in-house moves
Former Luthra & Luthra partner Rajesh Chavda, who as we had reported on 2 November had left the firm, has now joined IDFC Alternatives as director legal and compliance.
(Go)Indigo has a new GC: Gibson Dunn counsel Priya Mehra joins from Singapore with associate Bahadur
Indigo has hired a new general counsel (GC) with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Singapore-based of counsel Priya Mehra, reported Bar & Bench.
UAE Exchange Financial Services associate director legal Mandakini Sharma has moved from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai to join a subsidiary of Swiss pharma major, Roche Diabetes Care India, as its head of compliance, as first reported by VCCircle.
Essar Power general counsel (GC) Sumant Nayak will be joining Desai & Diwanji as a partner in Mumbai.
Dhananjay Shahi, former senior vice president legal at Religare Enterprises, has joined Baring Private Equity Asia’s newly set up lending arm as head of legal and executive vice president.
JPMorgan India has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas consultant Shubhra Tewari as assistant general counsel and vice president legal, taking its total legal team to eight lawyers and three company secretaries.
SunEdison India general counsel (GC) and director legal of six years, Vinay Bhatia, has joined the IL&FS Financial Services as its new general counsel based in Chennai.
Luthra & Luthra Delhi projects partner Rajesh Chavda has left the firm.
HSA Advocates added former Apollo Tyres global chief legal counsel Atulya Sharma as a banking and finance partner, in Delhi.
Sequoia Capital legal counsel Tanmay Amar will join as India general counsel (GC) Omidyar Networks, the “philanthropic investment firm” started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar in 2004, according to sources with knowledge of his move.
Singapore-based Baring Private Equity Asia deputy general counsel Kirti Ram Hariharan has been promoted to general counsel transactions at the company last month.
Former Amarchand Mangaldas private client practice (PCP) director Mugdha Sahal, who had started her own practice Metasis Legal two years ago, has joined Sanctum Wealth Management as head of wealth planning in Mumbai, according to a press release.
IL&FS Financial Services legal head and general counsel (GC) Damini Marwah has quit, VCCircle first reported today, with Bar & Bench reporting today that she has joined Axis Bank as its general counsel to replace TS Asokraj who is retiring.
Sankalp Dalal, the legal head of Times Music, will be joining Zee Music as its new legal head from August.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has scooped Cognizant Technology Solutions India & APAC region general counsel (GC) Anand Bhushan to set and head up its new Chennai office after he fully leaves a little later this month, according to three authoritative sources.
Essar Group general counsel (GC) Hemant Kumar has resigned to Larsen &Toubro as its group general counsel, reported the Economic Times:
Mukesh Bhavnani has returned to be group general counsel (GC) at Bharti Enterprises after a year of stints as Vedanta's GC and some time out.
Former Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group’s India lead counsel Simrata Gujral joined JP Morgan’s Asia Pacific corporate and institutional banking (CIB) Legal Team as assistant general counsel.
Deutsche Bank India senior legal counsel Sapna Bhawnani will join Credit Suisse in Mumbai as its joint director and co-head of legal India in the coming months.
Freshly minted Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner Himanshu Dodeja will join private equity major Blackstone as its India general counsel (GC).