Algo Legal Delhi-based partner Jitender Tanikella has joined AZB & Partners in Mumbai as a counsel today, according to his Linked-in profile.

Correction 12:26: Tanikella is joining AZB Mumbai, not Delhi. Thanks to a commenter for pointing out the error, which is regretted.

The 2006 NLIU Bhopal grad had worked at Nishith Desai Associates and Luthra & Luthra, before co-founding TRA Law (now called Ikigai after his split with co-founder Anirudh Rastogi) after a Columbia Law School LLM in 2012.

The corporate, M&A and venture capital (VC) lawyer had joined Algo in 2019 when it had been started.

We have reached out to Tanikella and Algo for comment.

He is at least the fifth partner to have left Algo this year though the firm has also hired three, including the latest in Mumbai (still currently paywalled) that we have reported today:

• lateral joiners: Namitha Mathews had joined as a Delhi disputes partner, and Ankit Guha in corporate.
• departures: Siddharth Manchanda and Minhaz Lokhandwala had moved to IndusLaw, Vinayak Mishra had joined Lightspeed in-house, and Archan Chakraborty and Vijay Santosh to PwC.