office openings
Khaitan & Co has announced that it would open an office in Chennai later this year with a relocation from Mumbai and the hiring of dispute resolution independent counsel Arva Merchant as a local partner in the city.
IC Universal Legal last week opened an office in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), with Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, hot-on-its-heels, announcing today that it had also done so.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) is expected to become the latest Indian law firm to set foot in Singapore from 12 February 2021 with a representative office in Singapore, which in recent years had fallen out of favour with firms in terms of having boots on the ground.
Khaitan & Co has moved into a managed offices in Bengaluru operated by its client WeWork, with a seating capacity of 150, which is nearly double its current local headcount; in the National Capital Region (NCR) it has relocated to a state-of-the-art but more traditional office space in Noida from Delhi.
Mumbai-headquartered Vertices Partners has opened in Gurgaon, headed by partner Shraddha Ray Menon, who had merged her boutique Ray Menon Law into the firm in October.
ANM expands with 2 associate partners, doubles down on media & entertainment with new Andheri office
ANM Global has hired its first two associate partners in Delhi and Mumbai, and has opened up a media and entertainment office in Andheri, according to a press release.
Saikrishna & Associates has hired Viacom18 Media senior vice president legal Thomas George and one team member to head it up to open up a Mumbai office, while also promoting five associate partners to partner, expanding its total partnership to 18.
Lakshmikumaran closes London office as Brexit paralysis kills clients’ appetite for British ventures
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) is closing its three-year-old London office, after the UK’s negotiations to leave the European Union (EU) have proved more hairy than anyone could have anticipated.
PSL Advocates & Solicitors has set up a small office in China’s fifth-larges city, Hangzhou, and is in the process of hiring a local lawyer there to capitalise on increasing outbound work to India.
Indirect tax boutique Nitya Tax Associates has opened an office in Bangalore and added former Deloitte associate director Sreekumar Nair as associate partner to head the new office.
Chetan Nagendra, former Bangalore partner of AZB & Partners, has joined Big 4 consultancy E&Y best friend law firm PDS Legal as a partner, to open up its Bangalore office, according to sources with knowledge of the move.
Bangalore-headquartered venture capital advisory powerhouse Themis Associates has hired former Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) principal associate Vinayak Mishra as a partner-equivalent consultant in Delhi to spearhead its expansion into the city.
Singhania & Partners has opened an office in Gurugram headed by partner Arjun Anand who is expanding the firm’s corporate practice.
NLU Jodhpur 2008 alumnus Anand Varma and his father Tarun Varma’s Delhi-based litigation start-up APT Legal has now opened offices in Mumbai, Allahabad and Jaipur, with more office openings in the offing.
Aquilaw has opened two offices in Mumbai today after absorbing JKB Legal and adding its managing attorney Jay Bhatia as partner in the firm.
Unlike many other large firms that have struggled to find good business in Hyderabad - Trilegal closed its office in January and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas only has a skeleton presence remaining there, Tatva has doubled down on the state following the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana bifurcation.
Former K Law Mumbai partner Praveen Raju’s two year old Bangalore start-up Spice Route Legal, which he started up with former Kochhar & Co Singapore partner Mathew Chacko, has opened an office in Kochi.