Mumbai/Hyderabad, July 25, 2025 —

Chandhiok & Mahajan has promoted Nishant Sogani and Zubin Poovathinkal to partner, strengthening its leadership in Mumbai and Hyderabad, respectively.

Based in Mumbai, Sogani brings over a decade of experience in restructuring and insolvency, banking and finance, and general corporate advisory. He regularly advises insolvency professionals, banks, financial institutions, and corporate groups, and has led several of the firm’s most high-profile mandates. His expertise spans insolvency resolution, distressed M&A, debt and corporate restructuring, structured finance, and corporate lending.

Poovathinkal, stationed in Hyderabad, has more than 10 years of courtroom experience at both trial and appellate levels. His practice covers a diverse range of matters including commercial arbitration, criminal defence, tax litigation, insolvency proceedings, and constitutional law.

With these elevations, the firm’s partnership strength rises to 18, with women making up 35% of the partners.

Released: July 25, 2025