partnership promotions
Luthra & Luthra has promoted six managing associates to partner level, reported Bar & Bench.
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 Mumbai promotes 5 to partner in 3rd round this year after revolving door of senior exits & hires
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.
Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has promoted private equity associate partner Vinayak Burman to its partnership, with six senior associates climbing the rung to associate partner level.
J Sagar Associates’ (JSA) intellectual-property-sister firm K&S Partners has promoted four to equity partner level.
IndusLaw promoted Bangalore dispute resolution principal associate Lomesh Kiran Nidumuri to partnership, taking its partner count to 12 across all offices.
Getting the ratio of partners to non-partner fee-earners right has its rewards, but it is, at best, an inexact science.
AZB & Partners has promoted 10 lawyers to partner level, with two getting the nod in Mumbai and 10 in Delhi.
Trilegal has promoted Gautam Singh and Kunal Chandra to its partnership in Mumbai.
Chandra joined the firm in 2006 and specialises in corporate.
Singh joined the firm in 2010 and focuses on corporate M&A and private equity.
Trilegal management committee member Rahul Matthan commented: “Gautam and Kunal are welcome additions to the firm’s corporate practice. They have both been with the firm for a long time and fully imbibe the culture and work ethic of the partnership. They bring strong technical skills and will help deepen our relationship with our clients.”
The Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi-region partnership, led by Shardul Shroff who is in the final stages of a separation with the half of the firm led by his brother Cyril from Mumbai since November 2014, on Tuesday for the first time announced internally that the firm was likely to split, subject to the outcome of the still ongoing mediation between the brothers that is set to conclude at the end of this month.