Udwadia Udeshi & Argus splinters: 2 lit partners leave, following Udeshi & Argus co-founder departures [UPDATE-1]

Friday, 7 November 2014 By Legally India Law firms

Udwadia Udeshi & Argus (UUA) Partners, the firm created by the 2012-merger of Kolkata start-up Argus Law Partners and Bombay solicitors firm Udwadia & Udeshi, has lost two litigation partners, Amol Bavare and Mihir Kamdar, who will start their own practice according to a report on Bar & Bench.

The leaving of partner Bavare and associate partner Kamdar, follows the Dilip Udeshi leaving the firm in July, which UUA managing partner Krishnava Dutt denied when asked about by Legally India in May of this year.

Bar & Bench reported that Udeshi would continue his own practice.

Update: Dutt has confirmed the departures to Legally India and that the firm would continue under the Udwadia Udeshi & Argus name.

Argus co-founder Ramya Hariharan left the firm in September.

Udwadia & Udeshi (founded in 1997 by Udeshi and Darius Udwadia), and Argus Partners (formed in 2009 by a breakaway team from Amarchand Mangaldas’ Kolkata office that soon expanded to Mumbai) had merged in 2012 to create a 12-partner, 60-lawyer firm.

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Comments

Lost 7 Nov 2014, 10:24
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So after so may departures, how many are left back home? this is becoming a trend in traditional law firms...
Guest 7 Nov 2014, 11:21
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Is the Firm still called Udwadia Udeshi and Argus?
kianganz 7 Nov 2014, 11:27
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Just confirmed - yes, the name of the firm will remain the same...
xyz 7 Nov 2014, 11:23
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Another failed merger
DBS 7 Nov 2014, 12:00
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Who among the partners is ex-Crawford Bayley ??
Anon 7 Nov 2014, 14:21
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Last sentence is incomplete
Ex-UUA 7 Nov 2014, 14:44
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Bleah! Knew it was coming!
abc 7 Nov 2014, 22:54
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Hi Kian, would be interesting to know about the deals the firm has been working on in the last year or so. Time for Krishnava to demonstrate why he has continued to be highly regarded even after his AMSS days.
grumpy parrot 8 Nov 2014, 02:33
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Kian, so what is the present bench strength of Argus-Udwadia? How many partners? Also, with Udeshi's exit, has the firm's name now been changed to Argus-Udwadia?
Non NUJS 8 Nov 2014, 06:06
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No NUJS people involved- comments wont reach double figures...
Non NUJS 8 Nov 2014, 06:08
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No NUJS people involved- so not interesting ... wont reach 10 comments
abc 8 Nov 2014, 08:10
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I blv that after the merger, this firm has followed a policy of not publicizing the deals it does.....
Ex-UUA 8 Nov 2014, 10:05
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Bullshit!
abc 8 Nov 2014, 17:26
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Sour grapes?
Lawyer 8 Nov 2014, 20:49
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Not entirely correct - have seen reports of deals on LI, B&B as well as a couple of the other international deal reporting websites.
Bond 9 Nov 2014, 08:38
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Kian, what exactly is your first update??
kianganz 10 Nov 2014, 14:28
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Sorry, the last sentence was cut off. The update was 3 paragraphs from the bottom, in the bit that says:

Update: Dutt has confirmed the departures to Legally India and that the firm would continue under the Udwadia Udeshi & Argus name.
Law Champ 9 Nov 2014, 18:44
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The whole mumbai litigation team of UUA Mumbai has left the firm and there is no one to look after the litigation work of UUA.
Lawyer 10 Nov 2014, 14:27
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Please complete the update!
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