IndusLaw continues Bombay boom, hires Haresh Jagtiani’s Petrushka Dasgupta

Monday, 4 November 2019 By Legally India Law firms

Petrushka Dasgupta joins Indus from Haresh Jagtiani

IndusLaw has hired Haresh Jagtiani & Associates partner Petrushka A Dasgupta to further grow its Mumbai office.

She specialises in corporate litigation, insolvency, dispute resolution, real estate and aviation finance, and is the 11th partner to join Indus’ Mumbai office.

That nearly puts the Mumbai office within reach, in terms of partnership headcount, of its other main offices: Delhi has 16 partners and Bangalore 14 (Hyderabad has two partners).

Dasgupta’s career spans stints across in-house and law firms, beginning with Jet Airways between 2002 and 2007, followed by a two year stint as aviation head at AZB & Partners, according to her Linked-in profile.

Between 2010 and 2011 she was of counsel at BMR Legal in aviation finance and after that, until 2014, she was VP Legal at engineering and construction company Vectra Group.

Dasgupta had re-joined private practice at Haresh Jagtiani in 2014.

We have reached out to Indus and Dasgupta for comment.

Update 14:51: IndusLaw CEO Jayanarayanan NR commented: “We welcome Petrushka to IndusLaw and wish her all the very best in her new role.

“Mumbai is a key growth market for us, and we are committed to growing further in Mumbai, across all practice areas.”

Comments

Dazed and Confused 4 Nov 2019, 09:06

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I haven't had the opportunity to work with or opposite her, so I can only presume her professionalism from her impressive resume, but I can say with certainty that Petrushka Dasgupta is an insanely cool name. #Stravinskyrules

Guest 4 Nov 2019, 12:32

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Actually, there used to be a craze among Indians for a while where children would be given Russian names. There is an advocate (NUJS grad) named Mikhael Mukherjee, while there was an NLSIU grad (tragically deceased) called Alyosha Kumar. Then, names like Natasha and Tanya are still popular on an all-India basis. You also have people in south India with names like Lenin and Stalin (like the politician MK Stalin)

Of course, I do not wish to make assumptions and it could be that Ms Dasgupta is partly of Russian descent.

Guest 4 Nov 2019, 13:13

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The NUJS grad is actually called Mayank. Mikhail is his middle name.

Dazed and Confused 5 Nov 2019, 07:05

I totally get that naming tradition. That's sort of why I'm surprised this is the first Petrushka + Indian Surname I've encountered. Plenty of Lenins, Stalins, etc.. Besides, I like to think it's a reference to Stavinsky's spectacular ballet score, rather than a Nehruvian fondness for a discredited ideology. But I also think that Mishti Doi would make a good name for a Soviet spy, so the exchange can go both ways I suppose.

Guest 4 Nov 2019, 14:27

+6 -1

It's a lovely name!

Kya re kuch bhi 5 Nov 2019, 07:05

+1 -0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)

Yeh ballet ka naam hain

Guest 4 Nov 2019, 20:40

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According to Wikipedia, Petrushka refers to a male jester, derived for the name "Peter".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrushka

Lex Icology 5 Nov 2019, 11:09

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And Peter derives from "rock", so Petrushka's name rocks :)

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