J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted senior associates Mary Julie John in Bangalore corporate, commercial and real estate; Arpita Garg in Gurgaon’s banking, finance and corporate commercial; Vishal Anand in Delhi’s regulatory and corporate commercial; and Kannan Rahul in Mumbai’s banking and finance team to retained partner level, JSA Mumbai partner Berjis Desai told Bar & Bench.

The promotion would increase JSA’s partnership to 82, including 33 equity partners.

Providing the number of fee-earners has not changed dramatically since Legally India’s analysis in Mint of top law firms’ gearing ratios earlier this month, this would give JSA a leverage of only 2.6 fee-earners per partner - the lowest amongst the biggest firms - though the leverage of equity partners to fee-earners remains at 8.