L&L Partners litigation partnership has hired two new partners while banking and finance has added one other.
The litigation partnership has added two partners.
Former Metropolitan magistrate (from 2013 to 2018), Amrita Tonk had begun her career at L&L in 2010, followed by a secondment at Accenture and then the bench.
According to the firm, “she presided over 26,000 summary and summons triable matters during her tenure”.
Tonk is joining in equity partner Vijay Sondhi’s team.
The second litigation hire is independent Delhi-based advocate Sidhartha Barua, who before going independent in 2019 had been a Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner between 2016 and 2017 followed by BTG Legal. The CLC Delhi University law graduate had also worked at AZB & Partners and P&A Associates.
Barua is joining in the team of Sudhir Sharma.
According to L&L, he “has represented several clients before the Supreme Court of India in landmark matters which laid down the arbitration jurisprudence in the country”.
In the banking and finance practice, L&L has added Girish Rawat as a partner, who was previously a partner at Dhir & Dhir Associates.
Rawat is a 2006 CLC Delhi University graduate and a qualified company secretary.
His specialises in banking & finance, corporate finance, project finance, structured finance, capital market, project & infrastructure, real estate and construction, said the firm.
The hires take L&L’s total aggregate partnership size to 84.
The L&L corporate firm, which is a separate partnership from the litigation firm, has still not concluded or settled the dispute between co-founding partners Rajiv Luthra and Mohit Saraf.
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