start-up law firms
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.
Former HSA Advocates managing partner Amitabh Sharma, who had resigned in April from the role, has started up a new law firm called LexRidge Partners, with former Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan partner Vikas Kumar and former AZB senior legal counsel Naved Askari, according to the firm’s press release.
Advaita Legal principal Gaurav Gupta has set up an independent litigation practice called Vantage Law Chamber (VLC) focusing primarily on servicing consultancy firms with litigation support services.
Siddharth Raja, Aditya Narayan and Megha Malhotra Narayan, partners who left Argus Partners earlier this week, have started up their Bangalore-based firm Saakshya Law.
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) indirect tax partners MP Devnath and Vivek Sharma, and associate partner Abhishek Anand, who had joined in 2017 after leaving Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS), have joined Seetharaman & Associates, which has now rebranded to Sarvada Legal.
Argus Partners Bangalore senior partner Siddharth Raja and husband-and-wife partner duo Aditya Narayan, Megha Narayan will be setting up their own law firm.