JSA strengthens corporate practice with senior lateral hires from CMS IndusLaw

Mumbai: Three equity partners from CMS IndusLaw, Siddharth Manchanda, Rashi Saraf and Minhaz Lokhandwala, are set to join another full-service law firm, JSA Advocates & Solicitors, along with their team of about 18 associates and one retainer partner, Vinit Patwari.

With this addition, JSA Advocates will have over 700 legal professionals, including about 190 partners across its 10 offices in seven cities in India.

“We look forward to having Siddharth, Rashi and Minhaz and their teams on board JSA soon. Their practices and specialist capabilities are a great strategic fit to JSA’s already strong Corporate Practice and should provide JSA’s clients with an added edge,” said Vivek K. Chandy and Amar Gupta, Joint Managing Partners, JSA Advocates & Solicitors, in their joint statement.


All three equity partners are alumni of the Indian Law Society (ILS), Pune. Manchanda and Lokhandwala will join JSA's Mumbai office, while Saraf will be based at the firm’s Bengaluru office, the firm said in its official statement. The trio brings together nearly 50 years of combined experience in private equity, venture capital, capital markets, and M&A transactions.

The development comes as India’s corporate law market undergoes consolidation, with firms competing to secure talent capable of navigating increasingly sophisticated deal structures.

In 2024, Nisha Kaur Uberoi, the national head of the competition law practice at Trilegal, joined JSA with her team of 25 attorneys, including two partners, Harshita Singh Parmar and Pranav Satyam. In the same year, Padmaja Kaul, the litigation and dispute resolution partner of CMS IndusLaw, joined JSA with her team of three lawyers.