partnership promotions

Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) has promoted managing associate Rituparno Bhattacharya to its partnership, with effect from 1 April 2016.

Samvad Partners promoted senior associate Natasha Mahajan to partner in Bangalore.

Argus Partners has promoted four lawyers internally to non-equity partner level.

NLSIU Bangalore 2000 graduate Richa Naujoks was promoted to partnership at Nixon Peabody in New York City, according to a press release from the firm.

NLSIU Bangalore 2007 alumnus Aprajita Dhundia made partner at Kirkland & Ellis in London

Jones Day has promoted NLSIU Bangalore 2003 graduate Karthik Kumar to its partnership.

Crawford Bayley promoted senior associate Sumit Vadhavkar to associate partner in its real estate practice, effective from 1 October. Vadhavkar will help the firm deal with increasing mandates in the commercial leasing space.

Trilegal has promoted five to the first rung of its all-equity lockstep partnership.

Luthra & Luthra has promoted six managing associates to partner level

Rajani Singhania & Partners has promoted three principal associates to associate partner in Delhi: Abhimeet Sinha, Abhishek Kumar and Yaman Deep Kumar, according to a press release from the firm.

Sinha specialies in project finance and infrastructure, Abhishek Kumar and Yaman Deep Kumar who began their careers in 2007 with Singhania & Partners focus on litigation and arbitration.

Senior associate Sumit Gupta specialising in land acquisition and dispute resolution was promoted to principal associate.

AZB & Partners has promoted five of its lawyers to partner level after 12 months of partners leaving and joining in the Mumbai region of the firm.

Delhi and Mumbai firm DMD Advocates has promoted principal associate Tushar Jarwal to partnership on 28 August in the tax group of the firm.

DSK Legal managers Hemang Parekh, Pragya Dhamija and Chandrima Mitra have been promoted to associate partner while no full partners were made this year, reported Bar & Bench.

Parekh and Dhamija specialise in corporate, while Mitra focuses on media and entertainment.

Mumbai private equity boutique ARA Law has promoted two principal associates, Rowena De Sousa and Avik Karmakar, to salaried partner level.

Senior associates Nanditha Gopal and Percis Anklesaria will be promoted to partner.

Two GLC Mumbai-graduate lawyers who started their careers at Little & Co have become partners there, reported Bar & Bench.

With Ruchi Khatlawala and Roshnek Dalla, the partnership of the Bombay solicitors firm is now 12 partners strong with Dara P Mehta, Farrokh J Sidhwa, Jayendra P Kapadia, Ajay M Khatlawala, Zubin Morris, Guruprasad Pal, Rajani B Divkar and Rajas Kasbekar, according to the website, with Shreyas Patel and Damodar Desai promoted last year.

S&R Associates has elected two corporate associates, Jabarati Chandra and Rachael Israel, to its partnership.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) has now officially promoted 15 to partner.

Verus Advocates has promoted disputes partner Charles De Souza to its partnership, as one of its senior partners Jay Parikh has left the firm.