Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) principal associate Abir Dey is joining L&L Partners in Mumbai in its banking and finance practice.

As the latest national law school (NLU) to make major concessions to its state government, NLU Delhi is introducing a 50% state domicile reservation for the upcoming applications, held via the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) on 3 May 2020.

National head of banking and finance and partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Sapan Gupta, is set to join Indo-French multinational steel ArcelorMittal in a senior regional general counsel (GC)-like role in Mumbai, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.

Scoop: Hemant Sahai says firm will be back up to 30 partners in coming months

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) partner Siddharth Nair will remain with the firm but has moved from Bangalore to Delhi in a primarily non-fee-earning role, we understand.

Poovayya & Co has promoted Bangalore-based Pallavi Smriti to partner in its litigation practice, with effect from this year.

Former Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai partner Vedant Shukla has joined Ultratech Cement as general manager (GM) legal for global M&A.

Jones Day has promoted 2007 NLSIU Bangalore graduate and former AZB & Partners associate Vinay Kurien to its partnership in Singapore, with effect from 1 January 2020.

IndusLaw partner Navin Syiem, who has left the firm in December of last year, is set to join L&L Partners we have reliably learnt.

AZB & Partners transaction support group (TSG) partner Ami Parikh has left the firm, according to her Linked-in and Bar & Bench.

Scoop: Gupta was fifth-ranked in our 2018-19 league table of corporate dealmakers.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) partner Varun Sehgal has joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) as a corporate partner in Delhi.

Link Legal India Law Services partner Siddharth Srivastava will be joining Khaitan & Co in its banking and projects practice in Delhi.

He is possibly only the second lawyer after InterGlobe’s Aditya Ghosh to be making a similar journey from GC to CEO at such a major corporate

Mumbai-based Credit Suisse director and India head of legal, Sapna Bhawnani, is set to join KKR in the new year as its second in-house lawyer in India.

Following a joint statement by the elected student representative bodies of eight national law university, opposing a police crackdown on student protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, the NLSIU Bangalore student body as a whole has passed an “unequivocal condemnation” of the police’s “assault on the rule of law, morality and democratic ethos and tradition that is fundamental to dignified living” (see picture above).

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan has hired Ashwin Mathew as a M&A, private equity and general corporate and finance partner in Mumbai.

Former Sequoia India general counsel (GC) Sandeep Kapoor has quietly expanded a start-up law firm to three offices in 11 partners (of whom three are associate partners) in the space of only three-odd months since opening its doors on 1 August.

HSA Advocates has hired Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Ashutosh Gupta as a partner and as chief strategy officer.

Parinam Law Associates has grown to 12 partners nationally, after hiring its second partner in Delhi, Swarupama Chaturvedi, who is joining with six associates on the firm’s first anniversary of founding.