AZB Partner Shreyas Jayasimha quits to set up Aarna Law

AZB & Partners Bangalore partner Shreya Jayasimha has resigned to start up law firm Aarna Law, reported Bar & Bench without official comment from him or the firm.

Jayasimha graduated from NLSIU Bangalore in 2000, worked in the chambers of then advocate and now Delhi high court justice S Murlidhar for a year, and in the offices of Jayaram and Jayaram for another year, setting up Jayasimha Law Chambers in 2003. He joined AZB as partner in 2008.

In 2010 AZB broke up with its Bangalore merger partner of one-and-a-half-years, Anup Shah.

Comments

Pazzini ka baap 5 Aug 2013, 12:01
+17 -2
Good luck, Shreyas. Sure that u will succeed
Anon 5 Aug 2013, 13:39
+2 -1
Is AZB also rethinking and restructuring? Or, unlike LL, they would not acknowledge it?

Kian: It will be interesting to see an analysis on partners biglaw firms have lost or gained in last one year.
CC 6 Aug 2013, 11:23
+8 -2
Like Bar and Bench, please do mention about his father and father-in-law. Relevant to the story. If my father and father in law were judges, I too would not be sitting in front of a desk at AZB.
Hua 6 Aug 2013, 18:11
+21 -25
Big gain for azb
jury 7 Aug 2013, 12:51
+7 -9
How and why??
Jurys 8 Aug 2013, 07:50
+14 -16
Check with anyone at azb
xyz 11 Aug 2013, 05:17
+20 -10
Big loss for azb
JAI 6 Aug 2013, 22:05
+16 -2
Another boutique from an nls guy... This bubble of boutique law firms will burst soon....
Anon 7 Aug 2013, 07:43
+0 -4
Normally I would agree with JAI but not in this case. Litigation is in any event easier to start off on one's own than corporate. Second, Shreyas has the right connections.
bemused 7 Aug 2013, 11:00
+1 -1
why attribute the potential success of shreyas to his connections
BZA 7 Aug 2013, 12:30
+7 -2
[quote name="bemused"]why attribute the potential success of shreyas to his connections[/quote]

Because that what he is all about
Confused Zeus Says . . . . 7 Aug 2013, 14:08
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[quote name="BZA"][quote name="bemused"]why attribute the potential success of shreyas to his connections[/quote]

Because that what he is all about[/quote]


Really? Did Shreyas' "connections" write the NLS entrance exam for him and help him complete his course?

Let's give credit where it's due. Well done, Shreyas.
Amused 7 Aug 2013, 13:04
+5 -4
Why not? Litigation is one area where connections maketh the man and talent does not ensure much!
Sparrow 10 Aug 2013, 06:45
+7 -1
Yeah, that's why we have had legal luminaries like Nani Palkhivala, Soli Sorabjee, Fali Nariman, YV Chandrachud who didn't have any background.

The truth is that, in both corporate and litigation, it always helps if you have connections which provides a starting platform. But that will only give you some initial headstart -- but after that its only merit. In corporate, Zia and Cyri/Shardul, had good conections which surely must have helped them initially. But what they are today is also becasue they had some mettle in them. Likewise, in litigation, Salve, Rohatgi, Rohinton -- all had godfathers, but do you think they are today only because of those connections? Connections can only get you to a certain distance, but not beyond that.
lily 10 Aug 2013, 07:54
+0 -0
Well said Sparrow
Guest 11 Aug 2013, 11:41
+13 -3
Hmmmmmmm. why has such a senior lawyer in an allegedly "biglaw" firm left, following the footsteps of many of his peers like Vinita MG, Vishnu Jerome, Yogesh Bhattarai. Clearly something nasty is happening in the firm. Would be interesting to know what that is.