From the Business: Pooja Shah Kothari is a member of the Tax Practice and Election and Political Law Groups. She has experience counseling clients on tax controversy matters at the Federal and state level. In addition, Pooja advises various tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations on a wide range of issues, such as federal tax exemption, unrelated business income tax,...
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: Priya earned her J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an Editor for the American Criminal Law Review. Priya also served as a Student Attorney in Georgetown’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, through which she argued on behalf of an incarcerated client in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, securing a...
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: Rujul has held a number of leadership roles in the biopharma, PBM, and specialty pharmacy industry, including with CVS Caremark, UCB, and most recently as Vice President at Avalere Health. He has led engagements across a wide range of U.S. and global market access and reimbursement issues, including optimizing new product launches, pricing, PBM an...
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: Renita is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of McNeely, Hare & War LLP, where her practice focuses on patent litigation. She has served as litigation counsel in matters involving the chemical, pharmaceutical and mechanical arts, and has significant experience in all pre-trial, trial and post trial aspects of patent litigation, includin...
From the Business: Steptoe & Johnson LLP is an international law firm with more than 500 attorneys and other professionals in ten offices worldwide, including Beijing, Brussels, Century City, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, Phoenix and Washington, DC. Steptoe’s immigration attorneys handle immigration counseling and litigation issues relating to t...
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: 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: 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...
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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: 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: 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: 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: Anna Aryankalayil offers a unique insight into the antitrust agencies’ enforcement priorities for the tech, life sciences, and energy sectors following her recent service as Attorney Advisor to former Commissioner Noah Philips at the Federal Trade Commission. Having returned to private practice, Anna focuses on merger clearance and litigation, gov...
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: 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: 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: 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 ...
From the Business: Raj has considerable experience in telecommunications, optics, semiconductors, wireless technologies, neural networks, artificial intelligence, machine learning, signal processing, networking, smartphones, communication protocols, cryptography, lithography, material properties of semiconductors and metals, biometrics, video game technologies, soft...
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: 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...
