Trilegal has promoted five to the first rung of its all-equitylockstep partnership.

The new equity partners are Upasana Rao (Delhi), Aniruddha Sen (Mumbai) and Rohan Ghosh Roy (Mumbai) in corporate, Atul Gupta (Bangalore) in the employment practice and Samsuddha Majumdar (Delhi) in tax.

The new inductions increase the firm’s partnership to 32. The firm recently hired Faraz Alam Sagar, as first reported by Legally India on 1 October.

Trilegal has a 13-yearlockstep, in which partners begin at the bottom and rise in equity stakes year-by-year until they reach the plateau, or maximum profit share, after 13 years.

Update 16:56: Trilegal partner Anand Prasad said in a press release: “We are excited to welcome nine new Partners into Trilegal in less than six months. Notably, seven have been selected from within the firm due to their expertise and excellent track record in advising and servicing our clients in complex matters.

“Our expansion reiterates our commitment to India’s growing and exciting legal services industry and our focus remains strongly on enabling our clients to win in the market place.”

The firm has had senior Shardul Amarchand Delhi partner Ravindra Bandhakavi in April, and promoted two internally in March.

Long-time Trilegal partner Amit Tambe went on an indefinite sabbatical in the same period.

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