Wadia Ghandy partner & cricket captain Amit Manubarwala joins ELP corporate

Tuesday, 9 September 2014 By Legally India Law firms

Wadia Ghandy partner Amit Manubarwala has joined Economic Law Practice (ELP) as an associate partner in the corporate and commercial group.

The qualified Bombay solicitor became a partner at Wadia Ghandy in 2012, having joined the firm in 2005 from Crawford Bayley & Co, where he began his career in 1999 as a trainee while at GLC Mumbai.

He specialises in joint ventures, M&A, private equity, IP and competition law, according to an ELP press release.

Wadia Ghandy managing partner Ashish Ahuja commented via email: “Apart from being a good lawyer, Amit was also the cricket captain for our team. Next year we anticipate an even tougher final with ELP in the ELP cup, but we will still win.”

“On his career, we would like to wish him all the best,” he added.

Last month, Wadia Ghandy partner Gaurav Singhi had joined J Sagar Associates (JSA).

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Comments

Lawyer 9 Sept 2014, 16:13
+11 -4
May day, May day?
Elp 9 Sept 2014, 17:50
+1 -0
Good luck..
Sir Jadejas Fan 9 Sept 2014, 18:02
+7 -1
Ab cricket kaun khelega
Cric 10 Sept 2014, 17:55
+1 -1
Lexygen...
Well wisher 9 Sept 2014, 18:22
+6 -6
Fantastic lawyer and good human being - great catch for ELP! All the best. .
Scooter- 10 Sept 2014, 05:37
+2 -0
pun intended?
Questioner 10 Sept 2014, 03:29
+8 -1
What makes WG so sure that they will qualify for finals ?! After all, Phoenix Legal beat them once before. Delusional !
Puzzled 10 Sept 2014, 05:36
+19 -2
WG sounds more of losing a cricket captain than a partner !!!
DBS 10 Sept 2014, 09:05
+5 -1
cases & clients will come & go but at the end of the day Cricket will be the winner, as Ravi Shastri would say :)
Confused 10 Sept 2014, 08:43
+10 -3
Why is it relevant that he was the captain of the cricket team or that he played cricket at all? Isn't this simply one partner of a law firm moving from one law firm to another?
kianganz 10 Sept 2014, 08:52
+14 -3
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:)
Govind 10 Sept 2014, 09:48
+0 -0
Genius!
hubba 11 Sept 2014, 07:41
+0 -0
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Shaabash Kian!
@ Confused 10 Sept 2014, 10:04
+1 -0
Do you really want LI to go bland and exclude all ancillary information that makes the story more interesting to most readers?
Jagga 12 Sept 2014, 06:10
+0 -0
ALl is well
Analysis 10 Sept 2014, 09:10
+0 -1
Great guy. Good move.
Duhh 10 Sept 2014, 10:32
+5 -2
WG has lost the plot! Wish him well and end the email there. Not a wise move to throw down the gauntlet to Rohan Shah and his team in public!!
NDA / DSK / KCO 10 Sept 2014, 10:35
+3 -1
Baaki sab law firms ne to chudiya pehni hai na! They will roll over and die and let WG and ELP waltz into the finals!!

Talk about basking in past glory...
JSA / AMSS / AZB 10 Sept 2014, 11:55
+1 -2
Arrey tu ("NDA / DSK/ KCO") aa na.
Il play you 1 vs 7 and still beat you.
Harsha Bhogle 10 Sept 2014, 11:58
+1 -2
They have [...] who can win single handedly.
Sanjay Manjrekar 10 Sept 2014, 12:01
+0 -1
True! [b][...][/b] has been the best player in the tournament. He can do it again for Wadia.
kianganz 10 Sept 2014, 12:08
+2 -0
Guuys... Are you making fun of someone or are they actually that good? It's hard to tell.
Concerned 10 Sept 2014, 14:07
+4 -1
Quite Concerned about WG. It seems to be going through its worst phase yet..sinking ship and all that. Kian..give goss about Lit firms no. Please!
Inside Man 10 Sept 2014, 23:31
+8 -0
Kian - Amit became partner in 2011. Please check your facts. Even the link you've provided says so. Quite aghast.

On a related note - 4 partners have left Wadia Ghandy since the start of FY 13. No point really in even trying to count the number of associates that have left since then. 2 other partners are also somewhat on their way out (albeit less publicly).Its about time that Ashish and Wadia Ghandy worry less about their cricket team and more about what's really going on in a firm that is otherwise known to have minute or no attrition problems.
Lawyer 11 Sept 2014, 20:50
+0 -0
Someone told me that they are now offering lower salaries? Anyone roger?
Concerned 12 Sept 2014, 06:47
+2 -0
I've heard the same thing. Also that they aren't allowing article clerks to complete their articles and randomly asking them to leave. Poor kids.
Obviously Kian doesn't want to give us any news. Lit firms and GLC find no place in the grand scheme of LI!
Anon 12 Sept 2014, 07:00
+0 -0
I agree with you! Given the number of comments on LI regarding serious internal issues at WG and news in the market(partner and associate departures are only the tip of the iceberg), one would have thought LI would have reported on these. But it seems Kian is happier posting repetitive stories about PXV than to actually dig deeper into what is clearly a very murky situation involving serious financial crunch, massive ego clashes and a clear loss of faith in the managing partner.
Anon 12 Sept 2014, 11:44
+0 -0
Guys guys, calm down.. All firms have a churn in man power every now and then.. so many partners left AZB, and no one seemed to bat an eye lid and accusing Zia of facing a financial crunch or having ego clashes... If anything I think its a good sign as a firm grows..
Anon 12 Sept 2014, 12:00
+12 -0
Really? Did AZB suddenly scale down salaries? Did Zia try to make new (salaried) partners sign a partnership deed pushing past liabilities on to them and asking them to repay their salaries if targets aren't achieved? Did some partners of AZB refuse to share rent costs of other offices in the same city? Did AZB suddenly go from a practice based partnership to eat what you kill model where the IP partner is suddenly doing non-IP litigation and the litigation partner is suddenly advising on PE deals?
!! 20 Sept 2014, 12:27
+0 -0
Kian - I had posted certain additional information in the same manner as this comment to which I am replying. Could you pleas explain to me why my comment was not published?
Concerned 12 Sept 2014, 13:58
+0 -1
HAHAHAHA! Yes. This and other such news. Plus the latest happenings at High Courts (specially Bombay).
Kian-Since Litigation is the IN thing (as one of your previous articles/news update mentioned), you might want to report on some matters. Law and Legal India (and therefore Legally India) is not and should not be ONLY about the latest commercial deals, the smattering of SC matters which are quoteworthy and which partner with super credentials left which fancy corp firm to join another fancy corp firm or to start up his/her own fancy corp firm or to get married or to write a book or whatever. There is SO MUCH happening in the Hon'ble Bombay High Court right now for instance. Please visit CR Nos. 16B, 20,37 & 52 to name a few and you will know. Get out of your silly little bubble.
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