Davis Polk and Wardwell capital markets counsel Ferish Patel joined Gunderson Dettmer as partner in November, to head its India and Southeast Asia practice.

Patel worked at AZB & Partners and at Amarchand Mangaldas, in 2009, as a secondee from Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett which he had joined as an associate in 2003. He joined Davis Polk in August 2011, leaving Simpson Thatcher.

Patel declined to comment at the time of going to press.