Seth Dua & Associates

Advaita Legal, the best friend law firm of Big Four consultancy KPMG, has hired Atul Dua, the erstwhile co-founding partner of Seth Dua & Associates.

Phoenix Legal has hired Vasanth Rajasekaran as its 16th partner from Seth Dua & Associates in Delhi, where he had worked with co-founder Sunil Seth before his death in February 2017.

Alpha Partners, the boutique started in 2012 in Noida by former SRGR lawyer Akshat Pande, demerged from Seth Dua Associates (SDA) on 1 April after a full year of operating as SDA’s Noida office.

Bharti Airtel’s director legal Sameer Chugh leads, in his words, a “fast-paced” industry.

Erstwhile Seth Dua & Associates (SDA) co-founding partner Atul Dua, is in court for the release of the firm’s lawyers’ salaries, after the successors of the late co-founder of the firm, Sunil Seth, entered into a dispute with him over withdrawals from the firm’s bank account.

Sunil Seth, the co-founder and senior partner of Seth Dua & Associates, passed away yesterday (5 February) after a motorcycle accident.

Seth Dua & Associates (SDA) partner Salman Waris has started up a technology and intellectual property focussed law firm TechLegis, with a team of 10 lawyers including former Fox Mandal lawyers Hamdullah Sayeed, Nitin Kumar and Lalit Ambastha.

Advani & Co partner Kshitij Sancheti has joined Seth Dua & Associates as a corporate partner in its Mumbai office, following two new associate partners having joined the firm last year after four partners left.

Delhi firm Seth Dua & Associates hired former Khaitan & Co senior associate Gaurav Dhwaj in telecoms, media and technology (TMT) and Vaish Associates senior associate Upvan Gupta in tax as associate partners.£££para£££

Seth Dua & Associates advised Chinese telco ZTE Corporation in filing a winding up petition against Indian phone service provider Loop Mobile in the Bombay high court

Seth Dua advised the Builders Association of India (BAI) in the Competition Appellate Tribunal against 11 cement companies.

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

Exclusive: Former Seth Dua & Associates partner Rahul Goel has joined Dhir & Dhir Associates as a retained partner with Seth Dua senior associate Anu Monga. Goel will set up new practices at Dhir handling competition, anti-dumping and international trade, and advisory technology, media and telecommunications (TMT).

When miners, car importers, cricket team owning media houses and tobacco producers marched to the referees, the advisors won. Here’s presenting firsts in CCI orders, the post-Bhatia International field, errant Deccan Chargers’ owners and more…

Amarchand on Fortis mammoth internal restructuring, and Alfa Laval delisting; Desai & Diwanji and Seth Dua on two related private equity injections; Khaitan & Co gets close to Raiffeisen; JSA helps Naukri owner expand online reach to Zomato and beyond;  MDP gets Cox & Kings out of Maharaja Express pickle for now; JSA and MD&T Partners get Indians to make hoses with Spaniards.

Singhania and Partners, represented by Seth Dua & Associates, has made a complaint against software giant Microsoft before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) alleging anti-competitive practices and abuse of a dominant position, according to news channel CNBC TV18.

Seth Dua & Associates litigation partner Neeraj Chaudhry has joined Kochhar & Co as a partner in the litigation department, which now consists of 15 lawyers inclusive of four partners in Delhi.