Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Corporate
• Licensing and Technology Transfer
• Intellectual Property
• International

Prominent Assignments

• Prominent assignments were while with Anand and Anand Advocates, New Delhi, India, July 2003 - May 2006
• Advised India's largest business conglomerate on a media joint venture with their European partner
• Advised multinational clients on foreign investment options and modalities as well as structuring of joint ventures
• Formulated strategy for a large multinational luxury goods company on its counterfeiting problem in India; conducted
  ground investigations; obtained court orders and conducted enforcement actions
  
• Negotiated, drafted and reviewed many technology transfer, non-disclosure and intellectual property license and assignment agreements for multinational corporations
• Researched and drafted complaints for international domain name disputes including a ccTLD dispute filed in India on
  behalf of a American toy company
  
• Researched and drafted opinions on taxation and transfer pricing issues
• Researched and drafted opinions on privacy, trademark and media law matters for numerous clients

Education

• Columbia Law School, New York, NY L.L.M., May '07
  -Honors: J.N. Tata Endowment Scholarship; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  
• National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), June '03
  -Honors: Student Editor, Indian Journal of Environmental Law

Admitted to Practice

• Not admitted in Michigan
• Admitted in India
  - Member, Bar Council of Delhi, India

Publications and Presentations

• Panelist: INDIA: A Developing Market for U.S. Companies, May 23, 2007. Organized by the U.S. Commerce Department and the Michigan District Export Council (MDEC).
• Sports events & the 'hot news' test, The Economic Times, April 5, 2006.
• Speaker: Using the Copyright System to Add Value for Marketing Handicrafts: Indian Case Studies, at the National Seminar on Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for Handicrafts, Hyderabad, April 3-5, 2005. Organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• Environmental Non-governmental Organizations on the International Plane, 3 Indian Journal of Environmental Law 54 (2002).
• When Comparisons are Odious: Comparative Advertising & Disparagement, 13 Student Advocate 208 (2001).

Languages

• English (fluent)
• Hindi and Tamil (fluent)
• French (basic)