start-up law firms
Khaitan & Co has bolted on the Chennai-based law firm Assentio Legal, which had been started by Thriyambak Kannan, Rohan Cherian and Renu Gopalakrishnan, who will join from 1 July with their team in Khaitan’s Chennai and Bengaluru offices.
The general counsel (GC) of Tata Sons, Shuva Mandal, is set to exit for Mumbai-based start-up law firm Anagram Legal, which we understand he has been instrumental in setting up, according to three sources with authoritative knowledge of the news.
Phoenix Legal Delhi-based insurance disputes partners Mrinal Ojha, Trinath Tadakamalla and Debarshi Dutta have resigned from the firm and are expected to be in the process of setting up their own law firm, called Solaris Legal.
The 2018-founded Mumbai-based disputes firm White & Brief, which was started by former Ram Jethmalani junior Nilesh Tribhuvann, is going full-service and has hired two lateral partners and promoted one, with significantly more expansion pledged for the coming months and several big-name clients such as Apple and Indigo to boot.
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Tushar Ajinkya and his team including associate partner Ankita Kashyap and three others, have set up a boutique corporate law firm in Mumbai.
Delhi-based four-year-old start-up law firm Palit & Co has expanded to five partners after hiring Amit Jain, who was formerly an executive partner at Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS), as a partner in Delhi on 2 November.
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) equity partner Darshan Upadhyay and partners Shyam Pandya, Amit Manubarwala and Bhavin Gada, have started up a specialist corporate firm called Stratage Law Partners.
Former Mumbai-based Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) lawyer Karan Kalra, has started up his own law firm, called Bombay Law Chambers (BLC), specialising on venture capital (VC) and corporate advice, in addition to a novel twist on the model of him becoming an external quasi-general counsel (GC) to funds and corporates.
IndusLaw partner Anupam Prasad has set up an independent firm called AP Law Chambers around six weeks ago.
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.
Four young lawyers - Arush Khanna, George Thomas, Lakshmi Raman and Chaitanyaa Bhandarkar - have jointly entered into an all-equity partnership called Numen Law Offices to focus on multi-disciplinary dispute resolution and criminal litigation firm with offices in Delhi and Mumbai, according to a press release.
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.
TMT Law Practice, which had separated from Bharucha Singh Mundkur in March, has laterally hired two salaried partners and opened up in Mumbai.
Two lawyers from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and one from a real estate developer have started their own law firm, Menon Verma.
The ex-co-founding partner of Trilegal, Anand Prasad, has started up a four-partner boutique law firm AP & Partners after two years as an independent counsel and budding politician.
IndusLaw Delhi disputes partner Sandeep Grover has left the firm and started dispute resolution firm Ortis Law Offices with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas principal associate designate Aditya Nayyar as co-founding partner.