Law firms

Selection process at firm still continuing.

Big project M&A in the project space with Desai & Diwanji and Amarchand, while a project finance take-out scheme keeps Dhir busy.

JSA partner to power ultra-mega-power project as CEO.

ALMT Express Towers partnership at 10; globally 20.

No new partners in Vaish's annual promotions this year-end, but five new principal associates and eight new senior associates.

Bumper crop of salaried partner promotions at JSA.

Khaitan & Co has begun the month-long process of evaluating which existing associate partners will be inducted into the firm’s equity partnership across offices, after promoting a total of five principal associates in Mumbai and Delhi to associate partner level effective today (1 April).

Seth Dua & Associates bags three new partners in competition, TMT & tax.

Principal associates Adheesh Nargolkar and Niren Patel, specialising in intellectual property (IP) and in corporate and M&A respectively, were given the nod to the pre-equity associate partner rung, legal website Bar & Bench reported today.

Nargolkar began working at WS Kane & Co as an engineer, patent agent and attorney in 2001, joined AZB & Partners in 2006 and moved to Khaitan in December 2010, according to his Linked-in profile. He is a BE graduate of the

Patel, a qualified Bombay Incorporated Law Society solicitor, began his career in 2001 as an articled clerk at Crawford Bayley, graduating from GLC Mumbai in 2003. In 2005 he joined Deval Patel Associates, followed by a move to AZB in 2008, which he left in September 2011 to join Khaitan.

NDR + AZB alum MG = new national firm Samvad Partners.

Vaish Associates and Crawford Bayley advised Delhi-based liquor firm Globus Spirits in raising Rs 70 crore ($13m) from Templeton Strategic Emerging Markets Fund IV LDC (TSEM) which was advised by BMR Legal's new hire from Desai & Diwanji.

Kumar to join team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff in Mumbai on 5 April.

6 deals spanning private equity and high finance with Amarchand, AZB, Lexygen, Luthra, KSP, SNG…

Agarwal sets up India-UK law firm-consultancy hybrid.

Dua Associates v Saikrishna in trademarks; PXV, Desai & Diwanji in PE.

Senior counsel Anil Divan wants practical position paper on liberalisation from government.