India’s AZB & Partners has welcomed back Nandish Vyas as a senior partner in Mumbai from Veritas Legal.
Vyas has focused on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate and private equity matters for more than 15 years.
He began his legal career with AZB in 2006, and was with the firm for close to a decade.
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.