Platinum promotes NUJS-alum Sunandan Majumdar to partner, grows to 9

Monday, 2 April 2018 By Legally India Law firms

A tiny, 7g nugget of Platinum, yesterday
A tiny, 7g nugget of Platinum, yesterday

Corporate associate Sunandan Majumdar has been promoted to salaried partnership in Platinum Partners’ Mumbai office, effective 1 April 2018. specialises in corporate M&A and is a 2008 graduate of NUJS Kolkata.

He had begun his career with a two-year training contract with Herbert Smith in London. In 2010 he returned to India, joining Platinum.

This takes the total partnership of Platinum Partners’ to 9, with an overall fee-earner headcount of 45. The firm does not externally distinguish between salaried and equity partners.

In October of last year, senior and founding Mumbai partner Nihar Mody had announced his retirement.

2014-Wadia Ghandy lateral Ankit Majmudar is now heading up the Mumbai office. Karam Daulet-Singh continues as managing and co-founding partner in Delhi.

Photo by Rob Lavinsky

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Comments

GT 2 Apr 2018, 12:21
+1 -2
from Associate to Partner. No designation system in between?
Thanos 2 Apr 2018, 14:16
+12 -1
There's RAC and Waiting List.
p.s. Sunandan is a great lawyer and thoroughly nice and deserving chap.
Guest 2 Apr 2018, 15:03
+1 -0
As happens in international law firms and will happen in India if your boss lets them in.
Best thing! 3 Apr 2018, 04:58
+1 -2
That is in fact the best thing. Stupid designations in between hardly matters.
Chai Ki Dukan Wala 2 Apr 2018, 16:01
+1 -0
...ooops.....platinum is still around!
Asking for a friend 2 Apr 2018, 17:33
+3 -0
Do any of Ankit's associates in Bangalore get promoted?
golden 2 Apr 2018, 18:42
+7 -3
Platinum seems to be in the midst of an overhaul - from what i hear, the post-nihar platinum is very different - they still have quality tier 1 clients and excellent lawyers trained to handle complex deals (specially for foreign clients), but now seem to have been dumped with tier 2 work as well (thanks to change in management). Ankit is a good lawyer but his way of managing a firm is very different (mostly for the worse) and his clients are mostly tier 2- i hear they are serviced mostly out of bangalore but i guess its only a matter of time all offices are flooded with such work. i know some people in the firm who used to speak highly of the place. Hope things change for the better. Best to sunandan - i hear he's one of the better ones - specially compared to some other junior partners at the firm.
Sillver 3 Apr 2018, 02:17
+0 -0
Where is Nihar Mody?
That is the pertinent query..... no news of what he is up to post Platinum??
Alias 3 Apr 2018, 04:15
+2 -3
People come. People go. Insititutions survive. Ankit is a star lawyer.
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