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: 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: Mahaa Mahmood is a skilled legal advisor renowned for her expertise in international law, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. With a client-focused approach, she offers comprehensive legal solutions to individuals, businesses, and organizations operating across diverse industries and jurisdictions. Mahaa specializes in structuring cross-...
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...
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 ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Ronak D. Desai is a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles offices and firm-wide leader of Paul Hastings’ Congressional Investigations practice. A seasoned international investigations, enforcement defense, and compliance attorney, Ronak has extensive experience in both ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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...
