Wadia Ghandy Mumbai partner and litigator Kingshuk Banerjee is set to join Khaitan & Co as partner, as part of a larger plan at the firm to scale up its disputes practice.
Banerjee is a 2009 GLC Mumbai graduate with a 2011 Bombay solicitors’ qualification.
He had been at Wadia Ghandy since 2007, and has a team of four associates working with him full-time.
Khaitan executive director Amar Sinhji confirmed his joining “shortly”, and said: “His induction is part of a larger plan to scale up the practice in Mumbai. He brings with him a wealth of experience that fits in perfectly with our expansion plans.”
Banerjee has declined to comment.
Sinhji added: “The firm has always followed a model of steady organic growth. This has ensured that the growth does not in any way dilute our core values centred around fairness, integrity & diligence, as also the camaraderie and mutual respect amongst us, that we value & nurture.”
We have reached out to Wadia Ghandy for comment.
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While ofcourse Kingshuk has a reputation of being a good guy, but time will tell how all this works out in the larger scheme of things at the firm.
All the best Kingshuk!
Kudos to talented lawyers like Kingshuk and Tomu!
Operative word in my comment was "genuinely promoting"
As far as total billing in Lit is concerned. Even SAM and Trilegal in Mumbai do better than homegrown Mumbai oldies like Kanga, Solomon & Co, Little & Co., Crawford Bayley., PDS Legal. The latter.may have.more number of matters filed but not billing value. Other Mumbai oldies like Rustamji Ginwala, Federal & Rashmikant, Udwadia Udeshi, Negandhi Shah Himayatullah are virtually fading away and unknown outside certain old money circles.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone.
This news is a pleasant surprise and consistent evidence of an exodus which began a few years back. From being a firm sought after by the best graduates to a firm with continuously degrading reputation, the reasons are many. Having worked as an Articled Clerk and Associate at Wadia Ghandy in its Golden Period, I will try to summarise a few.
I remember there were about 300 applicants for the articleship programme in my year alone and 10-15 of ones were the chosen ones. Little did we know that a few years later, WG is going to be a force (not) to be reckoned with.
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