Senior Partners at Argus Partners R Sudhinder and Abeezar Faizullabhoy were appointed as members of the Executive Committee of the firm during the Equity Partners meeting held on May 16.

Sudhinder has been with the firm since April 2007, while Faizullabhoy joined the firm in February 2019 from HSA Advocates. They have a cumulative experience of close to 60 years.

The duo join Managing Partner Krishnava Dutt as members of the Executive Committee.

Sudhinder was admitted to the Bar in 1989 and has expertise of over 30 years in different areas of legal practice including indirect taxation, contracts, competition law, foreign trade laws, anti-dumping laws, corporate, constitutional and administrative laws.

Before joining the firm in 2007, Sudhinder practiced law as an independent counsel. Prior to that, he worked as a junior advocate under Senior Advocate AN Haksar.

Faizullabhoy has over 28 years of experience in the dispute resolution, arbitration and corporate commercial practice areas. He started his career with Mulla & Mulla and Craigie, Blunt & Caroe and then went on to work with J Sagar Associates before serving a stint as Group CEO of an investor in the energy sector. He later came back to the profession and joined HSA Advocates as Partner.

In his corporate commercial practice, Faizullabhoy has advised on joint ventures, angel/PE investments, shareholders agreements, share purchase agreements, technology transfer agreements and diverse advisory work on Foreign Direct Investment and under company law, Foreign Exchange Management Act, and other statues.

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