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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Keval Patel assists clients with a wide array of federal government relations, advocacy and regulatory services including tax, business, federal funding, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence issues. He is a seasoned government relations and public affairs strategist with experience in political, campaign, legislative, and federal and st...
From the Business: The Nawash Law Office is a community law firm that specializes in Car Accidents, Immigration, Family and traffic based, Criminal Law. Our mission is to stand with you when others stand against you. The Nawash Law Office will guarantee aggressive representation. So whether you have been injured in a car accident, arrested for DWI, want child suppor...
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: Nira Pandya is an accomplished legal advisor specializing in corporate law, employment law, and risk management. With a focus on delivering tailored legal strategies, she assists businesses and individuals in navigating complex legal challenges with clarity and confidence. Nira’s expertise spans contract negotiation, compliance oversight, workplac...
From the Business: Sadhvika (Shenu) Reddy is a dedicated attorney who focuses on the regulation of investment companies, investment advisers, and mutual funds. Her practice spans a variety of regulatory and transactional matters, providing clients with comprehensive legal guidance in the complex landscape of investment management. Shenu assists clients with ongoing ...
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: 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: 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: 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: The Syed Law Firm assisted me in successfully obtaining my Green Card through the EB1 category (for aliens of extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics). My accomplishments include swimming for India at the Olympics and working for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. The EB1 category has very stringent standards and i...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Soumya Dayananda is a partner in Willkie’s Litigation Department, where she is a member of the Investigations & Enforcement Practice. She is based in Willkie’s Washington, DC office. Soumya has over 20 years of public service experience, including handling complex government investigations, crisis management and congressional oversight. She re...
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: Srinivas Ayyagari has extensive electronic discovery and legal privilege experience, representing clients in the litigation preparation, research and discovery phases of complex multidistrict litigation, congressional investigations and antitrust investigations. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Ayyagari worked on a wide range of eDiscovery matters ...
