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Economic Laws Practice (ELP), which recently lost IP partner Tushar Chawla to ALMT Legal and competition expert Samir Gandhi to AZB & Partners, has doubled its equity pool with the promotions of Tarun Gulati, Rohit Jain, Nishant Shah and Naresh Thacker.

Jain and Shah will head the tax team in Mumbai, while Thacker and Gulati will head litigation in Mumbai and New Delhi respectively. They join firm co-founders Vikram Nankani, Suhail Naithani, Sujjain Talwar and managing partner Rohan Shah as equity partners.

“This set of promotions is a tribute to the quality of professionals at ELP. Each of the individuals who have been promoted is an outstanding professional widely acknowledged for his legal and commercial acumen,” said Rohan Shah in a statement. “The growth in the size of the partnership is a reflection of the growth and ambitions of ELP.”

Additionally, the following associate partners were elevated to (non-equity) partnership:

Ajit Tolani – Tax, Pune

Aqeel Sheerazi – Litigation, Mumbai

Darshan Upadhyay- Corporate & Commercial Acquisitions, Mumbai

Jeet Sengupta – Banking & Finance, Mumbai

Madhur Baya – Arbitration & Dispute Resolution, Mumbai

Pranay Bhatia – Tax, Mumbai

Sanjay Notani – International Trade & WTO, Mumbai

Yashojit Mitra – Private Investment, Mumbai

Ranajit Dam is Southeast Asia Editor at ALB. Follow us on Twitter: @ALB_Magazine.

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