Indigo has hired a new general counsel (GC) with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Singapore-based of counsel Priya Mehra, reported Bar & Bench.
She will be joining the airline with Gibson Dunn associate Bharat Bahadur, who will join as principal legal counsel.
Indigo has been ramping up its in-house team this year, with J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Akshay Nagpal having joined in April as an associate GC.
(And, as an aside, in October Indigo was rather famously the beneficiary of a caustic and rather amusing Bombay high court order by Justice GS Patel against its rival GoAir).
Mehra began her career at AZB & Partners in 2002 after graduating from Delhi University and moved to Jones Day Singapore in 2007.
In 2008, Gibson Dunn had poached her as part of the 10-lawyer team headed by Jones Day partner Jai Pathak.
Bahadur had joined Gibson Dunn from AZB & Partners in 2013, where he’d worked since graduating from Amity Law School Delhi in 2005.
Mehra told Bar & Bench that her move was an “exciting opportunity” to “get a feel of the business side after being the other side for more than 14+ years”.
Jai Pathak is the brother of P&A Associates managing partner Anand Pathak. Jones Day, in turn, was the former best-friend relationship firm of P&A, but that arrangement ended around three years ago.
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Indigo's topco Interglobe is headed up by Neena Gupta, while previous Indigo GC Aditya Ghosh, who had joined the company from JSA, of course became Indigo president 4 years later... :) http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/cover-story/young-indian-business-leaders-aditya-ghosh/story/15125.html
I'll try to do some more research and update the story, this is all half-remembered (or if someone knows the backstory, please do share here).