March 16, 2019:

Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) Counsel P Ram Kumar has been promoted to the firm’s partnership in its competition team in Delhi.

He is now the firm’s first Delhi partner.

Kumar had joined TTA in 2011 and had been promoted to Managing Associate in 2014, and counsel in 2018.

He is 2007 law graduate from the School of Excellence in Law, India with an LLM in international business laws from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a degree in competition economics from King’s College, London.

He specializes in merger control, cartel and abuse of dominance cases.

TTA Partner Feroz Dubash commented in a statement, “Ram has been a very important part of the competition team since he joined in 2011 and we are excited to welcome him into the partnership as our first competition law partner in Delhi. He has been involved in some of the most complex and innovative transactions in this space and will be a great addition to the partnership.”

Talwar Thakore & Associates’s partnership has now grown to a total of 7, with a total headcount of 40 in Mumbai & Delhi.

TTA’s collaboration with Executive Chairman Vinod Dhall in the competition space in Delhi had ended in Feb, with Dhall joining Platinum Partners.

Kumar had taken over the management of the competition practice after Dhall’s departure.

TTA said in a statement that his promotion “reflects the firm’s commitment to growing our competition practice and continuing to provide clients with the quality legal advice they expect from the firm”.

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Source: Legally India