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HSA Advocates has hired Advaita Legal partner Shailendra Kumar Singh, counsel Alok Shankar and principal Monali Dutta as partners in HSA’s Delhi office with their teams of another seven fee-earners.

Bengaluru-based Tatva Legal co-founding partner Manav Nagaraj will be joining Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) with his team, including partner Bhargava KS, we have reliably learned.

Phoenix Legal Delhi-based insurance disputes partners Mrinal Ojha, Trinath Tadakamalla and Debarshi Dutta have resigned from the firm and are expected to be in the process of setting up their own law firm, called Solaris Legal.

Former AZB & Partners Delhi capital markets partner Madhurima Mukherjee Saha had joined J Sagar Associates (JSA) in June 2020 as an independent senior consultant.

White-collar crime and dispute resolution firm MZM Legal LLP has hired Mohammad Shine as a partner in its criminal litigation practice.

HSA Advocates has hired Dr Madhumita Kothari as a dispute resolution partner based in Delhi.

Delhi-based IndusLaw partner Manishi Pathak has resigned early last week.

The 2018-founded Mumbai-based disputes firm White & Brief, which was started by former Ram Jethmalani junior Nilesh Tribhuvann, is going full-service and has hired two lateral partners and promoted one, with significantly more expansion pledged for the coming months and several big-name clients such as Apple and Indigo to boot.

At least two Indian law students have secured this year’s Rhodes Scholarship to study for a fully-funded postgraduate degree at Oxford University.

Orbit Law Services has promoted four of its partners into equity, following the retirement of co-founding partner PV Rao and a corresponding widening and redistribution of equity.

The law firm Singh & Associates, which has been on a lateral hiring spree this year, has been raided by the government’s Income Tax Department (ITD) yesterday as part of a raid on its founding partner Manoj K Singh.