J. Sagar Associates has promoted Senior Associates Probir Roy Chowdhury and Seema Sukumar to partnership along with 16 other lawyers promoted across Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore offices taking the totally of newly elevated partners to 18..Both Probir and Seema are based in the firm’s Bangalore office. Probir is a part of the firm’s Corporate Commercial, Private Equity / Venture Capital & Information Technology Practices. After graduating from Symbiosis Law College, Pune in 2004, Probir joined JSA and has been with the firm since then..Seema focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Collaborations, Venture Capital, General Corporate Commercial Laws and Infrastructure Projects. She is a graduate of Indian Law Society, Pune. Seema has been with the firm for more than six years, joining JSA in 2006. Prior to that, she was working with Udwadia & Udeshi..Speaking to Bar & Bench on this huge round of promotions at the firm, Managing Partner Berjis Desai said, “It is little unusual. Last year very few people were elevated as retained partners. It just so happened that so many people have qualified at a given point of time and they are clustered together. Normally, it’s about 8-10 people who get promoted but this time it is much more. It is just a co-incidence.”.The firm has also promoted two Retained Partners Vishnu Sudarsan and Varghese Thomas to ‘Equity Partner Elect’. The flurry of promotions follows the retirement of Jyoti Sagar, the man who founded the firm more than two decades ago..The changes in the firm, also include the resignation of Equity Partner, Abeezar E. Faizullabhoy who will be taking up an executive position in a power company.
J. Sagar Associates has promoted Senior Associates Probir Roy Chowdhury and Seema Sukumar to partnership along with 16 other lawyers promoted across Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore offices taking the totally of newly elevated partners to 18..Both Probir and Seema are based in the firm’s Bangalore office. Probir is a part of the firm’s Corporate Commercial, Private Equity / Venture Capital & Information Technology Practices. After graduating from Symbiosis Law College, Pune in 2004, Probir joined JSA and has been with the firm since then..Seema focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Collaborations, Venture Capital, General Corporate Commercial Laws and Infrastructure Projects. She is a graduate of Indian Law Society, Pune. Seema has been with the firm for more than six years, joining JSA in 2006. Prior to that, she was working with Udwadia & Udeshi..Speaking to Bar & Bench on this huge round of promotions at the firm, Managing Partner Berjis Desai said, “It is little unusual. Last year very few people were elevated as retained partners. It just so happened that so many people have qualified at a given point of time and they are clustered together. Normally, it’s about 8-10 people who get promoted but this time it is much more. It is just a co-incidence.”.The firm has also promoted two Retained Partners Vishnu Sudarsan and Varghese Thomas to ‘Equity Partner Elect’. The flurry of promotions follows the retirement of Jyoti Sagar, the man who founded the firm more than two decades ago..The changes in the firm, also include the resignation of Equity Partner, Abeezar E. Faizullabhoy who will be taking up an executive position in a power company.