Saraf and Partners recently held an Annual Day program to celebrate its one-year anniversary.

The firm promoted and appointed 16 lawyers across practice areas, including Ankur Khandelwal and Anugrah Robin Frey, who joined the firm as Partners from Kocchar & Co and L&L Partners respectively.

Khandelwal was heading the disputes team at Kocchar & Co, while Frey was with L&L Partners for over 5 years as Partner Designate.

The firm also appointed former Partner at Gaggar & Partners Neha Mishra and elevated Arunav Guha Roy and Satyadarshi Kunal as Partner Designates.

5 lawyers were promoted and appointed to Principal Associate and 6 to Senior Associates.

The newly elevated and appointed lawyers are:

Debarpan Ghosh (formerly Senior Associate at L&L Partners) and Navomi Koshy, Nishtha Chaturvedi, Sanya Sud and Swetha Shankaran (S&P) were appointed and promoted to Principal Associate

The firm also promoted 6 of its lawyers to Senior Associate. They are Anina D’Cunha, Ayushi Harsh, Chhavi Jain, Keshav Pareek, Nastassia Khurana and Siddharth H Mataliya to Senior Associate.

9 of the 16 lawyers promoted/appointed are women. The firm also revealed that the gender ratio for its campus recruits in 2022 was 50:50.

Addressing the firm during the annual day celebrations, Founder & Managing Partner Mohit Saraf said,

“The Firm is committed towards inclusivity and diversity and the same reflects in our growth strategies and processes. We are creating a conducive environment where everyone is motivated to give their best. It is paramount that we create an institution that, from top to bottom, belongs to each one of us and everyone has a say in the decision-making process. That’s the exposure we want to offer.”

The firm now has 34 partners and 180 lawyers in all. To accommodate the doubled strength, the firm recently shifted to a new office space of 18,000 sqft. in Mumbai. It also expanded its head office to 20,000 sqft. premises in Delhi NCR, earlier this year.