From the Business: Niharika Reddy is a corporate attorney who focuses her practice on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate counseling and representation. She assists in drafting various transaction documents, including purchase agreements, employment agreements, non-disclosure and confidentiality documents. I am one of the most disting...
From the Business: Ariba Ahmad focuses on patent and trademark litigation while growing her knowledge beyond IP litigation by working on trademark matters along with Foley’s Trademark, Copyright & Advertising Practice. She is a member of the firm’s IP Litigation Practice. Before joining Foley, Ariba worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Sara Elizabeth...
From the Business: Sameer Ghaznavi is a partner in the firm's Chicago office. He represents private and public companies, developers, utilities and sponsors in relation to the development, strategic acquisition and sale of energy and infrastructure projects in the United States and internationally. Prior to starting his own practice, Sameer held legal and corporate ...
From the Business: Ranjit Hakim is a corporate lawyer in Mayer Brown’s Chicago and Northern California offices. He draws on his broad transactional and litigation experience to offer clients a first point of contact for a wide range of legal services. In the transactional space, Ranjit focuses on complex commercial deals involving corporate venture capital investmen...
From the Business: Hari Vutukuru is an associate in the Private Funds practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, based in New York. He plays a pivotal role in representing private investment fund sponsors, focusing on the formation, structuring, and negotiation of their investment funds. His expertise lies in guiding fund sponsors through the complexities of creati...
From the Business: Suchitra Paul Financial & Legal Services offer a very personal and holistic approach to meet your individualized needs. This approach empowers our clients with comprehensive solutions designed to address any and all levels of complexity in wealth management. We work hand-in-hand with you to develop an approach, tailored to your needs, which in...
From the Business: Drishti Law is a forward-thinking law firm dedicated to providing comprehensive legal services across a range of practice areas. The firm is built on a foundation of integrity, client-centered solutions, and in-depth legal expertise. Drishti Law offers services in areas such as corporate law, intellectual property, commercial litigation, real esta...
From the Business: Apurv Gaurav is a USPTO-registered lawyer and a senior counsel in the IP Transactions and Patent Prosecution group at Norton Rose Fulbright. Apurv is passionate about helping his clients form, protect, enforce and utilize patents, data rights, and other IP assets in a manner that advances his clients' long-term business strategy. Leveraging his te...
From the Business: Bala Venkatakrishnan is an associate in the Global Antitrust Practice of White & Case. Bala's practice supports clients in complex class action disputes, as well as government investigations in both domestic and foreign jurisdictions, with a focus on the technology, retail, and oil and gas industries. His legal experience includes deposition p...
From the Business: SURESH ADVANI focuses his practice on federal income tax matters. Suresh represents domestic and foreign corporations involved in mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, spinoffs and other divisive transactions, financial products, asset securitizations, restructurings of financially-troubled corporations and partnerships, and f...
From the Business: Raj Patel concentrates his practice on construction, infrastructure, leasing, and supply chain transactions. As a US and UK qualified lawyer, Raj has advised on complex construction, infrastructure, leasing, and commercial transactions across the academic, automotive, aviation, oil and gas, renewables, office and industrial, sports stadium, an...
From the Business: Amal Law Group, LLC is situated in Chicago, Illinois. Our initial goal was simply to create a full service law firm. Instead, we came to realize we had created something much bigger: the largest all Muslim women law firm in the US. Meeting your legal needs with personalized attention and affordability. We look forward to serving clients of any rel...
From the Business: Karim Pirani is an associate in the firm’s Chicago office. He practices in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation group.Karim earned his J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he graduated first in his class, summa cum laude and served as Research Editor for the Duke Law Journal. Karim earned his B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, in both His...
From the Business: Rajat Khanna is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Chicago office, and his practice focuses on high-stakes patent litigation. He has represented a variety of technology companies in federal court, at the ITC, and in AIA proceedings before the USPTO. Rajat’s cases have involved a wide range of technologies, including digital rights management (DRM), d...
From the Business: Srinithi Narayanan Financial & Legal Services offer a very personal and holistic approach to meet your individualized needs. This approach empowers our clients with comprehensive solutions designed to address any and all levels of complexity in wealth management. We work hand-in-hand with you to develop an approach, tailored to your needs, whi...
From the Business: SwagatUSA, Accordingly, this can cause foreign workers and their families precious time and money and further complicate their ability to obtain U.S. citizenship. However, an immigration attorney is not on the side of the government. Instead, they work to help immigrants and their loved ones navigate the overly complex immigration process. Often l...
From the Business: Juhi Patel joined our New Lawyers Group (NLG) in 2022. The NLG provides our newest lawyers with the opportunity to gain exposure to different practice areas and lawyering styles before making a commitment to a specific practice. Individuals in the NLG may focus on a particular area of practice, or compare practices, during their first year with Jo...
From the Business: MEENA DATTA is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and global co-leader of Sidley’s Healthcare practice. She also leads the Chicago Healthcare group and the firm’s Digital Health Initiative, and is a member of the firm’s Global Life Sciences Leadership Council. She was recognized as Regulatory Attorney of the Year: Pricing and Reimbursement...
From the Business: DEEPA CHARI focuses her practice on commercial litigation. Prior to joining Sidley, Deepa attended Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she was a Kirkland and Ellis Scholar, served as the deputy editor-in-chief of the Northwestern University Law Review, and worked in the appellate division of the MacArthur Justice Center. She won the runner-...
From the Business: Suyash Agrawal has handled high-stakes trial and appellate litigation in jurisdictions around the country for over two decades. In 2023, Suyash was honored as one of Chicago’s top lawyers in the “complex, high-stakes world of litigation” by Crain’s Chicago Business. That special feature identified 74 lawyers who “have made a measurable and specifi...
From the Business: The Uma Law Group provides a comprehensive range of business services. Because we are a personalized law firm, we will work closely with you to determine which approach is best for resolving your complex legal issues. If you’re operating a company, whether it’s a start-up or well-established, we can help. We have tech-savvy attorneys who specializ...
From the Business: Tushar Vaidya is a seasoned litigator with decades of experience in the consumer products, legal, management consulting, health care, and banking and finance sectors. He focuses his practice on eDiscovery litigation, strategy, and consulting. With more than 15 years representing organizations in the consumer products, energy and infrastructure,...
From the Business: Tejas is immigration counsel at Franczek Radelet P.C., leading the firm’s immigration practice and serving as a member of the Labor & Employment and Higher Education Practice Groups. Tejas is committed to helping employers and individuals comply with the complex requirements of U.S. immigration law. As employers increasingly seek to hire and reta...
From the Business: Ati Khatri focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, financial transactions, and general counsel matters, working very closely with founders and investors alike. He assists privately-held companies, technology firms, banks, lenders, executives, investors, and investor groups in all areas of transactional, business planning, and general cor...
From the Business: Payal Patel focuses her practice on business and finance, mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, and other complex commercial transactions. She works with an array of clients including privately held companies and their investors, family-owned businesses, start-ups, executives, venture capitalists, private equity funds, and lenders. Pay...
