India’s IndusLaw has hired yet another partner in Delhi, with the addition of corporate specialist Pratyush Khurana from Link Legal India Law Services, where he was an associate partner.
Since the start of the year, IndusLaw has hired two other partners in its office in the Indian capital - Unnati Agarwal and Shashi Mathews.
With more than a decade of experience, Khurana advises multinational companies and start-ups on transactions, M&Adomestic and cross-border funds, and general corporate matters.
With Khurana’s hire, IndusLaw now has 49 partners.
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Mumbai-based boutique White and Brief has hired Manu Varghese as partner and head of its general and corporate practice from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, where he spent more than 13 years.
Pratyush Khurana joins Indus from Link Legal
IndusLaw has hired
Link Legal India Law Services associate partner
Pratyush Khurana as a partner in its Delhi-based corporate team, according to a press release from the firm.
The 2008 Symbiosis university law graduate had joined Link Legal in 2017 from Khaitan & Co, where he had been a senior associate.
Co-founding partner Gaurav Dani said in the statement: “Pratyush will add further strength to our PE/VC and M&A practice in Delhi, which is now a niche and strong practice offering of the firm.
Khurana added: “I have seen the firm grow from strength to strength and create a niche for itself in the M&A, PE & VC space and I hope to contribute further to it.”
SEBI Press Release No. 61/2020 dated December 16, 2020
In order to recalibrate the Minimum Public Shareholding (MPS)
requirements for listed companies which are presently going under
Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP), the Board of the
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) concluded a meeting
on December 16, 2020 wherein certain key decisions were taken to
facilitate the shareholding norms for such listed companies which
seek to continue to remain listed post the CIRP.
Presently, during CIRP where the Public Shareholding falls
below 10%, such listed companies are required to bring the Public
Shareholding to at least 10% within a period of 18 months from the
said date and to 25% within 36 months. In this background, the
From one to four partners in three months, White & Brief targets more growth into full-service
The 2018-founded Mumbai-based disputes firm
White & Brief, which was started by former Ram Jethmalani junior
Nilesh Tribhuvann, is going full-service and has hired two lateral partners and promoted one, with significantly more expansion pledged for the coming months and several big-name clients such as Apple and Indigo to boot.
In addition to the three salaried partners who had now joined, Tribhuvann said that another four salaried partners would be joining by March and April 2021 from top tier firms, bolting on practices such as banking and finances, taxation, infrastructure, media and entertainment and real estate.