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Khaitan & Co promotes 37 lawyers up a rung to senior & principal from around 4- to 6-year mark

Khaitan's ladder: Starts at 4
Khaitan's ladder: Starts at 4

Khaitan & Co has promoted 10 lawyers to principal associate level and 27 to senior associate, in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.

Six in Mumbai and four in Delhi were promoted to the principal associate level in Mumbai, which requires minimum post-qualification experience (PQE) of six years but is not automatic.

Progression to the principal associate rank is decided by the firm’s executive committee, assisted by human resources (HR), and takes into account legal acumen, as well as factors such as how much the associate has helped on business development, writing articles and training, internships and recruitment, and others.

A total of 27 were lifted into the senior associate designation, which is understood to generally be awarded around the four-year PQE mark, although some star performers might do it earlier.

No associates were promoted in Bangalore this year.

A total of 14 senior associates were designated in Mumbai, nine in Delhi and four in Kolkata.

Photo by Pavel P

Delhi principal associates

  • Karun Mehta
  • Nitin Mishra
  • Atul Pandey
  • Shilpi Jain

Mumbai principal associates

  • Sameer Sah
  • Moin Ladha
  • Vaibhav Mittal
  • Ritu Shaktawat
  • Shailendra Bhandare
  • Smriti Yadav

Mumbai senior associate

  • Abhiraj Krishna
  • Akshay Bhargav
  • Umang Mehta
  • Vivek Sriram
  • Ashraya Rao
  • Varun Jetly
  • Rajeev Vidhani
  • Anshuman Sakle
  • Vivaik Sharma
  • Nikhil Ranjan
  • Harsh Parikh
  • Ashish Mehta
  • Alok Sonker
  • Meghna Rajadhyaksha

Delhi senior associates

  • Sagardeep Rathi
  • Joydeep Sarkar
  • Tanvi Kumar
  • Pashupati Nath
  • Sahil Narang
  • Ranjitha Ramachandran
  • Saman Ahsan
  • Ayush  Mehrotra
  • Sarvesh Kumar Saluja

Kolkata senior associates

  • Shounak Mitra
  • Kaushik Chakravortty
  • Asim Choudhury
  • Samik Chakraborty

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