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JSA adds 2 equity partners, swells salaried partner ranks by 18 post Jyoti exit [UPDATE]

Sudarsan
Sudarsan

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted Vishnu Sudarsan and Varghese Thomas to its quasi-equity partner ranks, alongside 16 promotions to salaried partner level.

Sudarsan, specialising in corporate and projects, has become equity partner elect in Gurgaon, while Thomas, who specialises in corporate and banking, was promoted to equity partner elect in Mumbai, growing the size of JSA’s equity and quasi-equity partnership to around 23 after the official retirement of the firm’s founder Jyoti Sagar yesterday.

Equity partners elect enjoy the same privileges as equity partners but can not accede to the equity partnership deed due to the 1956 Companies Act 20-partner limit on partnerships.

Thomas
Thomas

A total of 18 lawyers were also promoted to retained partner level, of whom there are now around 46 at the firm after two dispute resolution promotions in October.

Seven of the new retained partners, or 39 per cent, are women.

In Mumbai

  • Kavita Agarwal (asset finance, corporate & projects),
    Agarwal
    Agarwal
    Bhumgara
    Bhumgara
  • Jamshed Bhumgara (corporate commercial),
  • Kaushik Mukherjee,
  • Rajesh Pal, and
  • Mithun Thanks (corporate, commercial & regulatory),

were elevated to the salaried partnership (Agarwal, Bhumgara pictured right).

In Gurgaon

  • Nitesh Bhasin (corporate & capital markets),
  • Minu Dwivedi (corporate & commercial),
  • Akshay Nagpal (corporate commercial & projects), and
  • Pallavi Puri (corporate & commercial)

were promoted (pictured below).

Puri
Puri
Bhasin
Bhasin
Dwivedi
Dwivedi
Nagpal
Nagpal

In Delhi

  • Jyotika Khilnani Guha (corporate & projects),
  • Nitin Kala (regulatory & policy),
  • Mayank Mishra (disputes & capital markets),
  • Apoorva Misra (regulatory & policy), and
  • Poonam Verma (regulatory, disputes & projects)

were given the nod (pictured below).

Khilnani Guha
Khilnani Guha
Verma
Verma
Misra
Misra
Mishra
Mishra
Kala
Kala

Bangalore

The Bangalore office saw the elevation to retained partner of Arjun Perikal (corporate, regulatory & disputes) and Malini Raju (corporate, commercial & banking), confirmed a JSA spokesperson, as first reported by legal website Bar & Bench today.

Update 3 April: Two more senior associates, corporate and information technology (IT) lawyer Probir Roy Chowdhury and corporate and infrastructure lawyer Seema Sukumar, have been promoted in Bangalore to retained partner level, confirmed a JSA spokesperson. 

The firm has around 260 lawyers working for it.

Raju
Raju
Perikal
Perikal

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