partner hires

Former Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) London partner Sumesh Sawhney has joined Essar Group in London as its general counsel this month, according to his Linked-in profile.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) indirect tax partners MP Devnath and Vivek Sharma, and associate partner Abhishek Anand, who had joined in 2017 after leaving Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS), have joined Seetharaman & Associates, which has now rebranded to Sarvada Legal.

Argus Partners Bangalore senior partner Siddharth Raja and husband-and-wife partner duo Aditya Narayan, Megha Narayan will be setting up their own law firm.

Trilegal has confirmed its vote to admit AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Harsh Maggon into its partnership and corporate practice.

Argus Partners has hired independent litigator Maneesha Kongovi as a partner in Bangalore with her team.

Technology lawyer Ankit Relan, associate partner at technology firm Mason & Associates Advocates, which counts Google amongst its clients, has joined Facebook India in Gurgaon as lead counsel.

Trilegal counsel Padmaja Kaul, who’d been with the firm since 2012, has joined IndusLaw in Delhi as its second litigation partner in the city.

Kochhar & Co senior partner and head of its maritime practice, Gautam Bhatikar, has resigned with his team of five lawyers last month.

Kartik Maheshwari, Mumbai-based leader at Nishith Desai Associates (NDA), has resigned from the firm several month ago and will join Netflix India’s legal team soon, according to sources.

Former Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Deep Roy, whom we had reported to have resigned in March, has started up a boutique firm under the name Equilex, in the finance and sexy flavour-of-the-month insolvency space.

HSA Advocates has hired SNG & Partners principal associate Amit Charan as a partner in its Delhi office, according to the firm’s press release.

L&L Partners young corporate partner Amit Shetye is set to join New York-headquartered infrastructure investment fund giant Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) in a senior in-house legal and executive role in India, according to several sources.

Advaita Legal senior partner Atul Dua will be setting up an independent high court chambers practice, after disagreements between him and Advaita’s best friend consultancy firm KPMG.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Link Legal India Law Services projects and project finance partner Shashwat Kumar as a partner in Delhi.

HSA Advocates has hired independent practitioner Vatsal Gaur, who had started his independent two years ago after leaving Khaitan & Co and Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, as associate partner in Delhi, according to its press release.

Debt capital markets lawyer Pallavi Gopinath Aney has left Baker & McKenzie Singapore to join Allen & Overy (A&O) as a partner, Bar & Bench has reported.

Elite independent German law firm Hengeler Mueller India desk lawyer Abhijit Narayan (who had joined from J Sagar Associates (JSA) in 2012), has moved to Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe as the head of its India desk and Middle East Desk in Germany.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Khaitan & Co real estate partner Abhishek Sharma to co-head its real estate practice from Mumbai.

PDS Legal partner Tarun Gulati, who had joined in 2013 from Economic Laws Practice (ELP), has been designated senior counsel by the Allahabad high court, as part of a mammoth round of 75 new senior advocates.

Advaita Legal lawyers Subodh Sadana and Ray Sharat Prasad - who were formerly partner and associate partner respectively at Seth Dua & Associates - have joined Khaitan & Khaitan as partners.