Luthra & Luthra Law Offices has promoted Managing Associates Nivedita Tiwari and Sanjeev Kumar from Delhi office and Managing Associate Bikash Jhawar from Mumbai office to partnership. This takes the total number of Partners at the firm to 38..Luthra & Luthra Law Offices has promoted Managing Associates Nivedita Tiwari and Sanjeev Kumar from Delhi office and Managing Associate Bikash Jhawar from Mumbai office to partnership. This takes the total number of Partners at the firm to 38..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Managing Partner Rajiv Luthra said, “We take our career track seriously and nothing shows this more clearly. Sustainable growth requires proportional expansion across rise and these well deserved promotions are just the facts of that strategy”..The firm announced a surprise bonus for five senior partners. Samir Dudhoria, Vijaya Rao, Sundeep Dudeja, Sameen Vyas and Madhurima Mukherjee have been given on option to choose between a BMW, Audi or Mercedes..Rajiv Luthra further added, “In the last two days we deliberated various growth strategies for the firm and we identified different growth potentials in practice areas etc. and five of our partners have been given additional responsibilities going forward keeping that strategy and each of them was presented with BMW for this additional responsibility”..Bikash Jhawar, Mumbai based Partner speaking to Bar & Bench on the promotion said, “I am extremely excited to be elevated and hope to sustain the corporate finance practice with specific focus on corporate finance and international agency-backed project finance”..Bikash is a graduate of National Law School of India University Bangalore. Before joining Luthra, he was working as a Chief Manager at ICICI Bank for over four years. He has been with the firm for almost four years now and has led private equity and corporate M&A transactions for the firm besides helping sustain the firm’s project finance practice..Sanjeev Kumar has been working with the firm for more than six years and handles the litigation practice of the firm. He is a graduate of Campus Law Centre, Delhi University. Previously, he has worked with Justice S.K. Sharma, Justice Rajiv Shakdher and later with Bajaj Group. He said, “I am overjoyed and as an added responsibility I will try to shoulder this to the best of my ability and take the firm forward”..Nivedita has been working with the firm for more than six year. Previously, she was working with AZB & Partners. She is a graduate of Faculty of Law, Delhi University..Varun Pareek, Saleem Hasan Ansari, Anirban Bhattacharya, Kamalpreet Kaur, Pradyuman Dubey, Ravisekhar Nair, Koshy John and Ashish Prasad have been promoted to managing associate level on the litigation side. On the corporate side, Nikhil Sahni, Damini Bhalla and Vasudev Dibbur were promoted to managing associate level..Kaushik Laik, Arun Krishna Dhan, Nirupam Lodha, Divya Vig, Karan Chandhiok and Ankur Jain have been promoted to senior associate level..The firm also announced some internal awards in its meeting held on Saturday..Mumbai Partner Vijaya Rao’s team (Banking and Projects) won the ‘Team of the Year’ award and the team gets a trip to Goa..Partners Amaresh Singh and Alina Arora and Managing Associate Vasudev Dibbur won the ‘Beyond the Call of Duty’ award and each one of them has been gifted an IPad..Managing Associate Manmeet Singh has been awarded the ‘Significant Achievement’ Award..There was a special mention for the IT, finance and administration departments and special awards were given to the support staff. The ‘Star Performers’ in Administration were Amresh Dhari Singh (Senior Vice President – internal audit & operations) and Varsha Saraogi (Administration – Mumbai Office)
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices has promoted Managing Associates Nivedita Tiwari and Sanjeev Kumar from Delhi office and Managing Associate Bikash Jhawar from Mumbai office to partnership. This takes the total number of Partners at the firm to 38..Luthra & Luthra Law Offices has promoted Managing Associates Nivedita Tiwari and Sanjeev Kumar from Delhi office and Managing Associate Bikash Jhawar from Mumbai office to partnership. This takes the total number of Partners at the firm to 38..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Managing Partner Rajiv Luthra said, “We take our career track seriously and nothing shows this more clearly. Sustainable growth requires proportional expansion across rise and these well deserved promotions are just the facts of that strategy”..The firm announced a surprise bonus for five senior partners. Samir Dudhoria, Vijaya Rao, Sundeep Dudeja, Sameen Vyas and Madhurima Mukherjee have been given on option to choose between a BMW, Audi or Mercedes..Rajiv Luthra further added, “In the last two days we deliberated various growth strategies for the firm and we identified different growth potentials in practice areas etc. and five of our partners have been given additional responsibilities going forward keeping that strategy and each of them was presented with BMW for this additional responsibility”..Bikash Jhawar, Mumbai based Partner speaking to Bar & Bench on the promotion said, “I am extremely excited to be elevated and hope to sustain the corporate finance practice with specific focus on corporate finance and international agency-backed project finance”..Bikash is a graduate of National Law School of India University Bangalore. Before joining Luthra, he was working as a Chief Manager at ICICI Bank for over four years. He has been with the firm for almost four years now and has led private equity and corporate M&A transactions for the firm besides helping sustain the firm’s project finance practice..Sanjeev Kumar has been working with the firm for more than six years and handles the litigation practice of the firm. He is a graduate of Campus Law Centre, Delhi University. Previously, he has worked with Justice S.K. Sharma, Justice Rajiv Shakdher and later with Bajaj Group. He said, “I am overjoyed and as an added responsibility I will try to shoulder this to the best of my ability and take the firm forward”..Nivedita has been working with the firm for more than six year. Previously, she was working with AZB & Partners. She is a graduate of Faculty of Law, Delhi University..Varun Pareek, Saleem Hasan Ansari, Anirban Bhattacharya, Kamalpreet Kaur, Pradyuman Dubey, Ravisekhar Nair, Koshy John and Ashish Prasad have been promoted to managing associate level on the litigation side. On the corporate side, Nikhil Sahni, Damini Bhalla and Vasudev Dibbur were promoted to managing associate level..Kaushik Laik, Arun Krishna Dhan, Nirupam Lodha, Divya Vig, Karan Chandhiok and Ankur Jain have been promoted to senior associate level..The firm also announced some internal awards in its meeting held on Saturday..Mumbai Partner Vijaya Rao’s team (Banking and Projects) won the ‘Team of the Year’ award and the team gets a trip to Goa..Partners Amaresh Singh and Alina Arora and Managing Associate Vasudev Dibbur won the ‘Beyond the Call of Duty’ award and each one of them has been gifted an IPad..Managing Associate Manmeet Singh has been awarded the ‘Significant Achievement’ Award..There was a special mention for the IT, finance and administration departments and special awards were given to the support staff. The ‘Star Performers’ in Administration were Amresh Dhari Singh (Senior Vice President – internal audit & operations) and Varsha Saraogi (Administration – Mumbai Office)