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May 03 2012
Indian firm KS Partners has expanded its insurance practice with the hire of two partners from Tuli & Co. Mrinal Ojha and Trinath Tadakamalla joined the Delhi office...
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Mar 21 2012
Indian law firm M.V. Kini & Co has boosted capacity with two new hires - tax partner Shrikant Kamat will be joining the firm’s Mumbai office and corporate partner Ram...
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Feb 15 2012
Indian law firms Udwadia & Udeshi and Argus Partners are set to merge on April 1, 2012. The combined firm will operate under the name Udwadia, Udeshi & Argus Partners,...
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Feb 08 2012
Indian law firm ALMT has promoted four associates to the partnership, elevating Vaishakh Kapadia and Kruti Desai in Mumbai and Junia Sebastian and Rajat Bopaiah in...
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Oct 17 2011
Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted five lawyers into the lockstep equity partnership and has appointed 11 practice heads. The firm aims to have a headcount of 1000...
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Oct 10 2011
Indian firm J. Sagar Associates has hired Promod Nair as a Partner in the Bangalore office.
Nair previously working as a Senior Associate with Herbert Smith’s...
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Aug 04 2011
Khaitan &Co has boosted its Bangalore office with the hire of partner Anindita Phukan. Phukan is followed by her team from Phukan & Associates – the firm she founded a...
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Jul 05 2011
AZB & Partners has beefed up its management team with the appointment of senior partner Abhijit Joshi to the newly created chief executive officer (CEO) role. In the...
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May 21 2011
Private equity firms Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures India have invested $5 million each in Sourcebits, a Bangalore-based third-party developer of mobile...
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May 06 2011
J Sagar Associates has promoted six of its lawyers to retained partnership from their Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore offices.
Trisheet Chatterjee and Manvinder Singh...
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Apr 25 2011
Clifford Chance has taken a leading role on Vedanta Resources’ $1.5 billion stock purchase of Cairn Energy’s India business. Under the deal, Vedanta will buy a 10.4...
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Feb 10 2011
Five NLSIU (National Law School of India University, Bangalore) students have filed a complaint at the Consumer Forum against Pepsi.
The complaint pertains to the...
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Feb 09 2011
Indian firm AZB & Partners has hired 26 new lawyers, including fresh graduates, in an effort to bolster its ranks. In the past six months the firm lost key alliances...
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Jan 31 2011
The National Law School of India Review, the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore in association with the Nani Palkhivala...
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Jan 31 2011
The Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) held a two-day conference, in association with the National law School of India University (NLSIU, Bangalore) over...
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Jan 25 2011
The investment banking giant, UBS, has hired Nischal Hindia (pictured) as an Executive Director to assume the role of country counsel for investment banking in India....
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Jan 07 2011
Strides Arcolab has acquired a 70 percent controlling stake in Inbiopro Solutions based in Bangalore (a biotechnology firm) in an investment of Rs. 65 crore ($14.1...
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Dec 27 2010
The merger of Bangalore based Anup Shah Law Firm and AZB & Partners has only lasted slightly more than a year as both of them have decided to ‘re-align’ their...
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Dec 25 2010
One-and-a-half years after merging with Anup S Shah law firm in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, AZB & Partners and Anup Shah and his firm have decided to part ways...
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Dec 21 2010
The National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) was hit by storming activists on Sunday, who claimed that the law school is not meeting the requirements...
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Nov 12 2010
The Ninth Edition of the National Law School of India (NLSIU) debate which took place between 6 November, 2010 and 10 November,2010 at the NLSIU campus in Bangalore...
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Aug 27 2010
Krishnamurthy and Co has opened up a new Delhi office and moved into a larger Mumbai office, as well as setting up an expansion path in Chennai and commencing...
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Aug 24 2010
The School of Excellence in Law , Chennai walked away being winners of the inaugural Christ Law School moot court competition after beating KLE Law College, Bangalore...
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Aug 13 2010
Eversheds is set to outsource legal support staff roles, including HR, administration and finance jobs, after signing a seven year agreement with Accenture.
Around...
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Aug 04 2010
This year Luthra & Luthra and Amarchand have been the biggest recruiters so far for the batch graduating in 2011 followed by Trilegal and Khaitan.
Luthra has hired...
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Jul 12 2010
A murder at the Karnataka High Court premises has shocked not only the legal fraternity, but the entire city. A 25 year old advocate, J.S. Naveena was stabbed in the...
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May 05 2010
AZB & Partners has won the award for the Best National Law Firm in the India category at the Chambers Asia Law Awards, held on May 1 in Singapore. AZB was created when...
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Apr 30 2010
Invensys Process System, a Singapore based subsidiary of the London based Invensys Plc, a global IT group, acquired a 100 percent stake in Bangalore-based Skelta...
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Jan 05 2010
In a breaking story, Bar & Bench has received information that 9 Partners and 60 Associates have left Dua Associates to form a new firm, Tatva Legal. Sources from Dua...
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Sep 14 2009
Indian law firms gear up for an entry of big foreign law firms.
Mumbai-based law firm AZB & Partners acquired Bangalore’s real estate firm Anup S Shah. Later this...
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Jul 28 2009
Mumbai law firm AZB & Partners, Indian ally of Clifford Chance, has bought Bangalore-based Anup S. Shah Law Firm in a move to strengthen its operations in southern...
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Jun 08 2009
International law firm Clyde & Co has announced the formation of an association with Indian law firm ALMT Legal, which has offices in London, Mumbai and Bangalore....
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