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Nabarro mulls China, India, UAE launches
Nabarro is set to redraw its international strategy in a shake-up of its traditional UK focus.
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CC promotes support staff from India to associate
Clifford Chance has taken the unprecedented step of hiring two lawyers from its Indian legal support centre as associates in the LLP.
Clifford Chance heads for Indian High Court showdown
The Supreme Court of India has requested Clifford Chance to provide details of its India-billings of more than a decade ago in its long-running dispute against the Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax (DCIT).
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Khaitan and Bharucha lead on Blackstone Group’s India rail acquisition
Indian firms Khaitan & Co and Bharucha & Partners have advised on The Blackstone Group’s acquisition of a Rs3bn (£40m) stake in logistics company Gateway Rail Freight.
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Two Linklaters partners defect to Indian best friend Talwar Thakore
Two partners from Linklaters have resigned to join its Indian best friend firm Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) as equity partners.
Focus: Stuart Popham, Passage to India
Clifford Chance’s ambition of having a top Indian practice received a jump-start with its AZB deal, leaving senior partner Stuart Popham relaxed about waiting for liberalisation. Kian Ganz reports
The Indian summer
Selling legal outsourcing to clients is easy. Selling it to your own staff is a different matter.
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Clifford Chance offers training courses to Indian best friend AZB
Clifford Chance’s Indian best friend AZB & Partners is sending four associates for training at the magic circle firm’s European training centre.
A passage to India
It takes a little bit of imagination to picture Slaughter and May’s highly paid partners working alongside a legal outsourcing unit in India.
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CC outsources 300 deals to Indian service centre
Clifford Chance passed 12,000 hours of work to its Indian service centre in the last financial year, the equivalent level that would be done by seven London associates at 100 per cent utilisation.
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Local firms have the pick of the bunch as Western recruiters shun Indian students
Indian firms have had the campus field almost to themselves this year, as international firms have considerably decreased their recruitment of Indian law students.
Travers’ chief-to-be takes Indian sabbatical
Travers Smith’s incoming managing partner Andrew Lilley, who takes over from Chris Carroll in January, will take a five-week break during October and November to work at Ashray Akrutia, a school for the deaf in India. Adopt A Business, a UK company that organises sabbaticals for professionals, arranged the sabbatical for Lilley, who will apply […]