Indian firm Luthra and Luthra Law Offices has announced that it has merged with 33-lawyer outfit Atlas Law Partners with the latter’s managing partner, Harminder (Harry) Chawla, becoming managing partner of the combination.

Chawla, who succeeds the recently deceased Rajiv K Luthra, returns to the firm where he spent more than four years in the 1990s, leaving as a partner in 2000. Before co-founding Atlas in 2016, he was a partner at Kochhar & Co and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as a partner and was managing partner of Atlas since its establishment in 2016.

Joining him as part of the merger are litigation partner Ritu Bhalla, who joined Atlas from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas last year, and corporate partner Niti Paul, who was also previously a partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Kochhar & Co.

Following the addition of the Atlas team, Luthra now has 62 partners, and also gets a new office in Gurugram.