Khaitan & Co has promoted 42 of its fee-earners to principal associate (PA), and 65 to senior associate (SA), in a round that was heavily dominated by corporate throughout all four cities, according the full list we have obtained.
Across the firm, the corporate practice area made up 44 of the promotions.
Mumbai was the office with the largest number of associate promos, with a total of 56 promotions (including 24 new PAs and 32 SAs).
Delhi was next, with a total of 33, followed by 10 promotions in Khaitan’s traditional old-school home of Kolkata, and 8 in Bangalore.
Bangalore’s promotions were completely dominated by corporate, which accounted for 7 out of the 8 promotions (the one remaining promotion was in the disputes team). This no doubts reflect the office’s home to such as tech clients as Flipkart (now Walmart) and Ola.
Kolkata, on the other hand, was dominated by disputes, which made up 7 out of 10 promotions.
Mumbai too lived up as its reputation as the firm’s corporate powerhouse, with 25 associate promotions in corporate and funds, compared to only 9 in disputes. Banking, tax and IP were the next-largest practice areas in Mumbai, each with between 6 and 4 job title elevations respectively. Energy and infrastructure, capital markets and competition also saw a smaller number of promotions (see full details below).
Last but not least, living up as the country’s litigation capital, promotions were nearly split evenly between corporate (12) and disputes (9), with a variety of other practice areas (most notably, competition, TMT and real estate had more promotions in Delhi than Mumbai, with 2 each).
Khaitan had also announced 11 promotions to partnership last week.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas had promoted a total of 21 new principal associates and 36 senior associates (totalling to 61), as we had reported yesterday.
8 promotions in Bangalore
- 3 new principal associates; 5 senior associates
- 7 promotions in corporate, 1 in disputes
- Hardik Bhatia - Principal Associate - Corporate
- KA Alakiri - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Prashanth Ramdas - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Aniruddha Basu - Senior Associate - Corporate
- BN Vivek - Senior Associate - - Corporate
- Kamlesh Rao - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Mrudul Dadhich - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Avinash Balakrishna - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
10 promotions in Kolkata
- 4 new PAs, 6 new SAs
- 7 in disputes, 2 in corporate, 1 in banking finance
- Nikita Choudhury - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Prithwijit Ganqopadhyay - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Sachin Shukla - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- VVV Sastry - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Pratik Shanu - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Risa Das - Senior Associate - Banking S, Finance
- Shreya Singh - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Sumantra Bose - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Vaibhavi PandeY - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Zulfiqar Ali Alquaderi - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
56 promotions in Mumbai
- 24 new PAs, 32 new SAs
- 23 in corporate, 9 in disputes, 6 in banking, 5 in tax, 4 in IP, 3 in energy & infra, 3 in capital markets, 2 in funds, 1 in competition
- Aastha Khurana - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Aayush Mohata - Principal Associate - Capital Markets
- Aditi Bagri - Principal Associate - Banking & Finance
- Aishwarya Nagpal - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Gaurita Udiyawar - Principal Associate - Funds
- Jaideep Singh Khattar - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Janaksinh Jhala - Principal Associate - Intellectual Property
- Jhinook Roy - Principal Associate - Energy Infrastructure & Resources
- Jimmy Bhatt - Principal Associate - Direct Tax
- Kapish Mandhyan - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Kathleen Lobo - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Krishnendu Sen - Principal Associate - Banking & Finance
- Mayank Jain - Principal Associate - Indirect Tax
- Navodita Gupta - Principal Associate - Capital Markets
- Niharika Mepani - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Nikhil Ranjan - Principal Associate - IP
- Oishik Bagchi - Principal Associate - Capital Markets
- Pavi Jain - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Rajeevkumar Nambiar - Principal Associate - Intellectual Property
- Ritwik Kulkarni - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Rolwine Alva - Principal Associate - Banking & Finance
- Sanket Shah - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Vinita Choudhury - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Vivek Mishra - Principal Associate - Banking & Finance
- Abhimanyu Pal - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Abir Sarkar - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Anjali Krishnan - Senior Associate - Indirect Tax
- Ayush Nanda - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Bidya Mohanty - Senior Associate - Corporate
- C Nageshwaran - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- D Preethika - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Devangshu Nath - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Gautam Suseel - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Haabil Vahanvaty - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Harsh Khemka - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Harshita Khurana - Senior Associate - Energy, Infrastructure & Resources
- Jessica Gandhi - Senior Associate - Banking & Finance
- Kevin Shah - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Krutika Chitre - Senior Associate - Direct Tax
- Mazahir Bootwala - Senior Associate - Banking & Finance
- Mohit Maheshwari - Senior Associate - Funds
- Rahul Mishra - Senior Associate - Energy, Infrastructure & Resources
- Rohan Shrivastava - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Shashank Patil - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Shobhana Narayan - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Sneh Shah - Senior Associate - Direct Tax
- Soham Banerjee - Senior Associate - Competition
- Sourav Dan - Senior Associate - intellectual Property
- Srikanth Mantravadi - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Suditi Surana - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Tanish Gupta - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Varun Narayan - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Yash Chokshi - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Yashashree Mahajan - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Yashashree Munde - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Zacarias Joseph - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
33 promotions in New Delhi
- 11 new PAs, 27 new SAs
- 12 in corporate, 9 in disputes, 3 in energy & infra, 2 in competition, 2 in TMT, 2 in real estate, 2 in IP, 1 in cap markets
- Aakash Bajaj - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Anupinder Singh Jassal - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Devesh Pandey - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Kshitij Bishnoi - Principal Associate - Real Estate
- Meherunnisa Anand - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Nitish Goel - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Prabal Mehrotra - Principal Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Prateek Bhandari - Principal Associate - Energy, Infrastructure & Resources
- Punit Bhuwania - Principal Associate - Real Estate
- Sanchit Agarwal - Principal Associate - Corporate
- Shobhit Chandra - Principal Associate - TMT
- Akhil Sharma - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Akshay Kumar Sharma - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Ankur Saxena - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Arjun Bhagi - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Hirak Mukhopadhyay - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Sathvik Ponnappa - Senior Associate - Capital Markets
- Nikita Bhuwania - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Piyush Ranjan - Senior Associate - TMT
- Pragya Mishra - Senior Associate - intellectual Property
- Pratiksha Mishra - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Radhika Seth - Senior Associate - Competition
- Raveena Rai - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Sagar BM - Senior Associate - Energy, Infrastructure & Resources
- Saransh Kumar - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Saransh Shaw - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Shikha Rastogi - Senior Associate - Energy, Infrastructure & Resources
- Shreya Gulati - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Siddharth Marwah - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Sucheta Roy - Senior Associate - intellectual Property
- Susanah Naushad - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution
- Sushmita Sarin - Senior Associate - Corporate
- Swati Bala - Senior Associate - Competition
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Somewhere around the 70-80 lakh figure?
1 good policy which I heard about Khaitan is that salaries are more or less the same in different departments. some firms pay their disputes team far less than their corporate team!
P.S. Not working for KCO (working at a friendly tier 1 firm though) but thankfully I don't get messages from my partner saying "...each and every one of you has to work during the leave, no matter which part of the world you are in..."
You do need that luck buddy.
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