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• O’Melveny & Myers appoints new head for Hong Kong practice

  May 18 2012 O’Melveny & Myers’ capital markets specialist David Johnson has been appointed as the head of the firm’s Hong Kong practice. Johnson will relocate from California... more

• Survey reveals instability in Indian legal services market

  May 17 2012 A new survey looking at the attitudes of lawyers in India has revealed significant instability in the legal services market, with just 15 per cent of lawyers saying... more

• Bar Council of India to appeal fly-in-fly-out ruling

  May 15 2012 International law firms have looked longingly at the booming legal services market in India for decades, but the country remains largely off limits for foreign... more

• Singapore firm Shook Lin & Bok hires BLP lawyer as India head

  May 10 2012 Singapore firm Shook Lin & Bok has hired Berwin Leighton Paisner senior associate Azmul Haque as a partner and the co-head the firm’s India practice.   Shook Lin’s... more

• Indian firm KS Partners expands with new hires and Bangalore launch

  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... more

• Amarchand and Luthra lead league table of Indian dealmakers in the first quarter of 2012

  Apr 27 2012 A league table of dealmakers in the Indian legal services market has put Amarchand Mangaldas Suresh A Shroff & Co and Luthra & Luthra at the top of the list - each... more

• Indian firm Economic Laws Practice absorbs Prism Partners

  Apr 18 2012 Indian law firm Economic Laws Practice has absorbed Prism Partners & Advocates, taking the smaller firm’s principal partners P. R. Ramesh and Yogesh Chande into its... more

• Indian law firm IndusLaw hires new Mumbai head

  Apr 17 2012 Indian law firm IndusLaw has hired the former general counsel at ICICI Bank Ltd. Pramod Rao began working with ICICI in 1996, and is set to end his tenure there in... more

• Chairman of the Bar Counsel of India nears end of term

  Apr 16 2012 The Chairman of the Bar Counsel of India is set to end his current term on 16 April without seeking re-election. Ashok Parija took over the role from former chair... more

• Indian firm Kochhar & Co is the first Indian law firm to launch an office in Japan

  Apr 13 2012 Indian law firm Kochhar & Co has launched a one-lawyer office in Tokyo after a two-year process to secure regulatory approval from the Japanese authorities.... more

• Squire Sanders set to launch in Singapore

  Apr 12 2012 Squire Sanders has announced the imminent launch of a new office in Singapore, after receiving an operating license from the Attorney-General's Chambers. The... more

• FoxMandal hires talent in Noida, India

  Apr 09 2012 FoxMandal has boosted its Noida office with the hire of Ashish Sarup as a partner and Joseph Koshy as a Consultant. Ashish, a real estate and M&A specialist,... more

• Khaitan, Anderson Mori, and Amarchand lead largest ever Indian mutual fund investment

  Apr 04 2012 Khaitan & Co and Japanese law firm Anderson Mori & Tomotsune have led a deal for the largest ever Indian mutual fund investment, with Asian private insurance leader... more

• Freddy R Daruwala joins Nasikwala Law Office

  Mar 28 2012 Former Juris Corp partner Freddy R Daruwala, a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) and a practicing lawyer, who resigned effective 15th February 2012, will join... more

• Indian law firms start taking professional indemnity insurance

  Mar 23 2012 There are no recorded cases of a former client suing his or her lawyer in India, but larger law firms across the country have started taking malpractice insurance... more

• Indian law firm M.V. Kini & Co takes on 2 new partners

  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... more

• AZB makes an internal partner promotion in Delhi

  Mar 19 2012 AZB & Partners has promoted corporate senior associate Debashish Sankhari to its partnership, bringing the Delhi office to 18 partners. Sankhari commented on the... more

• Top indian law firms compared: Amarchand & Mangaldas and AZB & Partners

  Mar 15 2012 Here is an interesting article that makes an account of differences between India's top two corporate law firms: Amarchand & Mangaldas and AZB & Partners. Via these... more

• Ropes & Gray hires ex-Amarchand lawyer as partner in London office

  Mar 14 2012 Ropes & Gray has hired a former White & Case senior associate as a partner in its London office. Anand Damodaran was previously an associate with Amarchand &... more

• Delegation offers Australia as leading venue for international dispute resolution

  Mar 12 2012 Australia has become a key forum for the resolution of international disputes in Asia, with a solid and robust legal framework that is attractive to international... more

• Indian law firms face leadership challenges

  Feb 24 2012 Livemint has published this interesting article on the leadership challenges faced by Indian law firms. While most law firms around the world are run as pure... more

• Court finds that foreign lawyers may fly-in and fly-out of India to give advice

  Feb 23 2012 The Madras high court has resolved the issue of whether foreign lawyers may fly into India temporarily to advise on international law. In a significant move, the Court... more

• Indian firm Amarchand plans to double headcount to 1000 lawyers in 5 years

  Feb 22 2012 India’s largest law firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co is pursuing a rapid expansion strategy, with plans to double in size over the next five years to... more

• Indian law firms Udwadia & Udeshi and Argus Partners set to merge

  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,... more

• Freshfields plans to relaunch in Singapore after five years' absence

  Feb 15 2012 Magic Circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is planning to relaunch its Singapore office, nearly five years after shutting down its former office in the region.... more

• FoxMandal and Little & Co Make De-merger Settlement

  Feb 14 2012 Indian firms FoxMandal and Little have ended their five-year old alliance, de-merging with a settlement agreement after internal conflicts between the partners led to... more

• Amarchand takes top rank among Indian firms working in project finance

  Feb 10 2012 Amarchand and Mangaldas has taken the top rank among Indian firms working in project finance, according to data provider Dealogic, edging out last year’s leader Luthra... more

• Indian firm ALMT promotes four to partnership

  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... more

• Foreign LPOs await decision on whether they can remain in India

  Feb 03 2012 The Madras High Court is deliberating on the future of 31 international legal process outsourcing firms in India, after counsel concluded arguments about the legality... more

• Debate continues about whether foreign lawyers may fly in to advise clients in India

  Jan 30 2012 The debate continues about whether it is permissible under Indian regulations for foreign lawyers to fly in to the country to advise clients on international and... more

• Vodafone Tax case restores investor confidence in India

  Jan 29 2012 Experts say that the landmark Vodafone tax case in the Supreme Court of India has boosted India’s image and reinforced standards of fairness and impartiality in the... more

• Integreon launches first LPO facility onshore in the UK

  Jan 28 2012 Legal services outsourcing firm Intergreon has launched its first centre in the UK, offering temp paralegal services to clients from its new base in Bristol. The... more

• 31% of judicial posts in India's high courts remain vacant

  Jan 23 2012 New reports show that 31 per cent of the sanctioned posts in India's high courts remain vacant - a whopping 285 vacant posts at the end of 2011. According to the... more

• Amarchand promotes associate to lead Hyderabad practice

  Dec 31 2011 Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted principal associate Anshuman Jaiswal to the partnership, and has given him leadership of the Hyderabad practice, replacing Kartik... more

• low numbers of female advocates in regional India

  Dec 28 2011 Gender inequality persists among lawyers in India, with female lawyers accounting for just 8 per cent of the of 3,149 advocates registered with the Gurgaon’s District... more

• Merger of Indian law firms ends up in court

  Dec 18 2011 Merger negotiations between two of India’s oldest law firms, FoxMandal and Co and Little & Co, have fallen in a heap after four years, precipitating a legal battle in... more

• Mumbai-based firm Wadia Ghandi secures practice licenses for Singapore base

  Dec 09 2011 Mumbai-based law firm Wadia Ghandy & Co is set to launch a fully operational base in Singapore, after partners Ankit Majmudar and Shabnum Kajiji secured their licences... more

• Salaries for Indian graduates double in five years

  Dec 05 2011 There is an interesting account – published in The Lawyer – of the dramatic increase in the salaries paid to graduates in top Indian law firms over the past five... more

• Indian firm Khaitan & Co boosts corporate and commercial team with ANS hire

  Dec 03 2011 Indian firm Khaitan & Co has boosted its corporate and commercial law practice with the hire of Sharad Abhyankar, a co-founding partner of ANS Law Associates. From... more

• ‘Perjury is rampant’: Ram Jethmalani on Indian courts and the art of cross-examination

  Nov 18 2011 Legally India has posted an interview with senior counsel and BJP parliamentarian Ram Jethmalani, addressing the art of cross-examination, Adam & Eve and why political... more

• The legal services market in India - bird's eye view

  Nov 15 2011 Here is a very interesting article providing a kind of anatomy of the Indian legal services market, ad touching upon the major players, changes, and the nature of the... more

• Cyprus law firm Michael Kyprianou & Co launches India desk

  Nov 07 2011 Cyprus law firm Michael Kyprianou & Co has launched an India desk to help Indian clients set up companies and do business in Cyprus and Greece, offering advice on... more

• An anatomy of the Indian legal profession by Kian Ganz

  Oct 31 2011 Kian Ganz, the publishing editor of www.LegallyIndia.com, here gives a brief anatomy of the legal services industry in India. The scale of the industry in India is... more

• Trilegal leads $432m acquisition of Indian paper manufacturer

  Oct 29 2011 Indian law firm Trilegal has taken a lead role on the acquisition of a majority stake in Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills by U.S. paper giant International Paper.... more

• Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques signs outsourcing agreement

  Oct 28 2011 Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques has announced that it will outsource legal work to India as a way of cutting costs in a tough market. The firm has signed an... more

• Where do the graduates go? Indian survey shows recruitment pattern

  Oct 12 2011 Bar & Bench has conducted a survey to determine the recruitment patter for 371 law school graduates from leading law schools in India; NLSIU, Bangalore; NALSAR,... more

• Indian firm J. Sagar Associates hires Herbert Smith attorney

  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... more

• UK and India to negotiate on access to Indian legal market

  Sep 28 2011 There appears to be some movement on the issue of access to the Indian legal market for foreign firms, with India’s Law Minister Salman Khurshid agreeing to work with... more

• British Justice Secretary vows to make the case against protectionist regulations on behalf of UK law firms

  Sep 27 2011 The British Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke expressed his enthusiam last week for the nation’s legal industry, pointing out that the legal sector is one of the most... more

• US venture capital firm creates in-house legal department in India with Amarchand hire

  Sep 19 2011 US venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners has created an in-house legal department in India with the hire of Amarchand Mangaldas principal associate Karan... more

• Dubai firm allies with Indian firm to expand aviation practice

  Aug 30 2011 Dubai-based law firm Donald H. Bunker and Associates has formed an alliance with Indian law firm Chandigarh-based Sarin & Co. Donald H. Bunker and Associates... more

• Indian firm Trilegal promotes two partners into equity lockstep

  Aug 16 2011 Trilegal has promoted two partners into the equity partnerhip. Mumbai corporate partners Nishant Parikh and Amit Tambe have been initiated into the first rung of the... more

• ALMT Legal adds a partner in London and one in Delhi

  Aug 12 2011 ALMT Legal has boosted its partnership team with the hire of two new partners. M&A and private equity specialist Garima Basu joins the firm from her independent... more

• Indian firm Luthra & Luthra promotes 3 to partnership

  Aug 11 2011 Indian law firm Luthra & Luthra has promoted three lawyers to partnership in its annual promotions round. Corporate managing associate Nivedita Tiwari and litigation... more

• LPO UnitedLex co-founder sells share to VCs with Amarchand, IndusLaw for $16m

  Aug 05 2011 Induslaw clients Helion Venture Partners, Canaan Partners and Sequoia Capital have bought an 18.1 per cent stake in legal process outsourcing (LPO) company UnitedLex... more

• Indian firm Khaitan & Co boosts Bangalore practice with merger

  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... more

• Ashurst forms 'best friends' relationship with Indian firm

  Jul 21 2011 International law firm firm Ashurst has entered into a “best friends” relationship with brand new firm India Law Partners (ILP), which was formed by a breakaway group... more

• Hillary Clinton presses India to open markets

  Jul 20 2011 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged India to work faster to open markets as part of the developing trade and political relationship between the US and... more

• US firm shifts paralegal work from India back to the US

  Jul 13 2011 One of the US firms that pioneered the use of legal process outsourcing to India has taken steps to divert some of the work back to the US. In 1999 a Minneapolis-based... more

• Amarchand Mangaldas takes top spot in Indian corporate law ranking

  Jul 12 2011 RSG India Law Centre’s annual survey of the top 40 Indian corporate law firms has reached its conclusion. Amarchand Mangaldas remained in first place as India’s top... more

• AZB & Partners appoint new CEO

  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... more

• AZB and Wadia Ghandy help MFI Janalakshmi raise funds from Citi Venture

  Jul 02 2011 Bangalore-based Janalakshmi Financial Services, micro finance institution (MFI) promoted by social entrepreneur Ramesh Ramanathan, has raised Rs. 65 crore ($14.4... more

• SRGR advises on India’s largest Hydroelectric Project

  Jul 02 2011 SRGR Law Offices, led by Partner Ravi Bishnoi along with Senior Associate Abhishek Awasthi and Associate Neha Madan have acted as legal counsel for Rural... more

• TPG buys 20% of AGS Transact Technologies; Khaitan, AZB advise

  Jul 02 2011 The PE arm of Texas-Pacific Group (TPG) has invested Rs. 145 crore ($32 million) in AGS Transact Technologies (AGS), provider of ATM outsourcing and systems... more

• Confusion prevails over what constitutes ‘real estate business’ under FDI Policy

  Jul 02 2011 The reluctance or inability of the Government to have a clear and comprehensive definition of ‘real estate business’ in the revised Consolidated FDI Policy that has... more

• Conversation with Prem Rajani, Managing Partner of Rajani Associates

  Jul 02 2011 Bar & Bench: Talk us through your initial years of setting up Rajani Associates. more

• Supreme Court gives a breather to Tata Motors; stays return of Singur land

  Jul 02 2011 The Supreme Court today directed the West Bengal Government to stop the distribution of land to the farmers in Singur which was acquired for Tata Motors small car... more

• IIT-Kharagpur in a technology misappropriation dispute in the US court: Orrick represents IIT

  Jul 02 2011 A case against IIT Kharagpur and its affiliate Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Training Society (TIETS) is pending in the Northern District Court of... more

• Law Ministry is bringing in legislation to stop frivolous PILs

  Jul 02 2011 To bring in an effective tool to stop filing of frivolous Public Interest Litigations (PIL), the Union Ministry of Law and Justice is giving final touches to a bill to... more

• Young lawyers training programme kicks off at NLU Delhi

  Jun 27 2011 The Union Law Ministry has launched the Rajiv Gandhi Advocates Training Programme to train young advocates practicing in Magistrate and Munsif courts. Announcing... more

• Government of India approves infrastructure funding for lower courts

  Jun 27 2011 Good news for the lower courts of India - the Government has decided to invest in adequate infrastructure to reduce the backlog of cases. The decision follows the... more

• JSA and Rajani advise on acquisition of float glass business

  Jun 23 2011 A leading manufacturer of glass in India, Saint-Gobain Glass India Limited has acquired the float glass business of Mumbai-based Sezal Glass Limited by way of slump... more

• Infocracy India Research: Most Law schools not adhering to RTI Act

  Jun 23 2011 The Government has recently constituted a Special Task Force to ensure effective implementation of the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) and to bring in more... more

• Recruitment Tracker: CNLU's first batch passes out; bulk hiring by Quislex; five takers for LLM; 2 at UCL, London and 3 at South Asian University

  Jun 23 2011 The recruitment for the first batch of Chanakya National Law University (CNLU), Patna has concluded. more

• Consumer files complaint against Apple India with CCI

  Jun 23 2011 This time iphone and ipad maker Apple has come under the scanner of Competition Commission of India (CCI) for following anti-competitive practices and allegedly... more

• Talks to bring changes in Indo-Mauritius Tax Treaty makes the market tumble

  Jun 23 2011 The speculation of resuming talks on the Indo-Mauritian Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) to alter the current tax treaty on capital gains in relation to... more

• After Week Magazine, Outlook comes out with the list of top ten law colleges: Who should we trust for College Rankings?

  Jun 23 2011 Outlook in association with research agency MRDA has come out with this year’s law school rankings (June27, 2011). more

• J. Sagar Associates leads US/India software deal

  Jun 20 2011 J. Sagar Associates has taken a leading role in the acquisition of software engineering form Rofous Software by leading software developer GlobalLogic. The deal sees... more

• AZB and Khaitan advise on $50m Indian agrochemical deal

  Jun 20 2011 AZB & Partners and Khaitan & Co have taken lead roles on the acquisition of 42.2 per cent of Mumbai-based agrochemical manufacturer Sabero Organics Gujarat Limited by... more

• Gujarat National Law University places nearly half its students

  Jun 20 2011 Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar has placed almost half its students with law firms. Just 85 of the 155 students sat for placements, and 70 students... more

• Controversy as Indian government seeks to regulate foreign trips of Judges

  Jun 20 2011 The government of India's has stirred up controversy with a move to implement guidelines for judges who go abroad for private visits. The Delhi High Court has stayed... more

• Indian diversity program provides greater access to legal education

  Jun 20 2011 A diversity project in India has achieved commendable results, placing eleven of its fifty students in top law schools across India. The IDIA project (Increasing... more

• AZB and NDR complete ComputerXPs Series A funding from Jafco Asia

  Jun 16 2011 Bangalore-based software product company ComputerXPs has raised $4 million from Tokyo-based technology-focused venture capital fund Jafco Asia in its SeriesA funding. more

• Of Indians, by Indians, for us Indians

  Jun 16 2011 “… The Mother of Parliaments (a reference to the British Parliament upon which our Indian Parliament has been set up) is like a sterile woman and a prostitute. more

• Two former Judges accuse former CJI Balakrishnan of fixing and corruption

  Jun 16 2011 Another shocking revelation of corruption in the Judiciary has been openly made by two former judges. The former Chief Justice of India and Chairman of National Human... more

• Another Ranking with no indication of methodology: Week Magazine says NLS 1, NUALS 2, NALSAR 3....NUJS 13, NLUJ 25

  Jun 16 2011 The Week Magazine owned by the Kerala based “Malayala Manorama” group has come out with a set of College rankings (June 5, 2011). more

• Recruitment Tracker: NLU Jodhpur – massive hiring by Luthra; 12 to 13 lakh pay package for freshers; only 9 opt for litigation

  Jun 16 2011 National Law University, Jodhpur (NLU-J) has concluded its placements for the graduating batch of 2011. more

• Kini advises Glodyne Technoserve on its acquisition of Comat Technologies

  Jun 14 2011 Mumbai-based technology infrastructure company Glodyne Technoserve has acquired Bangalore-based e-governance service provider Comat Technologies Limited in an all cash... more

• SNG and Desai Diwanji advise on 50:50 JV between Bharat Forge and David Brown

  Jun 14 2011 Leading Indian auto parts maker Bharat Forge (BFL) has entered into an agreement with David Brown System India (Holdings), through its wholly-owned subsidiary BF... more

• Jindal Global Law School and Cornell Law School have entered into partnership to initiate student exchange programmes and research projects

  Jun 14 2011 Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of O.P. Jindal Global University and Cornell Law School have signed an Agreement of Cooperation and a Memorandum of Understanding to... more

• Recruitment Tracker: NUJS places cent percent students; Amarchand top recruiter; Conversation with Campus Recruitment Committee Member

  Jun 14 2011 Campus Recruitment Committee (CRC) of National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata has completed their placement process. Out of a batch of 97 students,... more

• Recruitment Tracker: RMLNLU partly outsources placements to Rainmaker; Amarchand and ICICI top recruiters; two students joining for LLM abroad

  Jun 14 2011 Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (RMLNLU) had partly outsourced its placement process for this batch to Rainmaker. The placement process is still going on.... more

• Senior Advocate Shanti Bhushan claims his heart is a “Plant” - Delhi HC rejects the claim!

  Jun 14 2011 The Delhi High Court has rejected the claim of Senior Advocate Shanti Bhushan that his heart is a ‘Plant’. The Delhi High Court emotionally said “No two individuals... more

• Pangea3 opens major facility in US: Conversation with Co-Founder and Co-CEO Sanjay Kamlani

  Jun 14 2011 Pangea3, the global leader in legal process outsourcing is opening a new 400-seat facility in suburban Dallas, Texas. Pangea3 had been eying a US expansion since its... more

• Luthra wins another case for Multiplexes: CCI holds ‘Every exclusive agreement is not per se anti-competitive’

  Jun 14 2011 Luthra & Luthra Law Offices recently represented Inox Leisure Private Limited (Inox), a company which operates multiplexes across various locations in India before the... more

• SNG, Rich May, Trilegal and Menéndez advise on renewable energy partnership

  Jun 08 2011 Astonfield Renewable Resourceshas entered into a strategic partnership with Grupo T-Solar Global S.A. (T-Solar), a Spanish-based solar power producer to develop a... more

• Indian firm Advani & Co allies with NY firm Moses & Singer

  Jun 08 2011 Mumbai based law firm Advani & Co has made a 'best friends' practice agreement with New York based law firm Moses & Singer to share expertise for the benefit of... more

• ALB Law Awards: Amarchand, AZB and Talwar Thakore take top honours

  Jun 08 2011 Amarchand & Mangaldas has been chosen as the ‘Indian Deal Firm of the Year’ for 2011 at ALB SE Asia 2011 Law Awards. Amarchand & Mangaldas took the award for ‘Debt... more

• Indian offshore firm Pangea3 opens US service delivery office

  Jun 07 2011 Mumbai-headquartered Pangea3 – owned by Thompson Reuters - has opened its first US-based service delivery office in Dallas, Texas. The office will allow the company to... more

• A chat with Ranji Dua, Managing Partner of Dua Associates

  Jun 06 2011 Bar & Bench conducts an interview with Ranji Dua, Managing Partner of Indian law firm Dua Associates, discussing (among other things) the early strategy for building... more