partnership promotions

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.

Anoma Legal, the firm started in May 2018, by an exodus of seven partners from K Law, has promoted five of its principal associates to partner level:Anisha Jayaram – Bangalore (corporate / PE)Aparnaa Bhalotia – Mumbai (corporate / debt)Apeksha Amin – Mumbai (real estate)Arjun Sharma – Bangalore (corporate / pe)Natasha Rao – Bangalore (commercial / corporate)

Parinam Law Associates, which had been set up in November of last year by former ALMT Legal-JurisCorp partner Hitesh Jain and ex-J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Ravichandra Hegde, has promoted two of its co-founding partners to equity partner level, and two to salaried partners.

IndusLaw has promoted four of its lawyers to partnership, as well as four to principal associates and nine to senior associate, according to its press release.

Kachwaha & Partners has promoted senior associate Ankit Khushu as a partner on 1 April 2019.

Wadia Ghandy has promoted six of its senior associates to partnership.

Law firm Khaitan & Co has promoted 11 of its lawyers to partnership, of whom 6 are women, growing to a total size of 152 partners (with 13 female partners), and is now at 578 fee-earners.

Boutique Mumbai law firm M Mulla Associates, which had been started in 2010 by Mulla & Mulla partner Maneck Mulla, has internally promoted one senior associate to associate partner, after having hired former Naik Naik & Company partner Anuja Jhunjhunwala as a partner in January 2019.

Kolkata-headquartered firm Aquilaw, which had opened its third national office in Mumbai last year, has promoted two associate partners to its partnership, one to associate partner and has also announced its associate promotions, according to its press release.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has announced the promotion of 12 of its lawyers to associate partner level.

DLA Piper London-based India group member and legal director Joywin Mathew has been promoted to its partnership, in a promotion round of 77 lawyers across 43 different offices in 20 countries, according to DLA’s press release.

DSK Legal has promoted Mumbai-based associate partner Vikrant Singh Negi to partner, and four principal associates to associate partner.

HSA Advocates has promoted Delhi-based associate partners Rahul Talwar and Shreshth Sharma to its partnership.

AZB & Partners has made a massive promotion round of 15 to its partnership, with effect from today.

Trilegal has promoted six of its lawyers to its equity partnership, more than at any point in its history, growing to a total partnership size of 50.*

NLU-educated lawyer Vivekananda Neelakantan has been promoted as partner at top Singaporean firm Allen & Gledhill, which the former Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) deputy registrar from India had joined as international counsel in 2014.

Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) counsel P Ram Kumar has been promoted to the firm’s partnership in its competition team in Delhi, making him the firm’s first Delhi partner.

NLSIU Bangalore’s global legal diaspora has scored another partnership at an elite international law firm, with 2002 graduate Manas Chandrashekar getting the nod in Latham & Watkins’ Hong Kong office.

Argus Partners has promoted managing associate Nidhi Arya to partnership in its Kolkata office, as the firm’s fourth partner in the city.