HSA Advocates senior Delhi corporate partner Aparajit Bhattacharya and senior Mumbai projects partner Anjan Dasgupta have both resigned today, and are understood to be in very advanced discussions to join DSK Legal, according to several sources.
Both are understood to be leaving with their teams, which could include up to seven other partners making up to a total of 27 fee-earners, according to our sources.
It is understood that an HSA Bangalore partner may also be moving as part of the deal.
Bhattacharya specialises in corporate, M&A and private equity, having acted for clients Eternis Fine Chemicals and Hero Electric Vehicles in transactions last year.
Dasgupta is an infrastructrure and energy projects transactional lawyer.
Bhattacharya, a Symbiosis Pune graduate, had begun his career in 2002 at Hindustan Unilever in-house, after articles at Crawford Bayley. In 2003 he had joined Trilegal, moving to HSA in 2004.
Dasgupta, also a Symbi grad, from 2002, had also effectively begun his career at Trilegal (from 2002 to 2004). He has been at HSA for not quite as long as Bhattacharya, but also for a good while: he had joined in 2011 after having been a senior associate at Herbert Smith Freehills in London, where he had worked for four years. Between 2005 and 2007 he had worked at Norton Rose Fulbright in Toronto after an LLM at the University of Toronto.
We have reached out to HSA, DSK, Bhattacharya and Dasgupta for comment.
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While this is a blow, the show must go on. However if this is how things are continued to be run, curtains for sho.
And so he spoke.. and so he spoke that lord of Castamere.. but now the rains weep over his hall with not a soul to hear..
HSA will pull through this stall.
Btw, Harsh & Akshay have backed out from the Gang.... 3 cheers to HS for managing that...
Joke on the Name Partner. BoooYaah
HSA will survive.
DSK is getting a bunch of mercenaries.
However, Aparajit worked at HSA for 15 years, and Anjan for 10 years - how are they mercenaries? Please enlighten?
All the DRAMA in one single screen.
Nuff material and gossip on this organization to make a soap opera. No shortage of content.
Is THE BIG MAN travelling to the UK again???? :P
4 Senior Equity Partners left HSA in less than 2 months time now. Just when HSA-Mumbai was trying to heal from the exit of Mr. Faizullabhoy and Mr. Jajoo, here comes another BIG BIG BLOW.
This is definitely the BIGGEST COUP in recent times. Sorry to say, but HSA 2.0 has COLLAPSED.
AMS, Nand and Bharat the lone soldiers until they too retreat.
Time for the [Slick] talking Name Partner to take this as a lesson and treat people with respect and realize that an organization draws character from the way it treats its resources. If you treat them as paid servants without remunerating them adequately, making false promises, killing their confidence on non issues, all you do is build a [Reputation]. Oh ! I forgot 'Mis*' on the way.
Sorry to say but HSA have brought this on them. [...]
time to get out of dream BOSS....start showing some respect and stop talking through your commanders..get to know you workforce ... go to them once without your ego and they will approach you even before problems would start moving...
work force is an asset...... not a liability
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