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Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumbai star corporate partner Ashwath Rau and AZB & Partners Delhi senior partner Percy Billimoria have both served out their notice period in record time, with today being the last day at their respective firms until they swap firms later this week.

Around 25 fee-earners in the team of Ashwath Rau, who is set to join AZB & Partners Mumbai office with at least three partners, have been told that today will be their last day in the office, according to reliable sources.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Bangalore capital markets partner Arjun Lall has become head of the Southern India region, including Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has confirmed the hire of AZB & Partners senior partner Percy Billimoria as head of Delhi and chair of disputes, regulatory, advocacy and policy practice, as first reported by Legally India last week.

Ajay Sawhney, outgoing project finance partner at K Law, having joined from Link Legal a year earlier, will join Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in Delhi by 1 June.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner and national competition head Nisha Kaur Uberoi handed in her resignation yesterday and is set to join AZB & Partners in the coming months.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas will hire senior AZB & Partners Delhi partner Percival Billimoria to head up its Delhi office and national litigation practice, according to three authoritative sources.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner and competition head Nisha Kaur Uberoi is close to joining AZB & Partners in Mumbai.

NLIU Bhopal has placed 25 of its 2017-graduating students on its Day Zero of recruitments held between 1 and 3 April 2016, with a mix of large law firms and two corporates.

Three Delhi litigation partners hired by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas from Dua Associates one year ago - Neeraj Sharma, Alok Tiwari and Seshagiri Vadlamani - are leaving the firm.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas advised JSW Energy on its Rs 6500 crore ($975m) buy of Jindal Steel & Power’s thermal power plant in Chhattisgarh. CAM Mumbai and Delhi infrastructure and projects partners L Viswanathan and Ramanuj Kumar, respectively, Mumbai competition partner Nisha Uberoi and Mumba...

IC Legal advised the Puranik Group on raising Rs 300 crore ($46m) from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts which was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. IC Legal partner Sambhav Ranka and senior associate Souvik Roy acted for Puranik. CAM Mumbai partner Pranav Sharma acted for KKR KKR, through this investment...

Shagoofa Rashid Khan, the senior director and legal and compliance head at IDFC Alternatives, will join Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as a funds partner to take over some of the practice left by Ashwath Rau, who will be joining AZB & Partners, according to authoritative sources.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired J Sagar Associates (JSA) securities partners Manisha Kumar and Gautam Gandotra, who were part of the team soon-to-leave JSA partner Somasekhar Sundaresan.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has streamlined its complex internal structure that was first launched in September 2015.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired JP Morgan executive director and assistant general counsel Ruetveij Pandya as a Mumbai corporate partner.

Khaitan & Co advised drug major Cipla on raising funds in its arm Cipla Health, from FIL Capital Investments which was advised by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Khaitan partners Haigreve Khaitan, Bhavik Narsana, Kartick Maheshwari, Avaantika Kakkar, Adheesh Nargolkar and Sharad Vaid, associate part...

Three Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas non-equity partners - Ganesh Rao, Anu Tiwari and Dhruv Singhal - have handed in their notice today and will join AZB & Partners with the head of their team, Ashwath Rau, who announced his departure earlier this month.

Freshly minted Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner Himanshu Dodeja will join private equity major Blackstone as its India general counsel (GC).