Jerome Merchant + Partners

Jerome Merchant + Partners has hired two lateral dispute resolution lawyers, partner Rhia Marshall and Yashvardhan, a month after hiring Palash Gupta from Singapore as its head of international arbitration.

Jerome Merchant + Partners has hired Palash Gupta, India desk and international arbitration head of Collyer Law based in Manila, Philippines, and Singapore, to in turn head its international arbitration offering.

The Supreme Court began hearing challenges to the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) unceremonious decision to pull masters in laws (LLMs) into its regulatory orbit and ordering the ban of one-year LLM degrees (the most popular kind in India), reported LiveLaw and others.

Jerome Merchant + Partners advised IIFL India Private Equity Fund led by a team of partner Sameer Sibal along with associates Rishabh Amber Gupta, Nirav Bakshi and Paralegal Gayathri Kamath.

NLSIU Bangalore has made a press release about the conclusion of the dramatic retakes of the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) today, claiming a successful run yet again but declining to confirm how many actually sat for the re-takes.