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IRA Law, the intellectual property and litigation boutique started up by four Anand & Anand alums, has added two more former Anand & Anand partners: senior partner of nearly three decades, Debjit Gupta, and partner Geetanjali Visvanathan have joined on 1 March.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) Mumbai-based banking and finance partner Deep Roy has left the firm last week.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi competition and technology, media and telecoms partner Rahul Goel, whom we had reported in January to have resigned with his team, will be joining IndusLaw.

Phoenix Legal Chennai head and partner Shadaan Mohammed Saipillai and tax litigator Arun Kurian Joseph have together set up local law firm Calibre Legal; Phoenix will shut shop in the city.

Following the departure of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Delhi tax and GST partner Sandeep Chilana for independent practice, which we had reported in December 2018, SAM has now lined up his long-anticipated replacement: EY executive director of indirect tax Rajat Bose.

Praxis Counsel co-founding partner Hemant Singh has left the five-partner electricity and regulatory firm with the bulk of its fee-earners to start a new regulatory firm called Charter Law Chambers.

Mumbai-based Trilegal co-founder Karan Singh will relocate to Bangalore within the next four months.

IndusLaw has moved into a larger Mumbai office and has worked at immediately filling the space: HSA Advocates litigation partners Amit Jajoo and Sushmita Gandhi will be joining with their team of six fee-earners.

AZB & Partners Mumbai-based competition lawyer Rahul Rai, has announced internally that he would step down from partnership and take up counsel position at the firm instead (for now).

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.

NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor (VC) Prof Venkata Rao is due to retire on 10 May 2019 and a search committee has been formed to find his successor, though it has not yet met, according to authoritative sources.

Thomson Reuters general counsel for global emerging markets, Bijoya Roy, has taken up the position to head Flipkart in Bangalore under its new Walmart owners.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Asim Abbas as a partner, after the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) specialist had left the firm late last year.

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.

Link Legal India Law Services associate partner Darshika Singh has joined Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co’s India subsidiary in-house, in its Delhi legal team in mid-January.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner Rahul Goel, who specialises in technology, media and telecoms, as well as competition law, has resigned together with his team, which includes partner-level director Anu Monga.

Top Mumbai litigation and real estate solicitors partnership Federal & Rashmikant has officially dissolved on 1 January 2019, as we had first reported in June 2018.

The Government of India has taken the second step on Tuesday in its revolutionary policies that could make the commercial usage of drones in India a reality, though teething problems have delayed implementation of the first policy so far and larger question marks remain about the best way of regulating a technology that countries the world over are still grappling with.

Cairn Oil & Gas general counsel (GC) Nitin Banerjee was elevated to group general counsel at Vedanta Limited on 20 December, finally filling in the gap created by his predecessor Mukesh Bhavnani’s exit more than three years ago.

After changing its constitution earlier this year, the partnership of J Sagar Associates (JSA) has today elected senior partner Delhi-based Amit Kapur into joint leadership at the firm, alongside partner Vivek K Chandy.