JSA promotes Partner Aashit Shah to equity partnership

J. Sagar Associates has promoted Retained Partner Aashit Shah to equity partnership and he has now become ‘Equity Partner Elect’. Senior Associate Anish Mashruwala has been promoted to retained partnership as earlier reported by Bar & Bench..J. Sagar Associates has promoted Retained Partner Aashit Shah to equity partnership and he has now become ‘Equity Partner Elect’. Senior Associate Anish Mashruwala has been promoted to retained partnership as earlier reported by Bar & Bench. Both Aashit and Anish are based in the Mumbai office. The promotions are effective from April 1, 2012..Aashit has been with JSA since October 2005 and was made a Retained Partner in 2008. Aashit has been advising domestic and international clients on diverse areas of law such as Banking & Finance, Exchange Control, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Funds formation and General Corporate & Commercial laws..Aashit is a graduate of Government Law College Mumbai. He started his career with Nishith Desai Associates and then went off to do his LLM from Chicago Kent College of Law. After his Masters, he joined AZB & Partners as an Associate and worked there for almost 2 year before moving to JSA..JSA Founder Partner, Jyoti Sagar said “My Partners and I warmly welcome and congratulate Aashit as our new Equity Partner Elect and Anish as our Retained Partner. The Partnership at JSA remains committed to creating a growing pool of leaders of tomorrow and we will expedite the process of passing the baton to the succeeding generation of lawyers in the Firm – as our commitment to build a sharing, merit – based, empowering, and nurturing institution.”.This takes the total number of Equity Partners to 23 (including 3 Equity Partners Elects) and retained Partners to 28.