From the Business: Neena Shenai is a seasoned legal professional with over 20 years of legal, compliance and policy experience in global cross-border activities in the private sector and in government. Ms. Shenai focuses her practice on sanctions and export controls, import/customs, CFIUS, M&A due diligence and trade policy. From 2015-2023, Ms. Shenai held sever...
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: 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: 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: Karthik Ravishankar is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He has significant experience facilitating cases through discovery and bringing cases to trial, particularly at the U.S. International Trade Commission, where he has worked on over a dozen investigations. His practice is focused on patent litigation, and ...
From the Business: Megana Sankaran advises clients on medical device matters, with a particular focus on the pre-market clearance and approval of new devices and statistical considerations. Megana has experience in the design and statistical aspects of clinical trials. She has also advised clients about the presentation of clinical data for FDA submissions and the d...
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: 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: Kalyani Joshi is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Her practice focuses on patent prosecution, post-grant proceedings, and patent counseling. Kalyani’s technical experience covers a wide variety of technologies, and is centered on the growing intersection of life sciences and technology industries. She uses her chemical eng...
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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: Rajib regularly represents the leading asset management firms in the world, including recent representations of Apollo, Artisan Partners, BC Partners, Benefit Street, Blackstone, Blue Owl, Carlyle, Cohen & Steers, Coller Capital, Diameter Capital, First Eagle, Golub, HarbourVest, Irradiant Partners, JPMorgan Asset Management, KKR, Lexington Pa...
From the Business: Megan Kunnel Financial & Legal Services is a professional firm that offers a range of financial and legal services to individuals and businesses. Their services may include financial planning, investment management, estate planning, tax preparation, and legal representation in matters such as estate planning, business transactions, and litigat...
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: 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: Tejaswini received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as the Executive Editor on the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law after also serving as the Articles Editor. During law school, Tejaswini served as a Judicial Extern in the Minnesota Judiciary. She also volunteered with the Virginia Innocence P...
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: Raj Ferber PLLC is a Washington, D.C.-based boutique law firm that helps companies prepare for, manage, and recover from cybersecurity incidents and other business compromise risks. ?Drawing on our extensive experience in government, the C-Suite, and AmLaw 50 law firms, we have a uniquely broad understanding of organizations’ risk profiles, as wel...
From the Business: Dhara Satija has nearly 15 years of consulting experience serving healthcare and life sciences clients across an array of issues, including projects ranging from strategy and operations to regulatory and corporate compliance, risk management, and investigation and litigation support. In particular, Dhara has led projects related to: development an...
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: Diva Hollis is an intellectual property litigation partner and registered patent attorney in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on patent infringement litigation, trade secret litigation, and other intellectual property matters involving a wide variety of technologies, including hardware, pharmaceuticals...
