Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has made three new partners and two partner designates with effect from June 5, 2016.

Managing Partner Cyril Shroff also revealed that promotions with respect to the Delhi office would be made post-Diwali this year.

The new Partners are:

• Anand Jayachandran –General Corporate (NUJS – 2007)
• Bharat Budholia – Competition Law (HNLU – 2009)
• Hiral Motta – Real Estate (GLC – 2005)

The new Partner designates are: 

• Aditya Mehta – Partner Designate, Dispute Resolution
• Prerak Ved – Partner Designate, General Corporate

In the release, Managing Partner Cyril Shroff commented,

“The evaluation has been very rigorous with a keen focus on business case being the key factor…For our Delhi office, decisions on promotions to partnership will be made after Diwali 2016 along with any future recommendations across India made by the Peoples Committee of the firm.”

In April this year, the firm promoted eight lawyers to partnership, out of which three have resigned. Anu Tiwari and Dhruv Singhal are moving to AZB & Partners along with Ashwath Rau. Himanshu Dodeja is joining Blackstone.

Last month, Competition Partner Nisha Kaur Uberoi too resigned from the firm to join AZB & Partners.

The firm has recently hired Percival Billimoria from AZB & Partners to head the firm’s Delhi office.