Law firms

AZB & Partners has promoted two to partner across Delhi and Mumbai: Pranav Atit, general corporate, Mumbai, andAbhimanyu Chopra, dispute resolution, Delhi.

Khaitan & Co has promoted a total of 22 principal associates and counsel to salaried partner positions.

Trilegal will promote five counsel into its equity partnership, we authoritatively understand, growing its partnership to a total of 63.

As many firms had frozen salaries (or recently unfrozen them), Trilegal has paid out an unconditional one month’s extra salary to all fee-earners and staff, on top of expected usual performance-related bonus payments and scheduled PQE increments, two sources with knowledge of the move have confirmed.

Khaitan & Co adding VoxLaw managing partner Udayan Choksi as a partner in indirect tax.

Clifford Chance Singapore capital markets and India group partner Rahul Guptan is set to join White & Case, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.

2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate Debolina Saha had started Internship Bank in December 2019 as a non-profit initiative to provide internships in the Indian legal profession to women, which we had covered in April 2020.

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

Former AZB & Partners Delhi capital markets partner Madhurima Mukherjee Saha had joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) in June 2020 as an independent senior consultant.

Khaitan & Co first-year associate and NLIU Bhopal 2020 graduate Devansh Srivastava has passed away early yesterday morning after a cardiac arrest.

White-collar crime and dispute resolution firm MZM Legal LLP has hired Mohammad Shine as a partner in its criminal litigation practice.

Jerome Merchant + Partners has hired Palash Gupta, India desk and international arbitration head of Collyer Law based in Manila, Philippines, and Singapore, to in turn head its international arbitration offering.

Following his resignation from L&L Partners in January, lateral capital markets partner Jitesh Shahani has joined S&R Associates as a partner in Mumbai.