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...
From the Business: Karthik Kumar, Ph.D., focuses on competitor patent and trade secrets litigation, and strategic counseling related to emerging technologies. Recognized in IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 and as a Global Leader, Karthik manages the global patent portfolios of several world-renowned technology companies. He also serves as co...
From the Business: Nimesh Patel works closely with the firm’s chairperson and is responsible for leading the diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives, ensuring that the firm’s core principles of inclusiveness and diversity are reflected across its internal and external policies, work and practices. Having worked in both the private sector and the federal gov...
From the Business: Moushmi routinely advises clients on the most complex regulatory challenges relating to the public procurement process. Her experience include litigating bid protests before the Court of Federal Claims and the Government Accountability Office, coordinating regulatory due diligence processes for large scale M&A transactions, and negotiating wit...
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: 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: Javade Chaudhri has worldwide experience assisting private and public-sector companies in transactions and projects in many industry sectors and geographies. He advises companies on domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances as well as corporate governance, compliance, and internal investigations. He also handles com...
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From the Business: Anita M. Singh serves as Associate Director of the law school's Legal Research and Writing Program. Prior to joining the GW Law faculty, Professor Singh was Chief of Staff and Counselor of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, where she oversaw the operations of nearly 400 attorneys and other professionals responsible for pr...
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: Our highly experienced staff can also assist you with the Legal issues. When it comes to any of your claims, We Backed by years of experience, our attorneys know what it takes to get results. Our team takes the time to understand each client's unique needs and builds personalized strategies for each case in order to achieve the best possible outco...
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: Puja Patel is an associate in the Intellectual Property practice of Paul Hastings LLP and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. She focuses her practice on intellectual property and technology matters with an emphasis on patent litigation. Ms. Patel received her law degree from American University Washington College of Law in 2021. Durin...
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: 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: Hrishikesh N. Hari assists clients in national security and white collar matters, advising clients on a range of significant international trade, cross-border investment, anti-corruption, and public policy matters. Hrishi has extensive experience advising on national security reviews of foreign direct investment (FDI) and complex cross-border tran...
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: Naveen Modi is the Global Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice at Paul Hastings, overseeing the firm’s Global Intellectual Property Practice consisting of more than 100 attorneys. Mr. Modi’s practice covers all aspects of high stakes IP-related legal work, including litigation before federal district courts, the U.S. International Trade ...
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: 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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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...
