From the Business: Chetan Bansal is of counsel in the Litigation practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Bansal’s practice focuses on intellectual property matters, including patent office proceedings and litigation. Mr. Bansal has represented petitioners and patent owners in dozens of patent office post-grant proceedings, i...
From the Business: Ajay Kuntamukkala helps companies navigate complex national security laws that affect their international business activities. His clients look to him to anticipate and resolve cutting-edge challenges such as China-related national security developments, economic sanctions, nuclear trade, unmanned aerial vehicles, encryption, and the intersection ...
From the Business: Hassan Ahmad is an associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group. He maintains an active pro bono practice. Prior to joining the firm, Hassan held various positions with local, state, and federal campaigns. He also served as a law clerk to Chief Circuit Judge Mary H. Murguia on ...
From the Business: Komal Karnik Nigam uses her background in public health and scientific research to understand the business and policy aspects of complex legal and scientific issues in the pharmaceutical industry. Her practice includes a broad range of regulatory matters, including assisting pharmaceutical clients with lifecycle management and product development ...
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: Neal Kumar is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department focusing on commodities and derivatives law, and a member of the Willkie Digital Works practice. Neal represents major financial institutions, participants within the digital asset eco-system, trading companies, exchanges, and clearing organizations, in a variety of regul...
From the Business: Our experienced attorneys’ primary focus is to assist you and your family in obtaining permanent legal status. We have extensive experience representing individuals and families in Court We represent individuals and families before the Immigration Court in all fifty states. We believe it is not how many lawyers work on your case, but believe in as...
From the Business: Shruti is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice, where her work has included reproductive rights matters and assisting individuals and families who have experienced sexual or domestic violence. Additionally, Shruti writes frequently on legal developments in the fast-evolving areas of privacy, cybersecurity, and national security. Prior to la...
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: Ravi routinely helps clients navigate high-stakes, crisis situations that garner the attention of multiple regulators, enforcement authorities, private litigants, and the media. These matters often involve internal and external investigations. He represents companies, boards, and senior executives in federal and state government investigations, li...
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: Mona Patel has extensive experience representing clients in large scale federal and state investigations brought by enforcement authorities, related qui tam or follow-on consumer protection litigation, internal investigations and compliance matters. She advises clients in the life sciences, defense, technology and manufacturing industries on a wid...
From the Business: Khushboo Agarwal is an associate in the Energy and Infrastructure practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Agarwal's practice focuses on the financing and development of infrastructure assets, primarily in the power, renewables and sustainable development sectors in the U.S. and Latin America. Ms. Agarwal h...
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: 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: 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: Ayuda provides legal, social, and language services to help vulnerable immigrants in our neighborhoods access justice and transform their lives. Since 1973, we have served more than 100,000 low-income immigrants throughout Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. Ayuda’s expert and dedicated professionals help immigrants from anywhere in the world na...
From the Business: Siddharth Goswami is a staff attorney in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office and a member of the Litigation Department. His experience has been focused on electronic discovery aspects of securities and ERISA matters. He also advises multinational clients on electronic discovery issues in FCPA investigations. Prior to joining O'Melveny, he practiced ...
From the Business: Sunita Paknikar is a senior counsel and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Finance Practice and the Energy Industry Team. Sunita focuses her practice on energy, project finance, project development, and tax equity finance. Sunita has helped to finance numerous community solar and other distributed generatio...
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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: 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: Priya Prakash Royal Esq, LL.M., MBA, AEP, TEP, has been practicing since 2006 and brings unparalleled experience in International Tax Law, trusts & estates, and non-profit law, combined with a distinguished background as a former IRS Estate Tax attorney, Priya stands as a visionary leader in private client services. A multijurisdictional attor...
From the Business: Nikita S. Bhojani focuses her practice primarily on US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, compliance, enforcement, and promotion matters related to foods, cosmetics, dietary supplements, and medical devices. She also helps with research and drafting responses to support healthcare litigation. Nikita assists clients on labeling, marketing...
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, ...
