[Exclusive]: CAM’s trump card? Cyril Shroff to acquire MNK Law Offices in Delhi

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas is acquiring Delhi-based law firm MNK Law Offices, a firm that is led by four Partners Probal Bhaduri, Gyanendra Kumar, Anuradha Mukherjee and Srinivas Kilambi. This development has been confirmed by our sources..The MNK team will be a big boost for Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ Delhi office considering the experience and areas of practice that these partners would bring along with them..Probal specializes in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, takeovers, and compliance and regulatory requirements. Before joining MNK, Probal was the Director of Legal in India, of the Avenue Capital Group Prior to this, Probal was a partner at the Delhi office of AZB & Partners. Probal has also worked with London firm Garrett & Co..Gyanendra heads the real estate practice of MNK. Prior to setting up MNK, Gyanendra worked with Arthur Andersen in its tax and business advisory department..Anuradha heads the litigation team in MNK. She has been an arguing counsel since 1993..Prior to joining MNK, Srinivas was one of the founding partners with KSB Partners. He has considerable experience in the field of corporate finance and general corporate advisory services..Before setting up KSB Partners, Srinivas was the General Counsel of GE Commercial Finance for India and South East Asia for about 8 years and before that Srinivas spent three years with Dua Associates..Srinivas is a graduate from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and holds an LL.M. from Columbia University, New York..Cyril Shroff has already hired nine partners for his new partnership and with this acquisition he will have 13 strong partners in Delhi. The others are Gokul Rajan, Nikhil Naredi, Harry Chawla and Niti Paul from Kochhar & Co, Harsh Kumar from Khaitan, Raghuram Raju, Luthra & Luthra Delhi Banking & Finance Patner Piyush Mishra, Khaitan & Co Delhi Litigation Partner Gauri Rasgotra and ELP Litigation Partner Kirat Nagra..Cyril Shroff and MNK Partners were not available for comments at the time of publishing the story.