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Indian firm Hemant Sahai Associates (HSA) has elevated two lawyers to its partnership in an effort to rebuild its practice after its short-lived merger with fellow Indian firm Paras Kuhad & Associates.
Corporate finance lawyer Navin Syiem and IP lawyer Payla Chawla will be made-up after having joined the firm in April 2010.
Syiem came to the firm after time in-house with GE Commercial Finance in India as well as stints in the Dubai office of UK firm Ashurst and two other large Indian law firms while Chawla came from Reckitt Benckiser India where he was head of legal of legal.  

The appointments bring the total number of partners at the firm to seven and are seen as an critical to a firm that was left considerably weaker after a much-hyped 2009 merger that was to last little more than 3 months.

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