Hammurabi & Solomon Partners has added Naresh Arora to lead its international desk, the latest in a run of lateral partner hires at Indian firms that includes a disputes lawyer at JSA and a corporate team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.
Naresh Arora has joined Hammurabi & Solomon Partners as senior partner and director of its international desk, Law.asia reports. Arora, who has more than three decades of experience in dispute resolution, corporate and commercial law, regulatory affairs and corporate governance, will lead the desk's work across India, the Middle East and Gulf Co-operation Council jurisdictions, covering cross-border commercial arrangements, international arbitration, infrastructure and investment matters and regulatory issues. He comes from in-house leadership roles, including head of litigation at Altius Telecom Infrastructure, vice president of legal operations at ATC Telecom Infrastructure and vice president of legal and regulatory affairs at Viom Networks. Managing partner Shweta Bharti said the firm was "focused on building a stronger platform to serve businesses across jurisdictions". The firm recently added Arpita Mukherjee and Tripti Vini as senior partners and now has 21 partners.
The hire follows the firm's move into Kolkata in July, when Amrita Pandey joined as a partner in dispute resolution, according to Law.asia. Pandey has more than 16 years of experience appearing before the Calcutta High Court, the National Green Tribunal, the National Company Law Tribunal and other forums, and has represented government departments, public sector undertakings and statutory authorities. With her arrival the firm had 19 partners across nine offices in India.
In October, JSA Advocates & Solicitors added Ankit Jain as a partner in its New Delhi disputes practice, Law.asia reports. Jain, who focuses on infrastructure disputes in renewable energy and engineering, procurement and construction, and on domestic and international arbitration, was previously a partner at Antares Legal and earlier partner-designate at Luthra and Luthra Law Offices.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has recruited Rohan Jain and Kshitij Arora from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas as partners in its general corporate practice in Delhi, as Bar & Bench first reported. Bar & Bench describes Jain as a partner and Arora as counsel at Shardul, which Jain had joined as an associate a decade earlier; Shardul managing partner Pallavi Shroff said: "I wish them all the best." Law.asia reports that the pair moved with a team of two associates and a senior associate, and that Jain, who has more than 15 years of M&A and transactional experience, aims to strengthen the firm's M&A and general corporate practice.
