Priyanka Roy, co-founding Partner at Alliance Legal has joined the Mumbai office of IndusLaw as Equity Partner. Alliance Legal, meanwhile, has dissolved its partnership.

Priyanka was a Partner at J. Sagar Associates before setting up Alliance Legal in 2011 with Vishnu Jerome and Ravi Kumar. She is a graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Priyanka will be merging her practice with IndusLaw. Her core areas of practice include Banking and Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and general corporate and regulatory matters.

With Priyanka joining Induslaw’s Mumbai office, the office will have a team of six lawyers headed by Pramod Rao.

Speaking to Bar & Bench, Pramod Rao said, “With Priyanka’s joining, we will strengthen the platform that we are building around banking and finanace, corporate restructuring and insurance practices. The firm as such is already strong in PE and M&A space, which the Mumbai office will also be building on”.

“We are actively looking to increase the number of lawyers in our Mumbai office”, added Pramod.

IndusLaw Bangalore Partner Suneeth Katarki said, “We are getting a lot of banking and finance work because of Pramod, who has been there in the banking circle for a long time. Priyanka is a fabulous fit to further strengthen the banking and finance practice as she has a lot of experience in this area”.

On her joining IndusLaw, Priyanka said, “The decision to join the young, energetic and accomplished team of IndusLaw was an easy one. The core strong tenets of the Firm are something I readily identify with. I am truly excited about being part of IndusLaw”.

The firm has 65 lawyers across all offices including 11 partners.