From the Business: Ghanshyam Patel is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois. Mr. Patel graduated from The John Marshall Law School in 2013 earning his Juris Doctor degree. Mr. Patel earned his Bachelor of Arts from Benedictine University in 2010, majoring in International Business and Economics and minoring in Political Science. Mr. Patel grew up in a bu...
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: Sameer Ghaznavi represents utilities, developers and sponsors in relation to the development and acquisition of traditional and renewable energy facilities. Sameer's experience includes the structuring and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements; joint operating agreements; engineering, procurement and construction agreements; operations and m...
From the Business: Rohit Kapuria focuses his practice in general corporate and securities law, representing both public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of securities and SEC disclosure, and corporate governance. His corporate/securities practice also includes handling private offerings under the EB-5 in...
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: Raseq Moizuddin is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Chicago office who focuses on commercial litigation. Specifically, Mr. Moizuddin works on issues involving product liability, alternative dispute resolution, breach of commercial contracts, bankruptcy and creditor's rights, labor and employment and class-action lawsuits. Mr. Moizud...
From the Business: Leena Chopra has a broad-based transactional practice in which she represents institutional, private equity, lender, developer and investor clients in all aspects of the acquisition, disposition, financing, development and leasing of all types of property, including office, retail, multifamily residential, hospitality, industrial and healthcare fa...
From the Business: Amit Mehta is the Global Co-Chair of the Paul Hastings Corporate Department and is a partner in the firm's Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisition practices. Amit’s practice is focused on private equity and corporate transactions, restructuring and distressed transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private securities offerings, SPAC-related t...
From the Business: Seema Patel is Senior Counsel in Chapman’s Illinois Public Finance Department. Seema started her career at Chapman in 2008 after participating in the firm's summer associate program, and she rejoined the firm in 2013 after spending a year traveling the world. Seema serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter’s counsel, purchaser’s coun...
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From the Business: Amina is a 2005 graduate of the University of Florida College of Law. She is admitted to practice law in Florida and Illinois State courts and US District courts in the Southern District of Florida and Northern District of Illinois. Amina is an experienced criminal defense attorney, and started her career at the Public Defender's Office in Miami ...
From the Business: Vinu’s practice focuses on guiding clients through regulatory, administrative, and criminal investigations, civil litigation, and criminal defense. He has represented organizations and individuals across a number of industries including automotive, financial services, energy, healthcare, higher education, marketing, oil & gas exploration, and ...
From the Business: Nidhi Narielwala advises on privacy, data security and technology transactions. She focuses her practice on regulatory and transactional issues in information technology and outsourcing, including global privacy and data security regulation and comprehensive privacy compliance programs. She assists clients in various sectors, including entertainme...
From the Business: When you come to our law office, you come to a place that cares about the client and every facet of the client's case. We are able to ascertain the needs and goals of our client's thanks to the time and attention we spend on listening to our clients. The lawyer-client relationship is at the center of our problem-solving approach. Every issue is sc...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sheehan Band has experience in a wide variety of complex litigation matters, including commercial, securities, bankruptcy, white collar investigations and shareholder derivative actions. Sheehan has represented a major financial institution during a Department of Justice investigation stemming from the 2008 financial crisis; the board of directors...
From the Business: Mr. Gupta has represented companies acting as acquirers or sellers, as well as investment banking clients, in mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, takeovers (negotiated and contested), venture capital transactions, restructurings, joint ventures and other strategic alliances. He also has represented issuers and investment bankin...
From the Business: Parth Patel is a Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution associate with Foley & Lardner LLP in the firm’s Chicago office. Before joining Foley, Parth was an extern for the Honorable Harry D. Leinenweber of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where he wrote decisions and legal memoranda on issues before the court...
From the Business: Nikhil Mehta represents companies in a variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity deals, joint ventures, restructurings, and other transactions that shape clients' businesses. His experience includes representation of local, national, and multi-national companies in the negotiation and closing of transactions....
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: Ritika Narayanan is an immigration attorney. As a litigator, Ritika specializes in federal litigation, removal defense, and criminal immigration (crimmigration). She helps clients navigate this quickly-evolving legal landscape and handles all aspects of corporate and employment immigrant and nonimmigrant visas, along with family-based applications...