India’s legal hiring market remained relatively quiet in the past month. The newly opened firm Vritti Law added two partners, while Majmudar & Partners, BTG Legal, and Economic Laws Practice added one each.
Vritti Law Partners, set up in April this year by AZB partners Shameek Chaudhuri and Arvind Ramesh, hired banking and finance lawyer Debashree Dutta as a founding partner in Mumbai. With expertise in financing matters involving projects, infrastructure, acquisitions, loan portfolio acquisitions, securitisations, private credit, real estate, fintech, debt restructurings and insolvency, Dutta joins from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, where she was a partner. She was earlier at AZB as well.
Mumbai-headquartered Economic Laws Practice hired banking expert Vinod Joseph as a partner from Argus Partners. With 25 years of experience, he advises on structuring and setting up private equity and venture capital funds, preparing fund documents and obtaining requisite regulatory approvals for such funds. A former partner at Dua Associates, Joseph also held in-house roles with Global Infrastructure Partners India, IDFC Alternatives, Times Group, and Kotak Mahindra.
Disputes practitioner Mustafa Kachwala was welcomed by Mumbai-based Majmudar & Partners as a partner. With more than 18 years of experience, Kachwala advises on dispute resolution, arbitration and matters related to real property law. Before joining Majmudar, he was a partner at Kachwala Misar & Co. since 2014.
Also joining Vritti Law as a founding partner, but this time in New Delhi, was disputes expert Roopali Singh, who was most recently a senior partner at AZB. She has almost two decades of experience in international and domestic arbitrations, corporate litigation, insolvency, and white-collar crime, with her clients ranging from top corporations to PE funds and government entities. Singh started her career at Dua Associates.
Bengaluru-based intellectual property lawyer Sandhya Surendran became a partner at BTG Legal after it merged with her firm Lexic. She advises clients in the technology, media and entertainment sectors on copyright, licensing and royalties. Before establishing Lexic, Surendran was an in-house counsel at various tech and media companies, including Vice Media Group and Infosys.
