Khaitan & Co Promotes 13 Lawyers
30 April 2019
Khaitan & Co has promoted 11 principal associates to partners and two principal associates to counsel, effective April 1, 2019, across the firm’s offices in Bengaluru, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi. Of the 11 new partners, six are women, including Smriti Yadav (picture above), a new partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice. Yadav is based in Mumbai, where she is a patent agent, a member of the Bombay Bar Association and the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa.
With 141 partners and 11 counsel today, the overall leadership count at the firm, across practices, is 152.
“It has been a very busy year for us. The market was good from a foreign investment and strategic or distressed M&A perspective,” said Haigreve Khaitan, a senior partner at the firm. “We have been able to showcase our strengths across practices, on a number of complex and unique deals, involving diverse practices. We have emerged as a one-stop firm of choice for most of our clients when it comes to legal services. We are very pleased to work with clients from a variety of sectors, including defense, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, real estate, fin-tech, securities, etc.”
