The latest partner of L&L Partners, Nirupam Lodha, has quit and will be joining Khaitan & Co.

Khaitan executive director Amar Sinhji commented confirmed his joining in Delhi’s intellectual property practice.

Sinhji said: “Trademarks, copyrights and patent applications have seen tremendous growth in India since 2016.

“He comes on board when we are seeing a steady rise of our (India’s) ranking on the global intellectual property index.

“IPR (Prosecution & Transactions) is also a fast growing practice at KCO and Nirupam is a part of that growth story for us!”

Lodha had been at Luthra & Luthra, as it then was, since 2007, having joined directly from NLU Jodhpur.

Bar & Bench had reported yesterday in the ongoing court dispute between co-founding partners Rajiv Luthra and Mohit Saraf in the Delhi high court, that Saraf’s counsel Vikas Singh had denied Luthra’s claim that the firm’s revenue was “soaring”.

Singh had submitted: “This statement is definitely a wrong statement. The accruals are not to be confused with the billings. 60 lawyers and 7 partners have left the firm.”

We have reached out to Saraf and Luthra for comment.

Recent partners in the corporate partnership to have quit include:

• corporate partner Damini Bhalla, who will join Zomato as general counsel,
• capital markets partner Jitesh Shahani, who joined S&R.
• two partners Apurva Jayant and Samarth Gupta left in October 2020.

We understand that two partners in the litigation practice are expected to leave.

However, some partners have also joined since the dispute: two partners in litigation, J Sagar Associates (JSA) TMT partner Asim Abbas, and Advani & Co partner Shonali Choudhry in Mumbai.