Wadia Ghandy promotes 5 homegrown lawyers to partner in Mumbai

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Monday, 30 March 2015 By Legally India Law firms

Wadia Ghandy has promoted five of its lawyers to partner level in Mumbai growing its total number of salaried partners to 28.

Senior associates Kingshuk Banerjee in disputes, Dhruv Khanna in private equity and aviation, Sanyantani Dutta in corporate, capital markets and private equityy and Nitesh Ranavat and Swapnil Khatri in real estate and disputes were made up.

Duttais a 2006 alumnus of NUJS Kolkata, Bannerjee and Ranavat are GLC Mumbai 2007 alumni, Khatri is a 2008 alumnus of Symbiosis Pune and Khanna is an articled clerk of the firm since 2004. Khanna qualified as a solicitor in 2008. All of them started their legal careers at Wadia.

Co-managing partner Dhawal Mehta confirmed the promotions and commented: “They are all homegrown, have been with us for seven to eight years.

“As is the tradition at Wadia Ghandy, the firm has always stood by young talent and given them a platform.”

Wadia Ghandypartnership promotionsKingshuk BanerjeeDhruv KhannaSayantani DuttaNitesh RanavatSwapnil Khatri

Comments

Sam 30 Mar 2015, 11:11
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Congratulations to Sayantani and Dhruv! Really very very happy for them!
virage 30 Mar 2015, 11:28
+7 -4
from Senior Associate to Partner, thats how it should be!! Hope other firms are reading this.
No Associate Partner, Principal Associate, Managing Associate & other fancy designations!!
Guest 30 Mar 2015, 11:53
+5 -1
Do you even know about Wadia? It does have two of these designations.
virage 30 Mar 2015, 12:10
+1 -1
but these 5 were Senior Associates as reported on Bar & Bench, so they surpassed these designations then??!!
Guest2 30 Mar 2015, 13:22
+3 -4
Salaried Partners are not Partners. That is the same designation as an Associate Partner.
vanquish 30 Mar 2015, 15:23
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you mean to say they are still 'Retainers' & not salaried partners??!! Strange!!
DFS 30 Mar 2015, 11:30
+1 -3
this had to happen as there have been so many Partner exits here!
How much are Associates paid in WG ??
senior 30 Mar 2015, 11:31
+5 -3
Congrats Sayantani ... one of the most genuine and nicest human beings I have come across ... leave aside being a wonderful lawyer...
Guest 30 Mar 2015, 11:33
+22 -14
Are they [...] to become senior associates at AZB?
virage 30 Mar 2015, 12:11
+2 -1
i guess so. Some years back Associate Partner at Crawford became Senior Associate at AZB !!
Krishna 30 Mar 2015, 12:37
+0 -1
.....and Associates at Crawford become partners at K Law!!
Lovells 30 Mar 2015, 18:23
+4 -0
[quote name="Krishna"].....and Associates at Crawford become partners at K Law!![/quote]

Just that there was a good long years gap and a stint at Lovell's in Singapore. Just FYI.
Sure they do! 30 Mar 2015, 12:09
+0 -0
They just don't like retaining old talent.
Batchmate 30 Mar 2015, 12:26
+8 -2
Kingshuk Banerjee is GLC 2009, please. Well done, sir!
Guest 30 Mar 2015, 12:30
+5 -3
Aren't these guys too young to become partners? Surely 6-8 years is well below the average age for becoming partners at Tier I/Tier II firms.

I must mention that I haven't worked with any of the lawyers mentioned. They may well be brilliant to justify the early promotion, but still...
vanquish 30 Mar 2015, 15:24
+0 -0
i guess thats the tradition in Wadia Ghandy!
Aston 30 Mar 2015, 17:39
+0 -0
Yes, too soon! They will leave after some years & join one of the big 4.

As everyone knows by now, a Senior Associate in Big 4 is paid more than a Partner in Tier II firm!!
Tintin 30 Mar 2015, 15:38
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Considering the volume of recent resignations, this was due.
Guest 30 Mar 2015, 17:45
+5 -0
congrats dhruv!
SA 30 Mar 2015, 18:25
+0 -0
Wadia promoted a 3 years pqe to Senior Associate last year.
Rollingeyes 31 Mar 2015, 14:58
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[quote name="SA"]Wadia promoted a 3 years pqe to Senior Associate last year.[/quote]
Instead last year a 2 years PQE was made a senior associate in Wadia!
Q 31 Mar 2015, 04:38
+0 -0
Who all have been made SA this year??
Big 4? 31 Mar 2015, 04:39
+1 -1
@8.2 Aston

Big 4? Last I heard it was the Big 6. Or have we already started eliminating Amarchand (undivided and split) and Luthra from the mix?
poet 31 Mar 2015, 09:00
+5 -0
Partners promoted,some pretty young,
The deed is done, the fat lady has sung,
Show them all, force them to rethink,
Soar to the sky, when they expect you to sink..
Guest 31 Mar 2015, 16:17
+2 -6
Congratulations Nitesh... Known him personally for very long... He is very talented and hardworking... Good pick by Wadia Ghandy...
InsiderWG 3 Apr 2015, 02:18
+4 -0
Desperate attempt to keep people. Now there are less SAs then partners and majority of associates are freshers only. An era of WG ends
SymbiRocks 3 Apr 2015, 02:18
+1 -0
Go Swapnil !
Where r the SAs 3 Apr 2015, 11:45
+0 -0
??

Or has wadia founded a twofold strategy.. Associates n Partners!
Guest 5 Apr 2015, 16:31
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They have promoted around 5 associates to senior associate designation. Just that it hasn't been reported here. And about end of WG era you definitely haven't seen there bills/clientale (old and new). corporate might be weak at the moment but wouldn't it be foolish not to acknowledge there presence in real estate practice? There has been alot of attrition and no positive upward revision in salaries but they have gone on hiring spree as far as recruiting associates are concerned and have also increased their base pay package (I am sure about this bit and you can confirm it independently with new recruits and figures on law octopus are therefore stale)
FYI 6 Apr 2015, 10:15
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Nitesh is from RIZVI and NOT GLC. Please
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