Law firms

Project finance boutique SJ Law opened up in Delhi in April, five years after former India Law Services partner Samir Jagad founded the firm in Mumbai.

I&S Associates co-founder Anuradha Iyer joined Tatva Legal as a partner in Mumbai, in the firm’s corporate practice, while the firm promoted three managers to partnership, reported legal website Bar & Bench.

Iyer had set up I&S with Bakhtiar Sunavala in 2006 after her nine year stint at AZB & Partners. She graduated from GLC Mumbai and qualified as a Bombay solicitor.

Managers Ritika Pal and Seher Ali in Delhi and Raghunath Ananthapur in Bangalore were made up.

DSK Legal has opened up in Pune, taking its national presence to four offices. The Pune office will be headed by Mumbai corporate partner Narendra Dingankar and will cater to corporate and real estate clients.

Khaitan & Co Mumbai associate partner Nishant K Singh joined Indus Law in Mumbai as partner in its corporate practice.

Amarchand Mangaldas advised realty giant DLF on India’s first commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) issue to raise Rs 3,500 crore this fiscal.

S&R Associates has promoted its Delhi corporate lawyer Mohit Gogia to partnership effective yesterday.

Krishnamurthy & Co (K Law) has promoted Gaurav Shrawat in Mumbai to associate partner in its corporate practice.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has opened up in Chennai, adding a sixth office to its national presence as was announced in August. The firm will start with focussing on its tax and litigation practice in Chennai.

AZB & Partners Delhi partner Debashish Sankhari has resigned to look for a role which is “a mix of entrepreneurship and legal practice”, reported legal website Bar & Bench.

Sankhari graduated from NLSIU Bangalore and joined the advocacy group of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative for three years. He then worked with Vaish Associates as an associate, with Fox Mandal as a senior associate and joined AZB as a senior associate in 2007. He was made partner in 2012.

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) advised India’s largest e-commerce player Flipkart on buying out online fashion retailer Myntra which was advised by Indus Law. One of the existing investors IDG Ventures India I LLC which was advised by Samvad Partners

Desai & Diwanji advised Fidelity Capital in the sale of its equity in Laurus Labs, which was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas, to Warburg Pincus which was advised by AZB & partners.

Indus Law advised old client and online marketplace Snapdeal’s parent Jasper Infotech in its $100m (Rs 590 crore) second round of funding from US-based BlackRock Financial Management, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, Hong Kong-based Myriad Asset Management and Tybourne Capital Management, and Azim Premji’s Premji invest