Chander Lall

The Delhi high court has designated new senior counsel, including, as long expected, Chander Lall and Akhil Sibal.

Internally sometimes called the youngest legal head of India’s largest and oldest biscuit maker, Britannia Industries head of legal Burhan Khalid has litigation on his platter, and a lot of it.

IP powerhouse Singh & Singh & Lall & Sethi (SS&LS), just over two years after it was created in the merger of IP firms Singh & Singh and Lall & Sethi, will be breaking into two again after SS&LS managing partner Chander Lall is expected to get designated this year as a senior advocate by the Delhi high court.

Boutique intellectual property (IP) firms Lall & Sethi and Singh & Singh have merged to form the nine-partner, 27-lawyer firm SIngh & Singh Lall & Sethi effective 1 April, reported Bar & Bench.

Lall & Sethi managing partner Chander Lall told B&B that “the new firm can now handle both IP litigation and prosecution. We have truly become a composite boutique powerhouse in intellectual property. We can now cover all areas of intellectual property with a litigation experience, which is unmatched”.

Singh & Singh was founded by Pratibha Singh and her husband Maninder Singh in 1997. Both are now senior counsel, with Maninder Singh having been appointed additional solicitor general last year. In 2012, as the sole proprietor of the firm had sued Singh & Associates in the Delhi high court for passing off her firm’s name.

This is the third reported law firm merger in 2015, after Dhruva Vox and V Law and DH Law.

A senior associate has rejoined Lall & Sethi Advocates as partner after a two-year stint at Luthra & Luthra.