Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Bengaluru-based equity partner Arjun Lall, who had been with the firm for 20 years since graduating from NLSIU Bengaluru in 2001, has now officially left the firm.
In his legal career he had specialised in securities law and capital markets, and had been promoted to head of South India at the firm in 2016.
Bengaluru-based head of employment, Rashmi Pradeep, who joined the firm’s equity in 2018, has taken over as head of South India.
As a Legally India conversations thread had pointed out, his name has not been on the CAM website for a while now.
We understand that he had begun taking a sabbatical from the firm more than a year ago, and has completed 500 hours of yoga teacher training and has already been teaching students.
We have reached out to him for comment and will update this story when we do hear from him.
Managing partner Cyril Shroff commented: “Arjun has been with the firm since over 20 years and whether it’s the pandemic or otherwise has chosen to evolve himself into areas other than law.
“One of these is teaching yoga and also helping people.
“Even though he steps down, he will be associated with the firm in some form and of course as a avid fan of this firm.”
“We are going to miss him a lot, but we do know that he is just a phone call away.”
Update 20:22: Lall commented:
My love and devotion to law, the firm, its management and its people is undiminished! I’ve experienced immense highs, received immense love and respect and forged imperishable relationships over the past 20 years with the firm.
I am blessed and grateful to have worked with the brightest bestest minds and kindest souls in the industry and assisting on some of India’s pathbreaking transactions.
I am equally blessed that the firm, Mrs and Mr Shroff gave me the chance to find an answer to one of life’s imponderable questions of ‘what is my purpose in life?’ - the path of yoga, spiritual learning and seva has chosen me.
I believe that is my dharma and that is the path that I am choosing to follow.
I may not be a part of the firm but the firm will always be a part of me, and I hope that I can continue to help the firm and its people in a wholly different capacity.
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The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master's second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master's house--probably in the basement or the attic--but he still lived in the master's house.
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But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses--the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he'd die. [Laughter] If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze.
If someone came to the house Negro and said, "Let's go, let's separate," naturally that Uncle Tom would say, "Go where? What could I do without boss? Where would I live? How would I dress? Who would look out for me?" That's the house Negro. But if you went to the field Negro and said, "Let's go, let's separate," he wouldn't even ask you where or how. He'd say, "Yes, let's go." And that one ended right there.
[i][b]So now you have a twentieth-century-type of house Negro. A twentieth-century Uncle Tom. He's just as much an Uncle Tom today as Uncle Tom was 100 and 200 years ago. Only he's a modern Uncle Tom. That Uncle Tom wore a handkerchief around his head. This Uncle Tom wears a top hat. He's sharp. He dresses just like you do. [/b][/i]He speaks the same phraseology, the same language. He tries to speak it better than you do. He speaks with the same accents, same diction. And when you say, "your army," he says, "our army." He hasn't got anybody to defend him, but anytime you say "we" he says "we." "Our president," "our government," "our Senate," "our congressmen," "our this and our that." And he hasn't even got a seat in that "our" even at the end of the line. So this is the twentieth-century Negro. Whenever you say "you," the personal pronoun in the singular or in the plural, he uses it right along with you. When you say you're in trouble, he says, "Yes, we're in trouble."
But there's another kind of Black man on the scene. If you say you're in trouble, he says, "Yes, you're in trouble." [Laughter] He doesn't identify himself with your plight whatsoever.
Seriously? Of all individuals and organisations in the world that one could be a fan of, why would anyone choose to be a fan of CAM?
I'm obviously a fan of the firm, but only as long as it keeps sending me those fat-ish paychecks.
Don: “I can’t. I messed everything up. I’m not the man you think I am.”
Peggy: “Don, listen to me. What did you ever do that was so bad?”
Don: “I broke all my vows”. “I scandalized my child. Took another man’s name, and made nothing of it.”
This great scene precedes the Don’s moment of enlightenment and the California seaside yoga scene.
@ Mindfullness This is gold standard in television history, and Don Draper is one of the TV's greatest characters ever.
On another note - Arjun has always been one of the nicer CM senior partners to work for and against the table. All the best Arjun.
keep guessing keeping. Midford House people would definitely know!!
"yoga se hi hoga"
also, he was unmarried for this long? he must be 40+ by now.
Yoga ain't gonna pay much? Unless he is becoming the next Osho.... In which case. ....va va voom!!
Is all ok at CAM?
He also seems to have been sidelined on the FRP front with the recent break up of the practice in CAM resulting in the lions share of the erstwhile FRP practice going to LV, SJ and AT.
One only hopes he realises that this day has come due to SJ and AK presenting the opportunity to LV back in 2018.
Do you know more than Cyril Shroff as well??
But then again, when was the last time any one from the Shroff family actually stepped on the 6th floor for them to know what’s happening to the FRP and Cap Marks teams!
I am sure you can find a better way to spend your time...
I hope you soon have a fancy ashram, with several bikes and a long beard. Law firms can organise their corporate retreats there. The best minds of CAM will work to ensure that you have no tax or FCRA or real estate legal troubles. All the very best!
“I am equally blessed that the firm, Mrs and Mr Shroff gave me the chance to find an answer to one of life’s imponderable questions of ‘what is my purpose in life”
You need someone’s PERMISSION to explore YOUR OWN life ?
Why do law firms create such expectations and behaviour of utter subservience and boot licking.
Does anyone have any info' how that went. Did he eventually gain enlightenment? And find an answer to the sufferings of this wicked world.