AZB & Partners has made a massive promotion round of 15 to its partnership, with effect from today.

This is a larger single round that previous AZB promotions, in-part because the Mumbai-region and Delhi partnerships have jointly announced their promotions this time.

Six out of the 15 new partners - 40% - are women, of whom three are based in the Mumbai-management region of the firm that includes Pune.

The largest number of new partners - three - are graduates from Symbiosis Law School Pune, with two partners each coming from NLU Jodhpur, NUJS Kolkata and GNLU Gandhinagar.

These promotions push AZB & Partners above the symbolic 100 partner barrier, with a total of 106 partners and over 430 fee-earners. 39 of its partners are women.

Mumbai

In Mumbai, the firm has promoted five of its lawyers to partner:

• Atreya Bhattacharya (NLU Jodhpur, 2008, dual qualified in India and England & Wales)
• Shivani Kabra (Warwick University, 2007, dual qualified India & England)
• Medha Marathe (NUJS Kolkata, 2011)
• Dhirajkumar Totala (litigation; Dayanand Law College, 2006; LLM University of Pune 2008)
• Vivaik Sharma (funds; NLU Jodhpur, 2009)

Delhi

In Delhi, the firm promoted nine new partners:

• Bharat Apte (Symbiosis Law School Pune, 2009)
• Swati Chauhan (GNLU Gandhinagar 2010)
• Hemangini Dadwal (competition; GNLU Gandhinagar 2010)
• Anant Dang (Symbiosis Law School Pune, 2010)
• Aditi Gopalakrishnan (competition; CLC Delhi, 2010; LLM NYU 2011)
• Siddharth Khanna (Vivekananda Law School, 2008; University College London LLM, 2010)
• Ambarish Mohanty (NUJS Kolkata 2006; Northwestern University, Chicago, LLM, 2012)
• Ashish Pareek (Nalsar Hyderabad 2010)
• Ankit Tandon (ILS Pune 2010)

One was promoted to partner in Pune:

• Richa Choudhary (capital markets; Symbiosis Law School 2008)

Furthermore, Abhyudai Singh, a Symbiosis Law School 2006 alumnus) was promoted to counsel in Delhi.