Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has hired 2005-ILS Pune graduate Parveet Singh Gandoak to the firm as a counsel in Singapore from Debevoise & Plimpton, where he had worked between 2011 and 2016 as an associate.

Gandoak began his career at Radio Mirchi from 2002 to 2004 as a radio jockey, then completed an LLM at Cornell Law School in 2006 and joined US law firm Dechert in New York, from where he joined Debevoise in 2011.

While at Debevoise, he had also been seconded to Khaitan & Co in 2014 for six months.

Gandoak is based in Singapore and “represents private equity sponsors and multinational corporations in a range of corporate transactions, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, minority and control investments, secondary transactions and capital market offerings”, according to Skaddens.

His regional focuses are India, China and Southeast Asia.

He is qualified as a lawyer in New York, India and Hong Kong.