Nishith Desai Associates

Former Mumbai-based Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) lawyer Karan Kalra, has started up his own law firm, called Bombay Law Chambers (BLC), specialising on venture capital (VC) and corporate advice, in addition to a novel twist on the model of him becoming an external quasi-general counsel (GC) to funds and corporates.

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) has reversed its salary freeze that we had first reported in June, giving annual salary increments to fee-earners with retrospective effect.

Kartik Maheshwari, Mumbai-based leader at Nishith Desai Associates (NDA), has resigned from the firm several month ago and will join Netflix India’s legal team soon, according to sources.

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) had circulated an internal email announcing a salary freeze for mid-level associates and above, due to the firm having experienced “stagnancy in the revenue growth for 2019”.