Rahul Saha, an NUJS Kolkata 2008 graduate, has been promoted to partner at US-international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher in London.
He is part of the firm’s competition practice and one of two London promotions at the firm. According to the firm’s press release he “advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including EU and UK merger control, cartels, competition litigation and UK market investigations”:
He frequently represents clients before the European Commission and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, as well as a range of UK sector regulators. Rahul advises clients across a wide range of sectors, including retail/consumer goods, e-commerce, finance, payments, pharma, telecoms and energy. He also has experience advising on EU and UK sector-specific regulation, in particular in relation to energy and telecom matters.
While at NUJS, Saha had interned at erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas, but he has spent most of his legal career outside of India since graduating.
He completed his training contract at Hong Kong-Australian firm King & Wood Mallesons, which absorbed UK firm SJ Berwin in 2013 in an ill-fated merger that fell apart by 2016.
Saha moved to Wilkie Farr as a senior associate in 2016.
Willkie is a highly profitable US law firm, which also has six offices in European business capitals.
It had a total of 146 equity partners and 10 non-equity partners, with average profits per equity partner of $3.1m and total revenues of $817m in 2018, according to the American Lawyer.
The firm had introduced the non-equity partnership tier in 2019.
We have not been able to confirm at the time of publication whether Saha has been promoted to equity partnership or the recently-launched non-equity tier (see below), but have reached out to Saha for comment.
Other recent foreign firm partnership promotions of Indian law school graduates have included:
- NLS 07 Vinay Kurien promoted to partner at foreign firm Jones Day
- Busy Hong-Kong-based India-PE bee Abhishek Krishnan (ex-NLS/AMSS) becomes Goodwin Procter partner
Comments
M and a is a commodity where the lowest bidder wins. This is unlike the west.
I would love to be in his shoes. But it depends on aptitude, attitude and luck.
Not all make millions.