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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Yohan Balan works primarily with Covington’s White Collar Defense & Investigations and Anti-Corruption teams on a wide range of matters. He assists institutions and individuals in high-stakes white collar investigations requiring representations before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Federal Government a...
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: 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 ...
