L&L Partners (formerly known as Luthra & Luthra) has hired ex-judicial magistrate from Jharkhand, Kanchan Jasmin Toppo, as a senior associate, Bar & Bench has reported exclusively.

Neha Sinha, who was made partner at L&L Partners (formerly Luthra & Luthra) in 2017, has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in a boost to its corporate practice, together with Trilegal counsel Karun Prakash, who is joining as a partner designate.

L&L Partners 2014-litigation partner Anirban Bhattacharya has left to make it as an independent arguing counsel, as first reported by Bar & Bench.

“The Federal Bank board has approved 26% strategic investment by private equity player True North in its wholly owned subsidiary - FedBank Financial Services (FedFina), a move that will help the company to grow its loans,” according to reports.

L&L Partners, formerly known as Luthra & Luthra, has hired two: Akshay Nagpal, associate general counsel of airline Indigo’s holding company, Interglobe Aviation Limited, is joining as a partner; HSK Legal founding partner Harish Kumar has joined as a partner designate.

L&L Partners - formerly known as Luthra & Luthra - Delhi corporate and M&A partner Anshul Jain has resigned from the firm and will leave later this month, we understand from sources.

Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, as its full official name has been, is now called L&L Partners Law Offices, we have learned from sources and Bar & Bench has reported.

Fortis Healthcare Limited was aquired by Malaysian-Singaporean healthcare group IHH Healthcare Berhad (through its wholly owned subsidiary, Northern TK Venture Pte Ltd), through a preferential issue of equity shares of Fortis for a consideration of Rs 4,000 crores at a price of Rs 170 per Equity Share amounting to 31.1% of Fortis’ share capital, as reported by Mint and others.

In what will be welcome to the firm’s corporate strength, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate finance and M&A partner Jay Parikh is set to join Luthra & Luthra in Mumbai early next month, according to authoritative market sources.

AZB & Partners acted on the biggest and greatest number of deals in the first quarter (Q1) of 2018, topping the charts across league tables published by mergermarket (MM) as well as by Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters (TR).

NLU Jodhpur has already placed 32 out of 103 students who will graduate the LLB degree next year, including three foreign firm vacation schemes.

The 25 winners of the Delhi bar council election have been announced, with an unprecedented two law firm lawyers making the cut.