Law firms

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumbai star corporate partner Ashwath Rau and AZB & Partners Delhi senior partner Percy Billimoria have both served out their notice period in record time, with today being the last day at their respective firms until they swap firms later this week.

Around 25 fee-earners in the team of Ashwath Rau, who is set to join AZB & Partners Mumbai office with at least three partners, have been told that today will be their last day in the office, according to reliable sources.

Khaitan & Co advised Mumbai-based RPG Life Sciences on the Rs 25 crore ($3.7m) sale of its biotech unit to Intas Pharmaceuticals which was advised by J Sagar Associates (JSA).

Clasis Law added independent litigator Jaideep Singh as an associate partner in its Delhi office in April. Singh specialises in disputes.

Orbit Law Services added former National Bank of Argriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in-house lawyer T Ravinchandran as a partner to head the firm’s Chennai office and its corporate and commercial litigation practice. The firm also added three associate partners.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Bangalore capital markets partner Arjun Lall has become head of the Southern India region, including Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has confirmed the hire of AZB & Partners senior partner Percy Billimoria as head of Delhi and chair of disputes, regulatory, advocacy and policy practice, as first reported by Legally India last week.

NUJS Kolkata, GLC Mumbai and Symbiosis Pune trumped NLSIU Bangalore which was formerly Indian law firms’ favourite law school from which to internally promote partners.

Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (ILFS) group general counsel Pradeep Ratnam will be joining K Law as senior partner in Delhi.

Ajay Sawhney, outgoing project finance partner at K Law, having joined from Link Legal a year earlier, will join Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in Delhi by 1 June.

K Law partner Ajay Sawhney, who had joined only a year ago from Link Legal, is leaving the firm

S&R Associates partner Bhakta Patnaik has resigned from the firm on Friday, and is in advanced discussions to join Trilegal, as well as in talks with other firms

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner and national competition head Nisha Kaur Uberoi handed in her resignation yesterday and is set to join AZB & Partners in the coming months.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas will hire senior AZB & Partners Delhi partner Percival Billimoria to head up its Delhi office and national litigation practice, according to three authoritative sources.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner and competition head Nisha Kaur Uberoi is close to joining AZB & Partners in Mumbai.