SAM & Co. promotes 15, including 11 as partner

SAM & Co. promotes 15, including 11 as partner

Those promoted include lawyers seven each from New Delhi and Mumbai and one from Kolkata

India's leading full-service law firm Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. (SAM & Co.) Thursday announced largescale internal promotions to lawyers as the Partner and Counsel positions.

Those promoted include 11 promotions to Partner and four promotions to Counsel, across its New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata offices. These promoted as Partner include New Delhi –based lawyers Angad Kochhar (Dispute Resolution), Chaitanya Safaya (Dispute Resolution), Rohan Jain (General Corporate), Shruti Sabharwal (Dispute Resolution) and Shrutikriti Kumar (General Corporate); Mumbai-based lawyers Abhishek Parekh, Deepa Rekha, Navruz Vakil, Tanya Uppal and Taranjeet Singh – all of them focus on General Corporate practice. Shiladitya Banerjee is the lone promoted Partner from the eastern metropolis Kolkata. He focuses on General Corporate.

Those promoted as Counsel are New Delhi-based Ankita Bhasin (Indirect Tax) and Shivangi Talwar (General Corporate); Mumbai-based Shivani Sinha (Banking & Finance) and Vaibhav Singh (Dispute Resolution).

"We are delighted to promote our smart, ambitious and talented young people as Partners and Counsels in our New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata offices, as an affirmation of our faith in our brightest and best. We wish each of them all the very best in their new roles," Pallavi Shroff, Managing Partner, SAM & Co. said.

Akshay Chudasama, Managing Partner, SAM & Co. said, "We are proud of each of our newly minted Partners and Counsel, as they demonstrate the excellence that the firm stands for. We look forward to a long and exciting journey ahead in their new roles, as they scale newer heights."

SAM & Co is known globally for its exceptional practices in mergers & acquisitions, private equity, competition law, insolvency & bankruptcy, dispute resolution, capital markets, banking & finance and projects & infrastructure.

With the current round of promotions, it now has 145 Partners with over 690 lawyers associated with the firm through its offices at New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai.