partner hires

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.

HSA Advocates has hired GS Associates Advocates & Attorneys founder and managing partner Geeta Saha as a partner in Mumbai, specialising in banking and finance, infrastructure, projects & energy, corporate finance and real estate.

Seth Dua & Associates co-founder Atul Dua, who in 2017 became partner at Advaita Legal - the best-friend law firm of Big 4 consultancy KPMG - is set to leave the firm, we have learned from authoritative sources.

Saikrishna & Associates has hired Viacom18 Media senior vice president legal Thomas George and one team member to head it up to open up a Mumbai office, while also promoting five associate partners to partner, expanding its total partnership to 18.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Richa Roy as a partner in its Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and policy practice in Mumbai.

Three-year-old firm Vertices Partners has promoted two senior associates to associate partner and has laterally hired one associate partner, according to the firm’s press release.

DSK co-founding partner Satish Kishanchandani’s start-up is now live as Pioneer Legal in Mumbai, coming out of the gate with a partner promotion, a headcount of 20 fee-earners, 4 partners and plans for national expansion.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi disputes partner Surjendu Sankar Das is going independent to set up a Supreme Court advocate-on-record and arbitration practice.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has hired Rishabh Gupta as a retained partner in its private equity, corporate and securities practices.

Former Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Anay Banhatti, whom we had reported went independent at the Bombay bar in March, has joined DMD Advocates as a tax partner in its Mumbai office.

Amitabh Sharma, the managing partner of HSA Advocates who had joined in April 2016 from Khaitan & Co, has laid down his management duties at the firm.

Argus Partners has continued its steady hiring policy and bulked up its Mumbai corporate and private equity practice with Global Infrastructured Partners (GIP) India legal counsel Vinod Joseph.

HSA Advocates has hired Gurgaon-based Kochhar & Co corporate partner Gaurav Sahay in its Bangalore office, that had recently seen the departure of partner Sharath Chandrasekhar (along with six others) to DSK Legal.

AZB & Partners Mumbai competition counsel Rahul Rai, who we had reported in February to have resigned from AZB’s partnership to take up an of counsel position at the firm, has joined the chambers of senior advocate Gopal Subramanium in Delhi last month, we understand from several sources.

Following the en masse seven-partner poaching of a corporate-projects Delhi-Mumbai-Bangalore team from HSA Advocates, DSK Legal has now added HSA Delhi and Mumbai-based litigation partner Nand Kishore and his team of four fee-earners.

After our exclusive report on Monday that up to nine partners would bulk-move from HSA Advocates to DSK Legal, the latter has now confirmed the hiring of HSA Advocates senior partners Anjan Dasgupta and Aparajit Bhattacharya, alongside only five others, including one Bangalore partner.

HSA Advocates senior Delhi corporate partner Aparajit Bhattacharya and senior Mumbai projects partner Anjan Dasgupta have both resigned today, and are understood to be in very advanced discussions to join DSK Legal, according to several sources.