Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has elevated 18 lawyers to its partnership. The promotions are effective from May 1, 2026. The partners, inducted into the partnership across various practice groups including corporate practice, disputes practice and capital markets practice.
In corporate practice, CAM has elevated Abhilasha Malpani and Anirud Sudarsan, Ayushi Toshniwal, Shruthi Ashok, Subhankar Pasalapudi, Supriya Aakulu, Krithika Radhakrishnan, (employment practice) and Arpita Sengupta (Digital+ | TMT practice).
Malpani focuses on M&A and Private Equity with extensive experience on transactions and advisories in the listed space, ranging across sectors such as banking and financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, cement and mining, media and infrastructure.
Sudarsan has over 9 years of experience advising global insurers, PE sponsors, banking groups, and promoter conglomerates on insurance M&A, FDI structuring, IRDAI regulatory advisory, and insurer capital markets transactions.
Sengupta has worked on transactions, contracting and advisory matters across the Digital+ | TMT sector, including AI, privacy, cybersecurity and intellectual property, and support key domestic and global clients of the Firm.
Toshniwal focuses on M&A with a sector-agnostic approach and has worked extensively in both buy and sell side representations. As part of her advisory practice, she regularly advises on corporate laws and foreign exchange laws.
Radhakrishnan focuses on range of labour and employment law matters with specific expertise in Investigations, employment disputes, CXO appointments and exits, employee movements and benefits in complex transactions.
Ashok has experience in venture capital and private equity transactions and has advised on complex transactions in regulated sectors. She has experience in and has deep domain knowledge ranging from SaaS, Fintech, Agri-Tech, and Edu-Tech to FMCG, and defence landscapes.
Pasalapudi advises private equity and venture capital funds on the complete life cycle of their India facing investments, spanning entry structuring and approvals, portfolio governance, and private and public exits. He has transactional experience across sectors, with a focus on real estate (warehousing, data centres, retail and commercial), waste management, manufacturing, pharma / healthcare, electric vehicles, and education.
Aakalu works on range of general corporate matters, with a special focus on corporate restructuring, multi-jurisdictional M&A and PE/VC M&A. Her work is sector agnostic. She has primarily advised clients across the IT/ITES, financial services, healthcare, consumer & retail and manufacturing sectors.
In disputes practice, CAM has promoted Darshan Furia, Samhita Mehra, Soumya Dasgupta, Utkarsh Kumar. Elevations in finance practice included promotions to partnership of Arunkumar Venugopalan (projects), Kush Wadehra (financial services and financial institutions group), Monil Chheda (insolvency and restructuring) and Sohrab Kharadi (Project Finance).
Furia has over a decade of experience in commercial litigation, arbitration and contentious securities disputes –combining rare legal depth with CFA-level financial fluency. He has experience in handling complex commercial disputes, regulatory investigations, quasi-judicial and settlement proceedings. He regularly appears before courts, tribunals and authorities across India.
Mehra has nearly a decade of experience in general litigation and arbitration emanating from high value contractual and commercial disputes. She has acted for clients (conglomerates, PE funds, banks) across sectors in disputes arising in connection with contractual breaches, public law matters, infrastructure, shareholder disputes, family disputes, employment, real estate and securities.
Dasgupta has specific experience in Corporate and Commercial Disputes (Contractual breaches, damages claims, trust disputes, shareholder remedies, corporate governance issues for listed companies, voluntary liquidation, intellectual property rights), White Collar Criminal Defence, Public Law Claims (constitutional challenges, writs against public authorities), and Sectoral Litigation (Mining, Telecom, Technology, Consumer Protection, Employment, Environment).
Kumar’s practice spans across commercial litigation, domestic and cross-border arbitration, and complex corporate disputes, with a core focus on shareholder and boardroom matters. His experience includes post-transaction, joint venture, contractual, governance, and regulatory-overlay disputes across financial services, technology and digital businesses, infrastructure and construction, power and energy, industrials, and diversified business groups.
Venugopal advises sponsors, developers and multinational corporations on the structuring, negotiation and execution of large-scale infrastructure projects, spanning sectors such as energy (including renewables and conventional power), data centres, mining, petrochemicals, transport and logistics, among others.
Wadhera works on transactional and advisory projects across financial services sector including domestic/ cross-border M&A, licensing applications, data law and governance. He has been working with regulatory bodies like RBI, SEBI and IRDAI.
Chedda specialises in strategic resolutions, enforcements, restructuring and insolvency related assignments. He also has experience in special situations private credit transactions, with a focus on the real estate sector.
Kharadi regularly advises leading Indian financial institutions, banks and corporates in India and overseas on a broad range of financing transactions including project finance, cross-border financing structure, structured lending and acquisition finance.
Capital markets elevations included Amitpal Singh and Tanvi Kini.
Singh has advised corporates, merchant bankers (both domestic and international), investment funds on IPOs, QIPs, Rights Issues, Medium Term Note Programmes, Debt Offerings, Buybacks and Offer for Sale.
Kini has advised various stakeholders including issuer companies, underwriters and selling shareholders on a wide range of capital markets transactions including initial public offerings, qualified institutions placements, INVITs, scheme listings, rights issues and bulk trades. She has also provided advisory services on securities laws aspects, corporate governance and pre-offering restructuring and considerations.
“I’m delighted to share the promotion of this exceptional group of lawyers. Each of them has earned this through consistent, thoughtful work and a clear sense of responsibility toward clients and colleagues alike. Their progression reflects the kind of culture we are building that values initiative, sound judgment, and a willingness to take ownership. I look forward to the perspective they will bring, the teams they will shape, and the role they will play in where we go from here. I wish them well as they take on their new role,” said Cyril Shroff, managing partner, CAM.
