Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has added Jay Parikh as a Partner in its Corporate Practice with his team. He will be working out of the firm’s Mumbai and Ahmedabad offices. Parikh has over 18 years of considerable experience in M&A, joint ventures, private equity, banking & finance, restructurings & insolvency, capital markets and general corporate advisory. His core practice area is Corporate Finance and M&A that involves structuring, negotiating and documenting financing transactions at all business stages. Parikh also advises Private Equity funds on investment transactions, including those involving listed companies. He graduated from NUJS, Kolkata in 2006, and had started his career at erstwhile Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co (AMSS) Mumbai. The firm has also added Alok Sonker as a Partner in its Corporate Practice, along with his team. They will be working out of Mumbai, Ahmedabad and GIFT City offices. With over 15 years of experience, Sonker focuses on general corporate advisory and transactional matters, which mostly include Private Equity (fund set-up and transactions) and M&A transactions. He has a keen interest in economics and geo-strategy, and has spent majority of his time in sharpening his knowledge and skills in relation to the same. Sonker graduated in 2006 from Lucknow University, and completed his LLM in 2008 from National Law School of India University Bangalore. Moreover, the firm has added Mohit Gogia as a Partner in its Corporate Practice. He will be based in New Delhi. Gogia has over 18 years of experience, and has been leading on M&A, private equity and cross-border investment transactions, and on general corporate matters. He is admitted to practice law in India and New York, and has worked with S&R Associates in New Delhi as an Equity Partner, and at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York. Gogia graduated in 2005 from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, and completed his LLM in 2006 from New York University School of Law. He is an Honorary Adjunct Professor of Law and Professor of Corporate Legal Practice at Jindal Global Law School, and has previously been a visiting faculty at National Law University Delhi, where he taught a seminar course on “Transactional Mergers and Acquisitions”.
