LKS London partner Sumesh Sawhney joins Essar UK as group GC

Monday, 1 July 2019 By Legally India In-house counsel

Sawhney heads to Essar UK to head up group legal
Sawhney heads to Essar UK to head up group legal

Former Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) London partner Sumesh Sawhney has joined Essar Group in London as its general counsel this month, according to his Linked-in profile.

Though an Indian company, Essar has been highly active making and managing acquisitions globally in the natural resources space.

Sawhney is a 1992 Punjab University graduate, who had been partner at erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas and Clifford Chance’s India group in London, and Jones Day before joining LKS in 2016.

As we had first reported in March, LKS had closed its London office and Sawhney had left around 1 March, after Brexit had proved more of a problem than anticipated in UK-India work.

We have reached out to him for comment.

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Comments

Guest 1 Jul 2019, 12:32
+14 -12
Mr. Sawhney really deserves this position. Apart from having huge knowledge in the legal field, he is also a kind and a good human being. I must say that he really deserves this position.
Guest 1 Jul 2019, 14:33
+13 -4
A wonderful person indeed. Congratulations Sumesh boy! Keep it up!!
LKS Colleague 2 Jul 2019, 02:49
+6 -4
Wonderful News!! An outstanding lawyer with tons of experience!!! Have had the opportunity to work with him very closely and can say that he is in a different league.
007 2 Jul 2019, 05:22
+15 -0
Punjab is spelt as "PANJAB" when you write the name of the university located at Chandigarh. When you spell "Punjab University", you are actually referring to the university located at Lahore, Pakistan.
Appreciate 2 Jul 2019, 06:24
+4 -0
Never realized earlier. Thanks...
LKS Insider 3 Jul 2019, 08:54
+3 -4
What happens to the Partner he recruited from Nishith?

They both were planning to build a corporate team in LKS. [...]
LKS Insider 2 3 Jul 2019, 15:49
+1 -1
What happened to the people who [...] Sumesh and his team that LKS has thousands of clients so they only need have problem with execution?
TA-LKS 4 Jul 2019, 09:14
+3 -0
LKS London Office shutdown plan was imminent - was already planned almost a year ago. And all this planning is also planned way in advance, my friend. It's the modus operandi industry :) Goodluck!
Lucky Kaboothar 16 Jul 2019, 08:43
+1 -1
LKS is striving hard to build a corporate team with their client base. They are only servicing some mid and small size companies. [...]
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