Argus Partners appoints Saurav Kumar to lead its Japan and South Korea desk and Swathi Sreenath as partner, both working from New Delhi after CMS IndusLaw.
Argus Partners has appointed Saurav Kumar as head of its Japan and South Korea desk, alongside Swathi Sreenath as a partner, working at the firm's New Delhi office, Law.asia reported. Kumar is a senior partner.
Kumar and Sreenath will work together, with their team, in the corporate and M&A practice and on the Japan and South Korea desk. Both lawyers and their team previously worked at CMS IndusLaw.
Kumar told India Business Law Journal that Argus's vision and expertise will enable them to deliver even greater strategic value to domestic and multinational clients as cross-border dealmaking and outbound and inbound investments into India evolve. On the Japan desk, he said "our practice" has a longstanding track record across the East Asian corridor, regularly advising leading Japanese trading houses and South Korean conglomerates. He said that "in the past" the team had worked on deals including Japan's Sojitz Corporation on a USD400 million biomethane JV platform with Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) and GPS Renewables, and South Korea's CJ Logistics (CJ Group) on consolidating majority control in CJ Darcl Logistics. The source does not say at which firm that work was done.
Kumar has more than two decades of experience and has represented clients in the US, UK, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Singapore as well as Japan and South Korea. Sreenath has more than 10 years of experience and has represented clients in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, France, Germany, the UAE, the US and the UK.
