partnership promotions
Phoenix Legal has promoted Mumbai-and-Chennai-based corporate principal associate Sriram Ramachandran to its partnership, with effect from 1 November.
Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS) promoted banking and finance associate partner Anurag Dwivedi to partner.
Prem Mohan, who had graduated in 2007 from NLSIU Bangalore, has been promoted to partner in Kirkland & Ellis London office in the financial services regulatory practice.
AZB & Partners Mumbai has promoted Harsh Maggon and Sugandha Asthana to its partnership, according to a press release.
Argus Partners promoted Siladitya Chatterjee as a partner in its corporate practice in Delhi, effective 1 September 2016.
DMD Advocates, the firm formerly known as Dutt Menon Dunmorrsett, has just promoted 2005 Delhi University graudate Anish Kapur to its partnership.
Luthra & Luthra has come out as possibly the first Indian law firm to publicly announce the names of its new partners, partner designates, managing associates and senior associates (57 names, all in all).
AZB & Partners has promoted five to partner in Delhi.
Luthra & Luthra has promoted 6 to its partnership, and eight to partner designate level.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 16 to its partnership, and internally announced the promotion of ex-Cognizant Anand Bhushan that was first reported by us on 4 July.
Veritas Legal, the firm started by ex-AZB & Partners senior partner Abhijit Joshi in 2014, has made its first two internal promotions, according to a press release from the firm.
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) promoted three partners to executive partner and four joint partners to partner, reported Bar & Bench.
S&R Associates has promoted three to partner.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted three to partner, and two to partner designate, with effect from 5 June, according to its press release.
NUJS Kolkata, GLC Mumbai and Symbiosis Pune trumped NLSIU Bangalore which was formerly Indian law firms’ favourite law school from which to internally promote partners.
Kanth & Associates promoted Symbiosis 2005 alumnus Rajeev Yadav from principal associate to partner in its litigation practice.
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has promoted eight of its associate partners to partner level, following two weeks after promoting two Pune lawyers to associate partner level.
Dua Associates merged with Thakore Jariwala & Associates in Mumbai and SAK & Associates in Chandigarh, bringing three new equity partners into the Dua partnership, according to Bar & Bench.
The firm also added three lawyers from the two cities as salaried partners, promoted five of its managers to partners in Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai, and re-absorbed one former lawyer as partner in Delhi thus making nine new salaried partners in all.
Mumbai
Thakore Jariwala’s founding partners Hetal Thakore and ZA Jariwala joined Dua as equity partners, and its partners Agnes Baradia and Jyoti Ghag joined as salaried partners. Thakore and Jariwala focus on litigation.
Chandigarh
SAK managing partner Siddhartha Kumar joined Dua as equity partner and independent Chandigarh lawyer Aman Bahri joined as a salaried partner. Bahri is a litigator, Kumar focusses on corporate.
Delhi
Managers Amarta Roy and Suneera Tandon were promoted to parter. Independent litigator Munawwar Naseem re-joined the firm, as partner, after a gap of five years.
Bangalore
Managers Rayappa Hadagali and P K Shrikara were promoted to partner.
Chennai
Manager Arjun Suresh was promoted to partner.
IC Legal promoted principal associate Suneet Barve to partnership effective 1 April. Barve co-heads the firm’s funds practice and is a part of its financial services practice.
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has promoted two senior associates to associate partner level: both Rajat Chhabra and Vivek Bajaj are based in Pune in the tax practice.