From the Business: Radha Mohan translates Washington for companies with tax, education, workforce development and corporate social responsibility policy priorities, formulating their advocacy positions and brand narratives to resonate with lawmakers. She helps clients position themselves as thought leaders on important issues and develops proactive strategies to add...
From the Business: Arjun is an Associate at Fragomen’s Washington, DC office, where he collaborates with large clients to develop and scale their immigration programs. He advises clients on all aspects of immigration law and is particularly experienced in the PERM labor certification process. He also has experience working on complex immigration matters, such as PER...
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: Pranav gained experience working as an associate in the alternative entities and structured finance departments of a law firm in Wilmington, Del. Before becoming an attorney, Pranav was an accountant at a management services firm. While in law school, Pranav was an associate editor of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Jo...
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: 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: 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...
From the Business: Purnima Boominathan delivers full-spectrum legal counsel to venture-backed and public companies providing business-to-business services in the digital health space. She has particular expertise facilitating the creation, delivery and implementation of telemedicine. Purnima advises innovators working at the intersection of artificial intelligence 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Arjun Ghosh is an Associate in Caplin & Drysdale’s International Tax, Political Law, Complex Litigation, and Business, Investment & Transactional Tax practice groups. Mr. Ghosh works in the International Tax group advising individuals and multinational corporations on a broad range of tax issues with a particular focus on international tax...
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: 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: TD is a is a technology strategist who combines technical and legal training to focus on patent litigation and post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office including inter partes review (IPR) and patent reexamination. TD has deep-seated knowledge of technologies based on his engineering backgrounds in the industry and academia. TD’s indus...
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: Kaiser H. Chowdhry advises clients on employment law issues. He focuses on a full range of employment litigation, including Title VII, Wage and Hour, and OSHA matters. Kaiser also counsels clients regarding HR practices, reductions-in-force, and litigation avoidance. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Kaiser participated in the firm’s Public Interest F...
From the Business: Tejaswini received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as the Executive Editor on the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law after also serving as the Articles Editor. During law school, Tejaswini served as a Judicial Extern in the Minnesota Judiciary. She also volunteered with the Virginia Innocence P...
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: Dhara Satija has nearly 15 years of consulting experience serving healthcare and life sciences clients across an array of issues, including projects ranging from strategy and operations to regulatory and corporate compliance, risk management, and investigation and litigation support. In particular, Dhara has led projects related to: development an...
From the Business: Christopher Thomas advises clients on developing patent strategies tailored to meeting business goals and analyzing patent-related risks and opportunities. Chris focuses on advancing the business goals of clients in the United States and abroad by implementing strategies that position and protect his client’s business expansion and growth. His pra...
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...