The firm has procured a Delhi office in the Neeti Bagh area headed up by Delhi advocate Harshvardhan Jha, who joined the firm last month after having been working with the firm independently for more than one year said managing partner Ameet Naik.

The nearly 5,000 square foot Delhi office was taken on in November of last year but has now become fully operational, he added.

Furthermore, Mumbai salaried partners Anuja Jhunjhunwala and Madhu Gadodia have signed up to Naik Naik & Co’s partnership deed as equity partners effective 1 April, which will include a fixed equity remuneration component and an upside, explained Naik.

Jhunjhunwala focuses on retail, real estate and litigation and graduated from GJ Advani Law College Mumbai around 2002.

Gadodia specialises in technology, media and entertainment law and dispute resolution out of the firm’s Andheri office that was started less than a year ago. She graduated from Jitendra Chohan College of Law Mumbai in 2002.

She said: “Even to become a partner is amazing; to become an equity partner gets you a sense of ownership coupled with a sense of responsibility that motivates you to step into a larger role.”

where you participate not just execute the work but also building the work for the work.

Kale is based in one of the firm’s two Nariman point offices and works in the corporate, commercial and M&A team headed up by Naik, which has grown to seven fee-earners headed, explained the managing partner. He is a graduate of GLC Mumbai and had joined the firm in 2005.

Suryawanshi is an ILS Pune graduate, having started his career as an advocate in the city, and now specialises in media, entertainment, litigation and property work and is based with Gadodia in the Andheri media law office.

Gadodia said that since starting up the office in the suburb, it had now grown to six non-partner lawyers. Clients had responded well to the office’s location in Andheri, nearer to the Bollywood studios and media companies, she said.