Shardul Shroff is close to finalizing the top-level management of his half of the country’s largest firm, Amarchand Mangaldas..Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas is likely to have seven new Equity Partners..Although this has not been confirmed by the Senior Partners at the firm, the following lawyers are likely to be elevated to equity:.1. Dev Robinson2. Naval Chopra3. Prashant Gupta4. Raghubir Menon5. Ravindra Bandhkavi (Gurgaon office)6. Shweta Shroff Chopra7. Tejas Karia.These Partners would add to the league of existing equity partners i.e., Shardul Shroff, Pallavi Shroff, Gunjan Shah, Akila Aggarwal, Jatin Aneja, Kalpatru Tripathy, Ritu Bhalla, Amit Kumar and Ajoy Roy..According to sources, the firm is likely to promote the following principal associates to salaried partnership..1. Abhishek Guha (Corporate)2. Amit Singhania (Direct Tax)3. Anuj Berry (Litigation)4. Anoop Rawat (Project Finance)5. Aparna Tuteja Mehra (Competition)6. Harman Sandhu (Competition)7. Misha (Litigation)8. Monal Mukherjee (Capital Markets)9. Nishant Joshi (Litigation)10. Rudra Kumar Pandey (Corporate)11. Saanjh Purohit (Litigation)12. Saurav De Biswas (Corporate)13. Sayantan Dutta (Capital Markets)14. Vaibhav Kothari.The new Equity Partners Raghubir and Ravindra are graduates of National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Raghubir graduated in 2001 and focuses on the firm’s corporate practice. Ravindra moved from Cyril Shroff’s office in Mumbai to Delhi and heads the Gurgaon office..Tejas is a graduate of ILS Law College, Pune and is part of the litigation practice group..Naval Chopra and Shweta Shroff Chopra lead the Competition Law Practice at the firm along with Senior Partner Pallavi Shroff. Naval is a graduate of ILS Law College, Pune and holds an LL.M. from University of Michigan. Shweta, who graduated from Cardiff University, will now enter the firm’s equity partnership..Prashant heads the firm’s Capital Markets practice, while Dev Robinson handles the IP practice..Earlier last week, Bar & Bench had published a story on Cyril Shroff ‘s new equity partners and the promotion of 12 salaried partners..Both, Senior Partners at the firm and the new promotees, were not available for comments at the time of publication of this story.
Shardul Shroff is close to finalizing the top-level management of his half of the country’s largest firm, Amarchand Mangaldas..Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas is likely to have seven new Equity Partners..Although this has not been confirmed by the Senior Partners at the firm, the following lawyers are likely to be elevated to equity:.1. Dev Robinson2. Naval Chopra3. Prashant Gupta4. Raghubir Menon5. Ravindra Bandhkavi (Gurgaon office)6. Shweta Shroff Chopra7. Tejas Karia.These Partners would add to the league of existing equity partners i.e., Shardul Shroff, Pallavi Shroff, Gunjan Shah, Akila Aggarwal, Jatin Aneja, Kalpatru Tripathy, Ritu Bhalla, Amit Kumar and Ajoy Roy..According to sources, the firm is likely to promote the following principal associates to salaried partnership..1. Abhishek Guha (Corporate)2. Amit Singhania (Direct Tax)3. Anuj Berry (Litigation)4. Anoop Rawat (Project Finance)5. Aparna Tuteja Mehra (Competition)6. Harman Sandhu (Competition)7. Misha (Litigation)8. Monal Mukherjee (Capital Markets)9. Nishant Joshi (Litigation)10. Rudra Kumar Pandey (Corporate)11. Saanjh Purohit (Litigation)12. Saurav De Biswas (Corporate)13. Sayantan Dutta (Capital Markets)14. Vaibhav Kothari.The new Equity Partners Raghubir and Ravindra are graduates of National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Raghubir graduated in 2001 and focuses on the firm’s corporate practice. Ravindra moved from Cyril Shroff’s office in Mumbai to Delhi and heads the Gurgaon office..Tejas is a graduate of ILS Law College, Pune and is part of the litigation practice group..Naval Chopra and Shweta Shroff Chopra lead the Competition Law Practice at the firm along with Senior Partner Pallavi Shroff. Naval is a graduate of ILS Law College, Pune and holds an LL.M. from University of Michigan. Shweta, who graduated from Cardiff University, will now enter the firm’s equity partnership..Prashant heads the firm’s Capital Markets practice, while Dev Robinson handles the IP practice..Earlier last week, Bar & Bench had published a story on Cyril Shroff ‘s new equity partners and the promotion of 12 salaried partners..Both, Senior Partners at the firm and the new promotees, were not available for comments at the time of publication of this story.