Law firms

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 23 of its fee-earners to partner, reported Bar & Bench.

IndusLaw has added yet another lateral hire partner with employment law principal associate Vaibhav Bhardwaj joining the firm in Delhi.

IC Universal Legal last week opened an office in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), with Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, hot-on-its-heels, announcing today that it had also done so.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has hired AZB & Partners counsel Vinay Butani as a partner in its corporate commercial practice, while promoting 17 others into senior non-equity-partner-equivalent roles.

Khaitan & Co has internally rolled out a set of guidelines to improve staff and fee-earners’ well-being as the pandemic has caused turnovers and workloads to grow, while traditional physical office support networks and the ability to switch off have largely disappeared for many.

The Bangalore head of Nishith Desai Associates' office, Parag Srivastava, has joined has joined Rajaram Legal in the city as its third partner there.

IndusLaw’s capital markets team, which had been poached nearly lock-stock-and-barrel from L&L Partners in 2019, has won its highest-profile mandate to date in its role for the banks on the upcoming and eagerly-awaited Zomato initial public offering (IPO).

London-based international Magic Circle law firm Linklaters has elevated banking team managing associate Pathik Gandhi to partner.

Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) has elected counsel Nidhi Rani and Priyanka Kumar to become partners in the firm.