Dua Associates has acquired Thakore Jariwala & Associates in Mumbai and SAK & Associates in Chandigarh.
Dua took on 16 professionals from 25-year-old Thakore Jariwala & Associates: equity partners Hetal Thakore and ZA Jariwala, who each have more than 30 years of litigation experience, and non-equity partners Agnes Baradia and Jyoti Ghag who each have over 10 years of practice experience. Dua also added 12 other professionals from Thakore Jariwala and now has three offices in Mumbai, which the firm said would be an “interim arrangement” until it finds a bigger space to accommodate its team.
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Siddhartha Kumar joined the firm in Chandigarh as an equity partner accompanied by five supporting professionals while Aman Bahri, a litigation practitioner with 15 years of experience, came on board as a non-equity partner.
Managing partner CR Dua told India Business Law Journal that Chandigarh “is an affluent growth centre for northern India” and Mumbai would “always require additional strength as our practice grows”. The firm also announced the promotion of five lawyers to its partnership: Amarta Roy and Suneera Tandon (New Delhi), Rayappa Hadagali and PK Shrikara (Bangalore) and S Arjun Suresh (Chennai).
In addition, Munawwar Naseem, who was earlier at Dua, returned to the firm’s New Delhi office after five years of private litigation practice. The firm now has 59 partners and more than 200 professionals.
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