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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Khushboo Agarwal is an associate in the Energy and Infrastructure practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Agarwal's practice focuses on the financing and development of infrastructure assets, primarily in the power, renewables and sustainable development sectors in the U.S. and Latin America. Ms. Agarwal h...
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: 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: Hassan Shaikh Legal Services 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 b...
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: 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: Shruti is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice, where her work has included reproductive rights matters and assisting individuals and families who have experienced sexual or domestic violence. Additionally, Shruti writes frequently on legal developments in the fast-evolving areas of privacy, cybersecurity, and national security. Prior to la...
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: 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: Kalyani Joshi is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Her practice focuses on patent prosecution, post-grant proceedings, and patent counseling. Kalyani’s technical experience covers a wide variety of technologies, and is centered on the growing intersection of life sciences and technology industries. She uses her chemical eng...
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: 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: 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: 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: Hassan Ahmad is an associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group. He maintains an active pro bono practice. Prior to joining the firm, Hassan held various positions with local, state, and federal campaigns. He also served as a law clerk to Chief Circuit Judge Mary H. Murguia on ...
From the Business: AMIT BHATLA focuses his practice on high-stakes patent litigation. Amit received his law degree from the George Washington University Law School, graduating with highest honors and Order of the Coif. Amit earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas, where he also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Environmen...
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: 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: 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 ...
