Amit Kapur Joins CAM as Senior Partner After 30-Year Run at JSA

Amit Kapur joins Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) as Senior Partner, Head of the firm’s Delhi office, and Chair of its National Disputes Practice, ending a career of over three decades at JSA Advocates & Solicitors. The move marks one of the more significant lateral shifts in India’s disputes and regulatory infrastructure space in recent memory. Kapur’s departure from JSA coincides with the firm’s mandatory retirement age of 65 for equity partners, which JSA‘s Joint Managing Partners confirmed applied to his case.

At CAM, Kapur steps into a triple-leadership role that places him at the centre of the firm’s dispute resolution ambitions and its Delhi operations. His arrival signals CAM‘s intent to deepen its bench strength in regulatory infrastructure at the national level.

Career Journey

Amit Kapur built the bulk of his professional career at JSA Advocates & Solicitors, where he joined in the early years and rose to lead the firm’s Infrastructure and Regulatory practice from 1997. His practice spanned energy — including power, energy transition, and renewables — environment with a focus on climate change, transport, communications, municipal infrastructure, development projects, public procurement, and public-private partnerships.

Over the decades, Kapur advised a wide range of clients: governments, developmental financial institutions such as the World Bank, PPIAF, and the ADB, competition and sector regulators, and major corporates including the Adani Group, Reliance ADA Group, Tata Group, Essar, SembCorp, MB Power, Bajaj Energy, CLP, and Torrent. He also served as Joint Managing Partner of JSA for two consecutive terms between 2019 and 2025, adding firm leadership to his transactional and regulatory work.

His exit from JSA follows the firm’s mandatory retirement policy for equity partners at age 65, a foundational rule that applies without exception across the partnership.

What the Firm Said

Confirming Kapur‘s resignation, Vivek K. Chandy and Amar Gupta, Joint Managing Partners of JSA Advocates & Solicitors, said:

“We wish Amit success in his future endeavours. The Firm has a mandatory retirement age of 65 years which applies across all Equity Partners without exception. As Amit was due to retire soon as per the Firm’s foundational policy, we have a stellar team in place for the Regulatory Infrastructure practice in Delhi and Mumbai. They will continue to service our Clients across the full spectrum of regulatory infrastructure matters. We thank Amit for his contribution to the Firm and wish him the best for his future endeavours.”

Strategic Significance

Kapur‘s appointment gives Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas a seasoned hand with deep relationships across government, multilateral institutions, and blue-chip corporates in the infrastructure and energy sectors. As Chair of the National Disputes Practice and Head of the Delhi office, he is positioned to anchor the firm’s regulatory and disputes strategy at a time when India’s energy transition and infrastructure pipeline are generating increasing legal complexity. His three-decade specialisation makes him a material addition to CAM‘s leadership.

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