partnership promotions

DMD Advocates has promoted counsel Kuber Dewan in its dispute resolution practice to partner.

Orbit Law Services has promoted four of its partners into equity, following the retirement of co-founding partner PV Rao and a corresponding widening and redistribution of equity.

Veritas Legal has promoted Neveille Mukerji as a partner in Mumbai’s dispute resolution practice.

AZB & Partners has promoted GLC Mumbai 2010 graduate Punita Gupta to partner.

S&R Associates has elected arbitration and litigation counsel Shahezad Kazi into its partnership.

Samvād Partners has promoted Bangalore-based counsel Anisha Shroff and Siddharth Seshan to partner.

Amit Jajoo (Mumbai; commercial litigation),Avik Biswas (Bengaluru; employment law, anti-bribery and anti-corruption),Lomesh Kiran Nidumuri (Bengaluru; civl and commercial disputes),Manan Lahoty (Mumbai; capital markets),Manish Gupta (Delhi, M&A, private equity),Mayank Mishra (Delhi; disputes),Nishant Singh (Mumbai; M&A, private equity, banking & finance, corporate) andSaurav Kumar (Delhi, M&A, private equity, corporate).

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 10 to salaried partner level, as first reported Bar & Bench.

Ikigai Law has become an equity partnership, promoting its director of public policy, Nehaa Chaudhari, to equity partner, while also promoting Aparajita Srivastava to non-equity partner level.

Khaitan & Co has announced a bumper crop of promotions, elevating 16 principal associates to salaried partner level, and 8 to counsel.

ANM Global Inc has promoted Delhi-based Radhika Mathur, who had joined in July 2019 as a corporate and aviation practice associate partner from Rajinder Narain & Co, has been promoted to partner.

London-headquartered international shipping and corporate law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has promoted former Trilegal lawyer Dhruv Paul to its partnership, in a round of six promotions.

IC Universal Legal has hired ARA Law private equity and M&A partner Rowena De Sousa as a Mumbai-based partner in corporate, while also making two internal partner promotions in its corporate team - Nitesh Tiwari and Kavita Pancholi - and eight associate promotions.

Talwar Thakore & Associates has promoted counsel Deepa Christopher and Neville Golwalla to its partnership.