Madras high court
IndusLaw has ramped up its Mumbai corporate offering significantly with the hire of two from Algo Legal who are due to join: partner Siddharth Manchanda and associate partner Minhaz Lokhandwala.
The Mahindra Group’s real estate and infrastructure development arm, Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Limited, has hired Parveen Mahtani as its chief legal officer, based in Mumbai.
HSA Advocates has hired Agarwal Law Associates lawyer Manan Shukla as a partner in its Delhi disputes team.
NLSIU Bangalore’s executive council (EC) on Saturday signed off on its permanent faculty recruitments, which had been long-pending due to the EC having been repeatedly postponed due to Covid-19 after interviews had been carried out.
Senior capital markets lawyer Madhurima Mukherjee, who had left AZB & Partners in April, has enlisted with J Sagar Associates (JSA) as an independent senior consultant, we understand from several sources.
These days there are probably few if any lawyers who, locked up at home for weeks and often 24 hours a day, has not pondered about their mental health.
Scoop: Corporate transactional saw the lion's share of associate promos, alongside the Delhi and Bangalore offices 
The Delhi high court has disposed of a 2019 writ petition challenging the appointment of NLU Delhi Prof Mrinal Satish as chairperson of the Delhi Judicial Academy (DJA), after Satish left and rejoined NLU Delhi in order to teach again.
Scoop: Gupta was fifth-ranked in our 2018-19 league table of corporate dealmakers. 
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan has hired Ashwin Mathew as a M&A, private equity and general corporate and finance partner in Mumbai.