Trilegal counsel Rachika A Sahay has joined global oil and gas services company Weatherford as its sole legal counsel in India.
Sahay had been at Trilegal since graduating from NLIU Bhopal in 2005, followed by a Master's degree at the London School of Economics in 2007, and specialised in corporate and projects, infrastructure and energy at the firm.
Earlier this month she has now joined Weatherford International's in India as its legal head.
She said: “It was a very good opportunity and the idea would be to focus on one practice area, and I had been doing some oil and gas matters at Trilegal.”
Her role would involve negotiating oil and gas-related agreements and working with the internal compliance and other functions, as well as handling internal legal needs of the company.
Trilegal co-founding partner Akshay Jaitly commented: “Rachika was a great colleague while she was with us and very easy to work with. I’m sure she will be an excellent addition to the Weatherford team.
“We in fact advised Weatherford together a few years ago so I look forward to having the opportunity of working together again in a new context.”
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Tired-Legal??
Some of the other names are definately not fit to be partner... having seen their work, i wouldn't trust my grandmother to them..
All the best Rachika…
please guide me mam....
No offence at all to the kid's ambition, but this comment got published in this thread despite LI's review? What next, Kian, some sales pitch for boxer shorts?
Kid. She won't reply to you. Ever.
@ 9.1/Bernard Fallon and 10.1/Associate: You guys are @$$hol€$, plain and simple. You have only grown in age and acquired a degree, but have no real sense or education – why discourage a kid or make comments that have the tendency to break the heart of one? Don’t say you are showing the kid the “real world” which is full of @$$hol€$ like you two.
The people you mention have done limited work in this area at junior levels... a while back.
Naturally, for senior lawyers (especially in the domains where the firm has stalled),it makes sense to move on given that there is no meaningful career progression. This does not in any way negatively reflect on an individual's lawyering skills or the work culture of the firm - it is just a rational choice to move to a place where there is more interesting work. As far as the firm is concerned, this is healthy since it allows them to cut back their spends and continued investments in areas where they are not able to maintain a strong market position or generate returns, and to refocus resources on practices where the firm can maintain or further strengthen its market share and yields.
Over the long term, a refocus on its core strengths (banking, PE etc.) will probably help Trilegal emerge as a better and more sustainable firm. This will also ensure that it is able to reignite its partnership promotions and match the competition (which, with the exception of Luthra, appears to be in better shape on the partnership pipeline front).
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