J Sagar Associates (JSA) has hired a team of six litigators in Mumbai from Wadia Ghandy & Co, including its head of litigation, Farid Karachiwala.
Karachiwala, who spent more than two decades at Wadia Ghandy, also specialises in real estate. His team includes two principal associates and three associates.
According to the ALB Top 50, JSA is India’s seventh-largest law firm, with approximately 300 lawyers.
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Hong Kong law firm PC Woo & Co. has appointed two new managing partners: Litigator Calvin Chow, who returns after a one-year stint at offshore firm Harneys, and Gary Wong, a long-standing corporate partner at the firm.
U.S. law firm Morrison Foerster has hired private equity and U.S. public M&A expert Xiaoxi Lin as a partner in its Hong Kong office from Linklaters, making its second lateral hire in the private equity space in Asia within just a week.
Global law firm Morrison Foerster has announced that private equity veteran Scott Jalowayski will rejoin the firm as a partner in Singapore. Jalowayski most recently co-chaired the global private equity group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.