Khaitan & Co has promoted 20 lawyers to partner, as first reported by Bar & Bench.
12 were promoted from associate partner to equity partner; 8 got the nod from principal associate to associate partner.
A total of eight principal associates – seven in Mumbai and one in Delhi - have been promoted to associate or salary partner level.
Delhi saw a bumper crop of seven equity partners who rose into the equity partner ranks, while Mumbai and Kolkata both welcomed two new partners into Khaitan’s equity.
In Bangalore, one associate partner was promoted into equity.
Four were promoted to the counsel designation in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata.
Practice split: Corporate core, litigation sees big push
According to the firm’s press release, nine partnership promotions were in corporate.
Notably, considering Khaitan’s traditional focus on non-contentious work outside Kolkata, a massive number of six promotions were made in the dispute resolution teams across offices, with four of those having become equity partners.
Both of Kolkata’s promotions were in the litigation team from associate partner to equity partner.
Two each were promoted in the securities and capital markets team, and in the infrastructure practice.
Law schools alumni break-up
Law school | Equity Partners | Associate Partners | Total |
ILS Pune | 2 | 1 | 3 |
GLC Mumbai | | 3 | 3 |
NLSIU Bangalore | 2 | | 2 |
Delhi University | 2 | | 2 |
University of Calcutta | 2 | | 2 |
NLIU Bhopal | 1 | | 1 |
Nalsar Hyderabad | 1 | | 1 |
Symbiosis Pune | | 1 | 1 |
NUJS Kolkata | 1 | | 1 |
ULC Bangalore | 1 | | 1 |
NLU Jodhpur | | 1 | 1 |
DDU University Gorakhpur | | 1 | 1 |
Promos at a glance (via Khaitan & Co)
Mumbai associate partners:
- Aditya Cherian (AP)
- Moin Ladha (AP)
- Pooja Patel (AP)
- Peshwan Jahangir (AP)
- Sameer Sah (AP)
- Shivanshu Thapliyal (AP)
- Vinita Krishnan (AP)
Delhi associate partner
- Atul Pandey (AP)
Mumbai new equity partners
- Kartik Maheshwari
- Mehul Shah
Delhi new equity partners
- Ashwin Bishnoi
- Dibyanshu
- Diwakar Maheshwari
- Gaurav Juneja
- GT Thomas Phillippe
- Prasenjit Chakravarti
- Prateek Kumar
Kolkata new equity partners
- Nandini Khaitan
- Ratnesh Rai
Bangalore new equity partner
- Sharad Moudgal
New counsel
- Shailendra Bhandare (Mumbai)
- Smriti Yadav (Mumbai)
- Shilpi Jain (Delhi)
- Trivikram Khaitan (Kolkata)
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8 were PA and now AP.
Aditya Cherian, Moin Ladha, Pooja Patel, Peshwan Jehangir, Sameer Sah, Shivanshu Thaplyal and Vinita Krishnan have been made APs. Rest of the 12, all EPs.
Equity Partners: 2 Bombay, 7 Delhi, 1 Bangalore and 2 Calcutta
Associate Partners: 7 Mumbai, 1 Delhi
Counsels (parallel track to partnership): 2 Bombay, 1 Delhi and 1 Calcutta
Aditya Cherian (AP)
Moin Ladha (AP)
Pooja Patel(AP)
Peshwan Jahangir (AP)
Sameer Sah (AP)
Shivanshu Thapliyal (AP)
Vinita Krishnan (AP)
Kartik Maheshwari (EP)
Mehul Shah (EP)
Delhi
Atul Pandey (AP)
Ashwin Bishnoi (EP)
Dibyanshu (EP)
Diwakar Maheshwari (EP)
Gaurav Juneja (EP)
GT Thomas Phillippe (EP)
Prasenjit Chakravarti (EP)
Prateek Kumar (EP)
Kolkata
Nandini Khaitan (EP)
Ratnesh Rai (EP)
Bangalore
Sharad Moudgal (EP)
It's just a retention strategy now. Promote everyone who has been there for X years to partnership and pay them some bullshit SA/PA salary with not much more incremental control/management over the firm.
Quality and the creation of something to aspire for in the associates be damned.
Khaitan A.P.- Around 60
Trilegal- Dont know but assuming above 60
Luthra-50-65 depending on the practice area.
LKS- Jt. Partner 40+
All of them?
Well LKS,Khaitan I can confirm. Of course star partners make more than that. Any inputs?
These names might be in the SAM and CAM poaching list.
Heard that there has been bumper promotions at all levels. Especially promotions in the Dispute Resolution team.
Peshwan Jehangir has to wait for too long but finally got his due.
Hope the management had taken this decision two three years ago since many good dispute resolution members had too quit due to non transparency in promotions.
Any way that is always the case.
Good luck
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