Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai region has promoted 13 of its lawyers to principal associate and 20 to senior associate.
Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai region, which includes the Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad offices, has promoted 13 of its lawyers to principal associate and 20 to senior associate.
A total of 10 lawyers were promoted to the principal associate designate level, which is a designation between senior and principal associate at Amarchand, and 11 associates were bumped up into the senior associate designate bracket.
However, for the first time this year, it is understood that Amarchand changed its policy so that “designates” would not automatically advance to the more senior level in the following year.
In other words, previously a principal associate designate would be guaranteed to become a principal associate the next year. Legally India understands that this policy has been discontinued.
Amarchand Mangaldas senior partner Vandana Shroff confirmed the number and names of promoted associates (below), but declined to comment on the firm’s promotion or designation policy.
New principal associates:
- Aditya Mehta
- Sundaresh Maheshwari
- Tapan Deshpande
- Arun Siwach
- Kunal Savani
- Ashish Jain
- Harsh Maggon
- Rishabh Shroff
- Tirthankar Datta
- Nikunj Maheshwari
- Atman Desai
- Ruchira Shroff
- Subhojit Sadhu
Senior associates:
- Abhishek Singh
- Adarsh Saxena
- Aniruddha Ghosh
- Arpan Chowdhury
- Kashish Bhatia
- Madhav Kanoria
- Manasvini Raj
- Meera Jayakumar
- Namrata Rao
- Prateek Shroff
- Ridhesh Vora
- Rohan Banerjee
- Ronak Ajmera
- Shehryar Khanum
- Shruti KP
- Soumya Hariharan
- Surya Sreenivasan
- Taher Mandviwala
- Vipul Jain
- Vivek Rathore
J Sagar Associates (JSA), promoted 23 lawyers to the senior associate level across its offices in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Delhi and Hyderabad. JSA does not have a principal associate designation.
Many thanks to readers who have helped us with confirming these names. If anyone can confirm Amarchand Delhi, Khaitan & Co Mumbai, and AZB & Partners’ associate promotions, that’d be much appreciated.
Comments
"A total of 10 lawyers were promoted to the principal associate designate level, which is a designation between senior and principal associate at Amarchand, and 11 associates were bumped up into the senior associate designate bracket."
Love them or hate them, you have to hand it to the Shroffs. They have a bunch of very talented lawyers who have a lot of attitude about being so good and have yet managed to get them to work in a family owned firm where over 50% of the equity (as previously reported on LI) is held by the family. There is no real attempt to disguise this either. Not an easy task.
Now, why anyone would want to be a partner (not that relevant for PA's) in a family owned firm no matter what the incentives (money, good deals), is beyond me.
Most people know all of this but cant come to accept it publically.
You still have not posted my original comment. Why?
Here goes part of your original comment:
[quote]Amarchand Mumbai doesnt seem to follow the merit model. You have missed highlighting that Rishabh Shroff has been made a PA! Wow! Talk about being biased Kian! What qualifications does he have to leap frog to PA? His older cousin in Delhi, Natashaa, is not a PA yet![/quote]
To be fair, anecdotally, I didn't think Rishabh Shroff had leapfrogged at all, has he? There are other PAs with similar PQE to him, no?
Why have u not published the names of associated promoted to principal/senior associate designate level? Any particular reason?
Even so, Kian - can you provide a list of the PA designates? (since these are only 10 in number)
Also, we don't have the data - if someone wants to share it in the comments below, anonymously, please feel free, but we won't be including the names in the main article.
Best regards,
Kian
SA and PA designates are not automatic titles. There are many Associates who do not get such titles. So in a way its a promotion. AMSS is a big firm, but just because the list would be long should not be a reason to not publish it. That ways law journals should not publish long judgments!
In any case, I guess you would find data if you check the place where you receive data from "send us a tip".
Love them or hate them, you have to hand it to the Shroffs. They have a bunch of very talented lawyers who have a lot of attitude about being so good and have yet managed to get them to work in a family owned firm where over 50% of the equity (as previously reported on LI) is held by the family. There is no real attempt to disguise this either. Not an easy task.
Now, why anyone would want to be a partner (not that relevant for PA's) in a family owned firm no matter what the incentives (money, good deals), is beyond me.[/quote]
Money alone is incentive enough for most.
That's why it can pay lesser and still thrive!
True. But it would be interesting to note the number of promotions in Delhi vis-a-vis Bombay. Bombay has usually cared a bit more for quality control than Delhi.
Yes and it does not pay them either.
Its losing its charm (presuming it had any). Anyway ppl still consider it (AMSS) something. try working here, then see.
If you (a) have a solid understanding of the basics of law (a) can hang your "i'm so cool" boots when dealing with the family, get "to the point" and "get it done with" (b) work, work, work and bill, bill, bill (c) stay single-mindedly devoted to the King (d) not bitch about anyone anywhere within or outside the Firm and (e) trust them to assess you for what you really are... For about 5-odd years.
Then you will be a part of their thinking process.. and are likely to have 'arrived' in the Indian corporate law scene. Screw up on any one of the above - and you will be marginalized. Fast.