K Law hires 2nd projects lateral partner, with CAM sr associate Sharad Joshi

Sharad Joshi moves back to Mumbai with K Law
Sharad Joshi moves back to Mumbai with K Law

K Law has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi senior associate Sharad Joshi as an associate partner in Mumbai.

He specialises in project finance and infrastructure work and, according to his Linked-in profile, “construction contracts, drafting of various financing and security documents, master restructuring agreements, take-out finance related documents, bid documents (including concession agreements), tax effective EPC contracts, privately placed debenture transactions & acquisitions”.

Joshi has a 2006 LLB and a 2003 Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai, as well as an LLM in intellectual property from the same university.

He began his career in 2006 at Link Legal India Law Services, as it is now called, then joined Gammon Infrastructure Projects as a legal manager until 2012, moved to Clasis Law until 2015 and joined Tata Realty and Infrastructure for a brief five-month stint, before moving to Cyril Amarchand in August 2015.

Managing partner Naina Krishnamurthy commented: “His expertise in projects and project finance will complement our very strong infrastructure practice.

“With Pradeep Ratnam heading the practice group from Delhi and Sharad’s induction in Mumbai, our infrastructure practice will further strengthen pan India.”

Ratnam had joined in May 2016 from ILFS, where he was group general counsel (GC).

Last month K Law also hired Citius Law Partners co-founders Abhishek Shinde and Atish Kumar Vatts.

However, its capital markets partner Gautham Srinivas left a short while before that to Khaitan & Co.

Comments

Guest 1 Sept 2016, 08:45
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All the very best to Sharad. Indeed a loss to CAM Delhi and gain for K law.
CAM Juniour 1 Sept 2016, 08:46
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Sharad is a star! He's a great mentor and his knowledge of the law and business acumen is extremely strong! He will be an asset for KLAW!
Bad drafting? 1 Sept 2016, 09:10
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Has Gautham joined Linklegal again? Didn't he just move to Khaitan?
Please Stop 1 Sept 2016, 09:52
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Gautham has recently joined KCO!
kianganz 1 Sept 2016, 10:18
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Sorry, yes - got that the wrong way around by accident. Now corrected...
Magahi Jhaap 1 Sept 2016, 10:39
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Who? Gautam Khaitan? He is now available currently.
Blaahhhh 1 Sept 2016, 09:13
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Why are people leaving? Does anyone have inputs? Thoughts?
People leaving within a year of joining... something wrong somewhere...
Someone care to elaborate?
Some have put their futures at stake.
Well wisher 1 Sept 2016, 11:45
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Calm down! 10 years in the profession, no partnership in sight in CAM- not a surprise move.

Everything is not about pulling down a firm, wait and watch till the impact of events fully play out. Remember how AZB was being panned a few months back?
Whats in the name 1 Sept 2016, 09:47
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Sharad, one of the most sought after lawyer, is an amazing personality with an awesome legal acumen.. indeed Cyril's loss and K-Law's gain.. best wishes to Sharad
Guest 1 Sept 2016, 10:02
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Great lawyer. Best wishes.
Guest 1 Sept 2016, 12:13
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He is a good lawyer with good analytical skills. He has ability to draw reasonable ,logical conclusions. I am looking forward to working with him on more deals.
Guest 1 Sept 2016, 17:08
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Worked with him at CAM, needless to say his calm composure will take him a long way. Best wishes.
Scary Hairy 2 Sept 2016, 03:30
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I am a well wisher too. CAM has hired many based on false promises and has been unable to fulfill them to genuinely good lawyers. No surprise therefore that there is a mass exodus. Kian it is important that people learn the truth.
CAM Colleague 2 Sept 2016, 08:42
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Congrats Sharad. Out of the wings of Piyush Mishra and Ramanuj. Good job.
Hard Target 2 Sept 2016, 11:55
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The only No. 1 position CAM can now be on, will be the list of Tier 2 firms when LI publishes it. Tier 1 is lost.
Tissues 3 Sept 2016, 07:45
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Tum apni dukan chalane par focus karo, child. Cam apni dukan aaram sei chalalega. Cam is the only firm in the market that has any real securities law practice and capital market practice. The opinions that the firm issues and even its advisory work is light years ahead of your boring blah blah work that you might be doing. I am sure you will not even know 1/100th law as compared to what the lawyers sitting in its brilliant teams do. Go home and eat some proteins. Workload handle nahi ho pa raha hei tere sei or apne sei million times smarter logon par comment kar raha hai..
Guest 4 Sept 2016, 09:33
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Very strong infrastructure practice...seriously..Kian can you shed some light on Kela's infrastructure practice
Guest 4 Sept 2016, 19:27
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Have heard that the ealier AP was doing M&A work for the longest time. .
Too many people and too little work it seems..
Lookimg in from NYC 5 Sept 2016, 08:02
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With the arrival of foreign firms imminent- retention of talent should be the priority for all the Indian firms. They have the upper hand of having been in the market and knowing the market but if they are always in the news because of people at the high level leaving more than being in the news for what they are doing in terms of deals etc, then a time will come when they will be pillaged of their talent and will no longer be able to hold their ground in an open market.

A brand means nothing if you do not have the expertise to hold it up.

A serious rethink of policies is the need of the hour.

Can't wait to set up our offices in India. We will get all the heavy hitters and run these outfits to the ground because we know how to do business and know how to treat our people well.
Looking to NYC from in 5 Sept 2016, 12:27
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We want to be treated well. Come soon.
CAMite 6 Sept 2016, 06:08
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Sharad is truly an asset for any institution. He got major clients in Delhi and served them to couple of partners in Delhi and Mumbai. Its a sad affair to loose a person like him. He should have offered at least PA in CAM but unfortunately he agreed for SA and he did whatever he could do at his level. His major issue at CAM was that the team structure is top heavy rather than bottom heavy. Hope he gets good juniors at K Law.
Guest 8 Sept 2016, 18:23
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I am sure his knowledge, interest and expertise in working on infrastructure projects will be of great advantage. Best wishes.
brat 28 Sept 2016, 00:29
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all inhousers drafting documents n doing law firm stuff..even he seema more inhouse by prior exp..as is pradeep...good that have commercial sense n knlw people