partnership promotions
K Law has promoted three to various partner levels in Mumbai and Bangalore, according to a press release from the firm.
AZB & Partners Mumbai has promoted a seventh - Sonali Mathur - to its partnership, following an announcement last month of six promotions.
IndusLaw has promoted Bangalore principal associates Pallavi Kanakagiri and Winnie Shekhar to partner, expanding its partnership to 19.
Vaish Associates has promoted 2 partners, 6 associate partners, 3 principal associates and 5 senior associates in its Delhi and Mumbai offices.
Karanjawala & Co has promoted consumer and debt recover tribunal (DRT) lawyer Seema Sundd as its ninth partner in the firm.
Bharucha & Partners has promoted Mumbai senior associate Ajai Achuthan as its eighth partner.
Rajani Associates has promoted four principal associates - Amish Shroff, Amit Kolekar, Ankur Singhania and Mayur Shetty - to associate partner level, with effect of 1 April 2017, growing the partnership to a total of 13.
J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted 11 principal associates to retained (salaried) partner level, reported Bar & Bench:
Trilegal has promoted Delhi disputes counsel Jafar Alam and Ashish Bhan into its all-equity partnership, which now numbers 37.
HSA Advocates has announced its annual promotions across three partnership ranks, and to its principal associate and senior associate designations, writing in its press release:
AZB & Partners has promoted the following six lawyers to partner in its Mumbai partnership:
Khaitan & Co has inducted 11 new equity partners, 9 new associate (salaried) partners and 4 counsels in its annual promotion round, taking it up to a total of 115 partners and directors and 15 counsels.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 20 lawyers to partner, with the majority in the corporate practice, in addition to formally inducting AZB & Partner partner Rishi Gautam as a partner from 1 April.
Linklaters has promoted managing associate and NLSIU Bangalore 2005 graduate Kanyaka Ramamurthi to partner, as reported by The Lawyer.
Mumbai-headquartered Juris Corp has promoted principal associates Nand Gopal Anand in Delhi and Arunabh Choudhary in Bangalore to its partnership.
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft special counsel Sinjini Saha, who is a 2004 graduate of NLSIU Bangalore, has been promoted to the US law firm’s partnership in London.
Delhi University 2004 graduate Amit Kataria has been elected to Morrison & Foerster’s partnership in Hong Kong, as part of a round of promotions to new partners.
Weil Gotshal & Manges associate Nitin Konchady, who is a 2006 graduate of NLSIU Bangalore, has been promoted to partner in the London banking department’s Europe-focused high yield debt practice area in a partnership promotion round of 13, according to the firm’s press release.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted Arjun Ghose, Shruti Kanodia, Nitesh Jain and Manjari Tyagi to partner.
The seven largest law firms in India have grown their headcounts by an average of around 20% in the last one-and-a-half years. Of those, the fastest-growing such as Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Khaitan & Co, had expanded fee-earner headcounts by 45% and 35% respectively, while others such as AZB & partners’ partnership ballooned by 75%.