partner hires

Dua Associates Hyderabad practice head Varalakshmi Tadepalli has restarted her own firm, as 4 new partners join Dua.

Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Tatva Legal Hyderabad partner Rahul Sarella in the city, replacing Anshuman Jaiswal who is moving to Mumbai.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) hired Vyas as Mumbai litigation associate partner.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) is opening an office in Kolkata under former Amarchand Mangaldas partner Niloy Pyne.

Linklaters India partner set to join Magic Circle rival.

Talwar Thakore & Associates partner will re-join Links.

Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Citibank former South Asia general counsel Sandip Beri as a partner in Delhi.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) and Amarchand Mangaldas swap corporate lawyers into partnership.

After Dr Amardeep Kainth’s death this year, the management of Dr Kainth & Associates, the firm he had founded in 1995, has passed to former partner Anupama Venugopal.

Former Kainth & Associates partner Satish Srinivasan joined ALMT Legal as a partner in Bangalore in its general corporate practice effective today.

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate partners Amita Choudhary and Aysswarya Murthy are set to leave the firm.

Khaitan & Co promos Abhishek Sharma & Avaantika Kakkar to equity in Mumbai, hires start-up litigator Rahul Sahay in Delhi.

Pramod Rao, the founder partner of IndusLaw’s Mumbai office and former general counsel (GC) of ICICI Bank, will join Citibank India as its GC in July.

Four promoted internally as ex-FF consultant Priya Christian joined as a retained competition partner.

Khaitan Sud & Partners has hired ex-Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company in-house lawyer Ashutosh Singh as insurance partner and promoted principal associate Deepak Khurana to partnership in litigation, according to legal website Bar & Bench.

Khurana is a 2006 graduate from Delhi University, while Singh worked at Bajaj Allianz for five years specialising in motor claims and consumer litigation.

Luthra & Luthra litigation partner Ajit Warrier is to join Amarchand Mangaldas’ Delhi office after this month, according to legal website Bar & Bench’s sources but without official confirmation from the firms.

Warrier specialises in corporate litigation, having joined Luthra in 2006 after starting in chambers and independent litigation practice from 1993.

Luthra litigation partner Vijay Sondhi confirmed to Legally India that Warrier would join Amarchand.

Amarchand Delhi hires NLSIU grad and MBA.

Remfry & Sagar IP lit and corporate commercial head starts firm.