partnership promotions
Delhi-based IP boutique LexOrbis has promoted Deepak Sriniwas, Rajeev Kumar, Amaya Singh and Pooja Dodd to salaried partner.
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Dua Associates has promoted three to equity partner and one to non-equity partner, reported Bar & Bench citing "reliable sources".
Dinesh Mathur and Vikram Dholakia were promoted in the litigation practice in Delhi, while Srinivas BR got the nod in Bangalore's corporate practice. Senior associate Jay Badola was lifted into non-equity partnership, according to the website. [Bar & Bench]
Legally India had reported that Mathur was hired as an equity partner by Dua in 2010, citing managing partner Ranji Dua, in the aftermath of a the massive Tatva Legal breakaway from the firm.
SNG & Partners has promoted senior associate Rahul Sud to associate partner, reported Bar & Bench. Sud, who specialises in corporate, finance and technology law, had joined SNG in 2009 after a Master's from NUS Singapore and an undergraduate from Symbiosis Pune. [Bar & Bench]
Wadia Ghandy has promoted eight of its lawyers in Mumbai to partnership, including one 2008 NLIU Bhopal graduate and a 2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate.
Aditi Mathur has been promoted to the partnership of Singaporean firm Shook Lin & Bok.
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) elevated two Mumbai partners – Sanjay Notani in the firm’s international trade and customs practice and Darshan Upadhyay in the firm’s corporate commercial wing – into equity. The firm also made up eight new associate partners, five senior associates and nine associate managers.
AZB & Partners has promoted Bhavi Sanghvi to partner in Mumbai.
Trilegal has hired Deloitte counsel Himanshu S Sinha as a partner in its direct tax practice in Delhi and promoted infrastructure counsel Neeraj Menon to its partnership.
Khaitan & Co has promoted two Mumbai salaried partners - Adheesh Nargolkar and Raj Panchmatia - to equity partnership, and 11 principal associates to salaried partner.
J Sagar Associates (JSA) has today promoted nine of its lawyers to its salaried partnership across Delhi, Gurgaon and Mumbai.
HSA Advocates has promoted Pranav Singh and Harsh Arora to its partnership, while Sumedha Dutta and Arun Mani were elevated to asociate partner level [Bar & Bench]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has promoted India-England-New-York qualified counsel Amit Singh to partnership in the Hong Kong capital markets practice.
Samvad Partners has promoted senior associates Nivedita Nivargi and Neela Badami to its partnership in Bangalore, increasing the size of the firm to seven partners.
Universal Legal made up three new partners in its Bangalore and Chennai offices.
Luthra & Luthra has promoted two lawyers – Vaibhav Kakkar and Kanchan Sinha - to partnership in an “exceptional” promotion round.
MV Kini partner Shrikant Kamath, who joined in 2012 to start its tax practice, left last week but is replaced by principal associate Prateush Sharma.
NLSIU Bangalore, Delhi University (DU), GLC Mumbai and ILS Pune have given India’s biggest law firms more than three times as many partners than most other younger law schools since 2009.