Cyril Amarchand Hyd partner Anshuman Jaiswal to join Greenko as senior in-house lawyer

Jaiswal moves to investors' green energy darling Greenko in senior legal role
Jaiswal moves to investors' green energy darling Greenko in senior legal role

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Hyderabad partner Anshuman Jaiswal is going in-house to join Indian renewables giant Greenko Group in a senior position, as first reported by Bar & Bench.

Jaiswal, a 2003 Nalsar Hyderabad graduate who had begun his career at Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai, had moved to Hyderabad from Cyril Amarchand’s Mumbai office in July of this year after the departure of office head Rahul Sarella. The office will remain headed up by partner Harita Rao.

Cyril Amarchand managing partner Cyril Shroff confirmed his move to us and had told VCCircle that “he is moving in-house due to personal reasons and he has full support from the firm”.

We understand that Greenko does not currently have anyone in a general counsel (GC) type role in India.

Greenko has been heavily funded by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and others such as GE and has been involved in some large recent transactions such as its $315m buy of SunEdison’s Indian operations and many grounds of equity and debt fund raisings.

Greenko is a client of Cyril Amarchand, which had for instance assisted with Shearman & Sterling on its $550m high-yield bond offering in August of this year opposite Talwar Thakore & Associates.

However, the Greenko Group is also understood to have also used a number of other law firms, such as Trilegal, Lawrence Graham in London on the investment from Singapore’s GIC in 2013 (opposite AZB & Partners, which also acted in 2015), and other firms in Hyderabad such as J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Tatva Legal.

We have reached out to Jaiswal for comment.

Comments

Abcd 21 Dec 2016, 16:34
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What about the exit of Ashish Jejurkar?
Guest 21 Dec 2016, 20:24
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Sir I would urge you to do an investigation into the shocking incidents at Ambedkar Law University, as reported by the Hindu.

First, in blatant disregard of propriety the VC met scam queen Sasikala Natarajan and asked her to be the next CM of Tamil Nadu. How can he do this? And Sasikala does even hold any official post. She was just Jayalalitha's companion.

Second, there has been a big controversy about faculty recruitment.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/VCs-of-State-universities-meet-Sasikala-trigger-controversy/article16914720.ece

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/Governor’s-intervention-forced-law-varsity-to-put-off-recruitment/article16718062.ece
Haha 22 Dec 2016, 01:14
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Ambedkar university, really? It's difficult to keep track of what the NLUs are up to and you expect people to care about Ambedkar university? Is it even UGC recognised?
Dont 22 Dec 2016, 13:05
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NOBODY CARES! Stop trolling!
Guest 22 Dec 2016, 04:29
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Has CAM clarified whether the Hyd office still exists? After all Dorothy had indicated that Hyd will also be shut down. What about other associates and lawyers? And partners like Harris?!
kianganz 22 Dec 2016, 05:21
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Didn't directly ask CAM, but I understand it is still operating with one partner, one counsel and a few associates...
Guest 2 23 Dec 2016, 04:38
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Yes but I am given to understand that they are working from their respective residences.
Ex-SCAMer 2 Jan 2017, 08:40
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One Partner, One Counsel and one associate as things stand now. The admin staff has been trimmed as well. But I understand they are sticking on with the office space leased by them until the term of the lease ends.
So whats the total 22 Dec 2016, 06:30
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How many partners have left CAM since the split?
And what is that number in comparison to SAM, AZB, Khaitan and Luthra?
Will be interesting to know!
Guest 22 Dec 2016, 09:44
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All the Best Anshuman :)
Anshie 23 Dec 2016, 14:24
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Anshuman is a solid lawyer. Great catch for Greenko.
Magic number 23 2 Jan 2017, 16:53
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Around 23 partners have left CAM since the split mostly after April 1. 6 of these alongwith 45 associates went to AZB.