Khaitan & Co kills associate partner moniker to ‘add value’, promotes 7 to (non-equity) partner
Khaitan & Co has promoted seven of its principal associates to non-equity partner level, though formally the firm has abolished the associate partner designation to help its young partners in brand-building and to externally present a more unified partnership.
Symbi Hyd suspends students who posted about campus sex harassment, claims were ‘maligning institution’
Symbiosis Law School (SLS) Hyderabad has attracted the threat of a nationwide agitation after it suspended two female students who had complained of sexual harassment on the law school’s campus, reported Firstpost and others.
NLIU 2018 batch secures 80 out of 84 jobs, LLMs, exams • CAM, Khaitan, Trilegal biggest • 8 go for MP judiciary
NLIU Bhopal’s 2018 batch has seen 72 out of 84 graduating students secure jobs with law firms, corporates and legal process outsourcers (LPOs), and pursue further studies and other career opportunities.
Nascent NLU Jabalpur VC moves to ‘haunted’ suicide room to provide emotional support to students
NLU Jabalpur vice chancellor (VC) Prof Balraj Chauhan has been occupying the hostel room of a student of the law school who committed suicide on 9 September possibly under stress about his weak command over English, as first reported Times of India.
NLU Delhi says standard due process, appeal remains open to student’s suicide attempt over sex harass inquiry
NLU Delhi has released a carefully worded notice on Friday (26 October) that a student, who had allegedly tried to commit suicide on Wednesday after complaining that sexual harassment inquiry by the law school’s Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) against him was procedurally defective, had “recovered considerably” and that the standard appeals process against the ICC remained open to him.
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JSA, Khaitan, SAM act on Mercer’s buy of Gurgaon assessment tech provider Mettl -
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Rajaram, S&R assist in $25m investment in meat start-up Licious -
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Freshfields acts for Bharti Airtel on pre-IPO African $1.25bn fundraising from PE bigshots -
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SAM PA Darshika Singh (NLIU ‘07) moves up a rung to Link Legal associate partner -
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Khaitan, CAM help Zydus’ buy Heinz India for $626m -
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Legasis, Sahai help Snackible foods raise early round from SAM’s Akshay Chudasama, others via Mumbai Angels, 1Crowd-funding -
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Khaitan, Platinum act in Advent $326.2m buy of India’s largest PET plastics maker Manjushree Technopack -
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AZB, Khaitan double-team Reliance as Link Legal + SAM assist Den Networks on yet another $311m Jio payday [UPDATE-2] -
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Jio goes shopping for $399m: CAM helps Reliance Industries, Trilegal for Hathway -
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JSA, Platinum act on France’s Teleperformance $1bn buy of India’s Intelenet from Blackstone
In-house counsel and GCs
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Khaitan associate partner Abhimanyu Ghosh (NUJS ‘07) joins NDB as senior in-houser
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Adani SVP legal Badrinath Durvasula joins Hindustan Construction as GC in Mumbai
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TTA managing associate, NUJS ‘10 Raghuveer Parthasarathy joins JP Morgan as VP legal
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Bharti Axa GC Sachin Kalra joins HT Media as 2nd deputy GC
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Trilegal counsel Shaswata Dutta (NUJS ‘10) joins Goldman Sachs as ED legal, special situations
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Rajani partner Amit Kolekar joins Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing to head up real estate legal
- Hammurabi & Solomon partner Pathik Arora heads to wind power co Senvion as India GC
Latest Legal Jobs
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In strange decision, RTI officer says RGNUL need not supply annual reports electronically because too difficult
As RGNUL Patiala remains one of several national law universities (NLU) that still do not publish their annual financial statements online, one right to information (RTI) applicant approached the Central Information Commission (CIC) against the law school.
SAM PA Darshika Singh (NLIU ‘07) moves up a rung to Link Legal associate partner
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Delhi-based principal associate Darshika Singh has joined Link Legal India Law Services as an associate partner.
Khaitan lit partner Sachin Mandlik goes indie, firm vows to ramp up litigation
Khaitan & Co disputes partner Sachin Mandlik is going independent, as had first been reported by Bar & Bench. Meanwhile, we understand that Khaitan is in advanced stages of finalising several senior hires in the space, and it vowed to expand its disputes presence both in Bangalore and Mumbai.
NTA okay with conducting CLAT if court needs it to but BCI unwilling to give up chase for CLAT prize
The National Testing Agency (NTA) is open to take on the mandate for conducting the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) from 2019 onward, while the Bar Council of India (BCI) has re-asserted that it is the only body suitable to conduct the CLAT going forward.
Youngest JSA equity partner Ravichandra Hegde follows footsteps, 4th to leave for independent counsel lure
J Sagar Associates (JSA) Mumbai-based disputes equity partner Ravichandra Hegde will be the fourth JSA partner to leave the firm for independent practice, according to a JSA press release yesterday.
A&O HK India cap markets partner Amit Singh defects to Linklaters Singapore
Allen & Overy’s Hong Kong-based India group lawyer Amit Singh, who had been promoted to A&O’s partnership in 2014, has joined Linklaters in Singapore as a partner, according to a Linklaters press release yesterday.
ELP tax partner Ranjeet Mahtani moves to tax juggernaut Dhruva Advisors
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) Mumbai-based tax partner Ranjeet Mahtani is joining Dhruva Advisors as a partner.
AZB hires Arundhati Bhattacharya, ex-SBI-chair, ex-top-25-world’s-most-powerful woman, as part-time senior consultant
AZB & Partners Mumbai will hire former State Bank of India (SBI) chairwoman Arundhati Bhattacharya as a senior consultant, we reliably understand.
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