Kolay joins Kirkland NY as partner from Davis Polk
Ex-Amarchand Mangaldas lawyer and NUJS Kolkata 2006 graduate Abhishek Kolay has joined Kirkland & Ellis in New York as a partner, making him one of the first (if not the first) alumnus from NUJS to make it to partnership at a top international law firm.
4th time lucky: NLIU Bhopal about to form its very first student body association (SBA), submits constitution for sign-off
NLIU Bhopal is in the final stages of forming a Student Body Association (SBA), for the first time in the law school’s 21 years of existence. The students are set to submit the SBA’s draft constitution to its administration by tomorrow, following an eight-month-long consultation process.
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