From the Business: Yaffa Meeran is a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on complex trial litigation in federal and state courts across the country. Yaffa also maintains an active pro bono practice.I am one of the most distinguished Legal Services in Washington, DC. I specialize in Bankruptcy Attorne...
From the Business: Manu Bansal seasoned patent law professional with over a decade of experience and a strong technology background, Manu Bansal, Ph.D. assists clients in building and managing quality patent portfolios attuned to their business goals. He prepares, prosecutes, and litigates patents in high-tech areas, including multimedia coding and streaming, wirele...
From the Business: Isha focuses her practice on patent litigation matters in federal district court. She handles matters across a range of technologies – including small molecule drugs, biologics, medical devices and more. Her experience extends to all aspects of litigation, from pre-suit counseling to trial. She has represented clients in venues throughout the US, ...
From the Business: AMIT BHATLA focuses his practice on high-stakes patent litigation. Amit received his law degree from the George Washington University Law School, graduating with highest honors and Order of the Coif. Amit earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas, where he also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Environmen...
From the Business: Kaushik Goswami is a member of the Employment & Benefits practice primarily helping clients on fiduciary issues related to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Kaushik advises clients on ERISA issues arising in structured finance transactions, including note and certificate offerings. He counsels sponsors of ...
From the Business: Sonal Majmudar is a partner in Mayer Brown's Washington DC office and a member of the Tax practice. Prior to joining Mayer Brown she was former international tax counsel with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Sonal provides comprehensive representation and counseling on transfer pricing matters, including negotiating advance pricing agreements (...
From the Business: Ronak D. Desai is a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles offices and firm-wide leader of Paul Hastings’ Congressional Investigations practice. A seasoned international investigations, enforcement defense, and compliance attorney, Ronak has extensive experience in both ...
From the Business: TD is a is a technology strategist who combines technical and legal training to focus on patent litigation and post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office including inter partes review (IPR) and patent reexamination. TD has deep-seated knowledge of technologies based on his engineering backgrounds in the industry and academia. TD’s indus...
From the Business: He has represented major U.S. and foreign banks in civil and criminal enforcement matters relating to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the federal criminal anti-money laundering (AML) statutes, and a wide range of governance, control framework, safety and soundness, and consumer and fair lending issues. He also counsels clients on BSA/AML regulations, ...
From the Business: Arjun Garg, formerly the Chief Counsel and Acting Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and also the Chief Counsel of the Federal Transit Administration, is an authority on transportation law and advises clients across a variety of aerospace and other transportation issues. I am one of the most distinguished Legal Servi...
From the Business: Arjun represents healthcare facilities in matters regarding Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance reimbursement. His practice focuses on Medicaid audit defense and client counseling regarding denials, recoupments, and improper payments. Additional experience includes administrative appeals before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, alter...
From the Business: Shayan Karbassi is an associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He assists clients with a broad range of cybersecurity and national security matters, including national security related government investigations, antiterrorism claims, cyber and data security incident response, pre-incident cybersecurity preparedness, and cybersecurity and dat...
From the Business: Shahriar (Shah) Raafi joined Caplin & Drysdale as an Associate in the firm’s Complex Litigation and Bankruptcy practice groups in 2021. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Raafi practiced commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense at an international law firm in New York City. Mr. Raafi represents individuals, corporations, and nonprof...
From the Business: Arjun is an Associate at Fragomen’s Washington, DC office, where he collaborates with large clients to develop and scale their immigration programs. He advises clients on all aspects of immigration law and is particularly experienced in the PERM labor certification process. He also has experience working on complex immigration matters, such as PER...
From the Business: Aarushi is a Special Legal Consultant in the Washington, DC office. She has experience in international commercial arbitrations across a range of industries, including oil and gas, mining, and intellectual property. Prior to joining Three Crowns, Aarushi clerked with Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud at the Supreme Court of India, where s...
From the Business: Yohan Balan works primarily with Covington’s White Collar Defense & Investigations and Anti-Corruption teams on a wide range of matters. He assists institutions and individuals in high-stakes white collar investigations requiring representations before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Federal Government a...
From the Business: Junaid Chida offers counseling, structuring, negotiating and deal management guidance on M&A and financing transactions in the domestic and international markets for a wide range of energy, infrastructure, and transportation assets. With a dominant position in the renewable and clean energy space, Junaid has represented tax-equity investors a...
From the Business: Annapreet Virk is a corporate associate in O’Melveny’s San Francisco office. Anna’s experience includes advising a semiconductor company in its convertible senior notes offering, securing a new credit agreement for a soft service provider, and reviewing cloud service agreements for a leading consumer technology company. Anna also devotes time to...
From the Business: He has extensive experience in all phases of domestic and international patent prosecution, having prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in computing, electrical, and mechanical technologies. Sonny uses his background in computer science to work directly with corporate counsels, chief technology officers, and inventors to identify valuable IP...
From the Business: Christopher Thomas advises clients on developing patent strategies tailored to meeting business goals and analyzing patent-related risks and opportunities. Chris focuses on advancing the business goals of clients in the United States and abroad by implementing strategies that position and protect his client’s business expansion and growth. His pra...
From the Business: Raj has considerable experience in telecommunications, optics, semiconductors, wireless technologies, neural networks, artificial intelligence, machine learning, signal processing, networking, smartphones, communication protocols, cryptography, lithography, material properties of semiconductors and metals, biometrics, video game technologies, soft...
From the Business: Darshan Chulani joined Caplin & Drysdale’s Washington, D.C. office in 2023 as an Associate in the Private Client practice. Prior to joining the firm, he served as Senior Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service in the Office of Chief Counsel. Mr. Chulani provides comprehensive and personalized tax and estate planning advice to high-net-worth in...
From the Business: Mahaa Mahmood is a skilled legal advisor renowned for her expertise in international law, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. With a client-focused approach, she offers comprehensive legal solutions to individuals, businesses, and organizations operating across diverse industries and jurisdictions. Mahaa specializes in structuring cross-...
From the Business: Samriti Madan focuses her practice on complex securities enforcement and litigation matters. She was a summer associate at WilmerHale in 2016. Prior to rejoining the firm, Ms. Madan clerked for the Honorable J. Frederick Motz of the US District Court for the District of Maryland. She was also a student mediator for the University of Maryland Franc...
From the Business: Trial lawyer Vivek Chopra represents policyholder-clients in coverage litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts and domestic and foreign arbitrations, and has recovered over $1.5 billion for clients in these actions. Vivek also regularly counsels clients regarding policy language, renewal of insurance, and securing payment of clai...
