Amarchand bolsters partnership with 13 promotions

Amarchand Mangaldas has today announced its 2012 partner promotions. Amarchand has promoted 13 of its Principal Associates to salaried partnership across Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. The firm has promoted 6 to partnership in Delhi, 6 in Mumbai and 1 in Bangalore.

This year’s promotions also include the next generation of Shroff family entering the Amarchand partnership. Both Naval Chopra and Shweta Shroff Chopra (leading the competition team in Delhi along with Senior Partner Pallavi Shroff) have been promoted to partnership.

The other newly promoted partners at the Delhi office include Nitin Masilamani from the Intellectual Property team, Jasleen Oberoi and Ruchi Mahajan from the Litigation team and Vidyut Gulati from the Projects team.

(Pictured Left to Right: Jasleen Oberoi, Naval Chopra, Shweta Shroff Chopra, Ruchi Mahajan and Nisha Uberoi)

The Mumbai promotions include Gaurav Gupte from Capital Market team, Nisha Uberoi from Competition team, Amita Choudary, Aysswarya Murthi and Ipsita Dutta from Corporate team and Indranil Deshmukh from Dispute Resolution team.

(Pictured Left to Right: Ipsita Dutta, Indranil Deshmukh, Aysswarya Murthi, Amita Choudary and Gaurav Gupte)

In Bangalore office, Rashmi Pradeep from the Corporate team has been promoted to partnership.

All the candidates have been selected after several rounds of interview with the firm’s Management Committee.

(Pictured Left to Right: Rashmi Pradeep, Vidyut Gulati and Nitin Masilamani)

Managing Partner Shardul Shroff, citing the new selection process, commented, “After the BCG engagement last year and announcement of Version 3.0 last October, the partner selection process has been comprehensively revamped. All the candidates have been selected after several rigorous rounds of evaluation by the Managing Partners and the firm’s Management Committee. The move also reflects the “2 wheels of the bicycle” concept through promotion of both family and non family talent”.

Managing Partner Cyril Shroff in the press release said, “These promotions reflect the firm’s continued investment across its key practice areas in direct response to client needs and the firm’s commitment to the Version 3 plan evolved. It also reflects its primary strategy of organic growth and its endorsement of deep internal bench strength. This gives us the confidence that we are firmly on track to achieve our ambitions set out as part of BCG engagement, which would make us one of the largest in Asia. Clearly Amarchand offers the best career opportunity for talented youngsters”.

The partnership is effective from April 1, 2012 and this takes the total number of partners at the firm to 68.

In addition, we believe that the firm has also recruited two lateral partners.