JSA Announces new Practice Chairs

J. Sagar Associates has elected new practice chairs for each of its three-core practice groups - Corporate, Finance and Disputes with effect from April 1, for a three-year term..For the firm's Corporate Practice, JSA has appointed Sidharrth Shankar at the Gurugram office and Vikram Raghani at the Mumbai office..Shankar is a 2001 graduate of the Symbiosis Law University, Pune. He has been associated with JSA for 19 years.Raghani is a 2003 graduate of the Government Law College, Mumbai. He has been associated with JSA for over 19 years..For the firm's Disputes Practice, JSA has appointed Dheeraj Nair at the New Delhi office and Farid Karachiwala at the Mumbai office..Nair is a 2000 graduate of the ILS Law College, Pune. He has been associated with JSA for nearly 17 years.Karachiwala is a 2000 graduate of the Government Law College, Mumbai. He has been associated with JSA for over 4 years..For the firm's Finance Practice, JSA has appointed Aashit Shah at the Mumbai office..Shah is a 2001 graduate of the Government Law College, Mumbai. He holds an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology in 2003. He has been associated with JSA for over 17 years..Commenting on the new Practice Chair appointments, Amit Kapur and Vivek Chandy, the Joint Managing Partners, said:“We are delighted to welcome the new Practice Chairs and look forward to working closely with them to further build and expand on the firm’s practice strength and key sector offerings. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the current practice chairs – Shivpriya Nanda and Sajai Singh for Corporate | Dheeraj Nair (and Varghese Thomas, for the period before he took the Executive Committee member position) for Disputes | and Aashit Shah for Finance, for their sterling efforts in shaping and expanding our offerings across the practices and taking them to greater heights.”.If you would like your Deals, Columns, Press Releases to be published on Bar & Bench, please fill in the form available here.