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19 December 2019

Around 30 NLSIU Bengaluru students had been detained by local police earlier today between 11am to 530pm, alongside NLS professor Kunal Ambasta and (non-NLS) historian Ramachandra Guha, after protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

17 December 2019

Following a joint statement by the elected student representative bodies of eight national law university, opposing a police crackdown on student protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, the NLSIU Bangalore student body as a whole has passed an “unequivocal condemnation” of the police’s “assault on the rule of law, morality and democratic ethos and tradition that is fundamental to dignified living” (see picture above).

03 August 2016

K Law has hired as Delhi partners Abhishek Shinde and Atish Kumar Vatts, the two co-founding partners of Citius Law Partners, who did not join HSA Advocates in Bangalore with fellow co-founder Sharath Chandrasekhar in June.

16 July 2015

Life at the Cam to life at the CitiCyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner designate Nidhi Parekh will join Citi India’s legal team as senior vice president.

06 June 2013

Pramod RaoPramod Rao, the founder partner of IndusLaw’s Mumbai office and former general counsel (GC) of ICICI Bank, will join Citibank India as its GC in July.

29 May 2013

BeriCiti South Asia general counsel (GC) Sandip Beri has resigned to go back to private practice according to legal website Bar & Bench.

Beri had joined Citi from GE Capital in 2010, as reported by Legally India.

He graduated as a lawyer from Delhi University in 1983 and obtained an LLM from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1995.  

As an LLB graduate he was with Unilver for one year after which he practiced independently until 1992. He joined Sidley Austin Chicago after his LLM in 1995.

After leaving Sidley in 2000 he was the GC of GE Money, GE Commercial Finance and GE Capital and assistant GC at Genpact.

Beri is qualified to practice in India and the US, and specializes in corporate & securities law, M&A, banking & structured finance, private equity, government relations, international transactions with particular focus on India, outsourcing transactions, legal outsourcing, and regulatory compliance.

He currently also offers a course on fundamentals of financial services law at JGLS Sonipat.

Beri was not reachable for comment at the time of going to press.

Picture courtesy: jgls.edu.in

12 May 2010

citibank-branchCiti India has hired former GE Capital India general counsel (GC) Sandip Beri as Citi India head legal and Clifford Chance senior associate Munish Nagpal as head legal of Citigroup Global Markets India.

30 October 2009

sequoia-trees_by-JoiDesai & Diwanji, DSK Legal and Wadia Ghandy have triple-teamed on the $100m private equity investment into Hyderabad power company Ind-Barath Power Infra.