India’s AZB & Partners has hired antitrust expert Ram Kumar Poornachandran as a partner in Delhi from Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA).
Poornachandran, who focuses on competition and corporate law, spent more than a decade at TTA. Prior to that, he was at Fox Mandal and Bird & Bird ATMD.
With Poornachandran joining AZB, the firm now has 61 partners in Delhi.
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Tax lawyer Shruti KP has left the partnership at IndusLaw to join AZB & Partners in Mumbai.
Indian law firms AZB & Partners and Khaitan & Co have advised energy company Sterlite Power and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has represented Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC on the creation of their joint venture to build a power transmission platform in India.
Indian law firm AZB & Partners has made its first partner hires of the year with Vikram Shroff, former head of the employment and labour practice at Nishith Desai Associates, joining in Mumbai, and disputes partner Mrinal Shankar joining from Poovayya & Co in Bengaluru.