office moves
Exclusive: Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) moved to a new 15,000 square feet Bangalore office in the World Trade Centre (WTC) from its Anand Rao Circle office on Friday (8 June).
Khaitan & Co has moved into a larger office in Bangalore, vowing to increase head-counts by nearly 50 per cent there within the next six months.
Exclusive: Desai & Diwanji has relocated its corporate transactions group to a new 8,500 square foot office in Gurgaon’s DLF Phase III while keeping its earlier central Delhi premises for the litigation team while finalising another Delhi location.
Exclusive: Luthra & Luthra will move into new interim offices in Lower Parel this weekend, having finalised office space of 12,000 square foot in the Indiabulls complex enabling a tripling of current headcounts.
Exclusive: Phoenix Legal has moved to a new Delhi office with space for 40 as the firm is set to implement a new career development framework for its fee-earners.
Exclusive: DSK Legal will split across North and South Mumbai and move out of Nariman Point's Express Towers after securing office space in the Lower Parel Indiabulls Centre, which also houses three other law firms.
Exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has abandoned its high-rent offices at short notice after less than four months in the premises, which has caused logistical difficulties and shut down the Airtel-operated bar exam telephone helplines for nearly a week now.
Suman Khaitan's Khaitan & Partners has moved to a bigger office in Delhi to combine its litigation and corporate law practices which until now were servicing clients from two different locations, aiming to further expand after the consolidation.
Luthra & Luthra has leased another half-floor of 7,000 square feet in its Delhi office.
Bharucha & Partners is moving its corporate department making and half the firm into Talwar Thakore Associates former Mumbai office, almost doubling its available floorspace in Mumbai.
ALMT Legal has voted for South Mumbai and taken on an extra 50 per cent of floor space in Mumbai's busy Express Towers building, to make room for future expansion.
Hariani & Co has moved into a new office almost twice the previous size in Mumbai offering, after one of its partners relocated from Bangalore.
SN Gupta & Co has started up an M&A practice in Mumbai by hiring a Khaitan & Co senior associate as a partner and an associate from Hemant Sahai Associates.
The firm has also taken on new office space in Mumbai and plans to build a litigation team.
Linklaters best friend Talwar Thakore & Associates has leased a new office in the Fort area with 70 per cent more floor space, bucking the recent trend of Mumbai firms moving North.
Luthra & Luthra has leased a new floor in its existing Delhi building, moving its corporate team of 60 heads into the 7,000 square-foot-area last week.
Legally India is a big fan of South Mumbai but the city's centre of legal gravity is gradually shifting North.
Both Khaitan & Co and Trilegal will take up residence in a new development in Lower Parel, joining Amarchand and several smaller firms in the area.
Last month Phoenix Legal also took a new address above the trendy nightspot Blue Frog in Lower Parel; the new office has a capacity of 30 but the firm is currently only six lawyers strong there.
Trilegal will be the second law firm to move into Lower Parel's One Indiabulls Centre in November, joining Khaitan & Co in the same Mumbai office block. Trilegal is also moving into its long-planned new office in Delhi this month and preparing for its move in Bangalore.
Khaitan & Co's Mumbai office is moving from the Ballard Estate area to Lower Parel, where it has taken a lease of a large space allowing it to double in size in future.
Delhi-based firm Priti Suri & Associates has moved into a new office that is more than twice its previous size, which is the first step in its plans to evolve out of a sole proprietorship model.
AZB & Partners yesterday (9 June) moved to a new office in Noida from New Delhi, in a bid to provide additional space for existing and future staff.
The firm had been looking for a new office for two years and last year it found its new property in Noida's commercial district, which is around 15km away from its former office in the heart of New Delhi.