Bharat Budholia, who has recently resigned from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in Delhi, is likely to join AZB & Partners in Mumbai.

We have reached out to Zia Mody and Cyril Shroff for comment.

Bharat will be the sole competition partner in Mumbai in the firm’s Competition practice (with Rahul Rai having left the partnership in 2019 for chambers), which is headed by Samir Gandhi.

Bharat was made Partner in 2016 after Nisha Kaur Uberoi left the firm to co-head AZB’s Competition Practice (who now heads Trilegal’s competition practice).

Post that, CAM had hired Avaantika Kakkar from Khaitan to head it’s competition practice and Anshuman Sakle also from Khaitan’s competition practice in Mumbai.

Bharat started his career with Juris Corp after graduating from HNLU, Raipur in 2009. In 2011, he moved to Amarchand Mangaldas and had been with the firm since in Mumbai and Delhi.