Overview

Abhishek has represented the Central Government in high value matters including sensitive white-collar crime, policy, treaty investment and enforcement matters over the last few years. He is well versed with the Civil, Commercial, Corporate as well as Criminal Laws of India. His main areas of practice are Arbitration (Domestic & International), Criminal Law, Commercial laws, Indirect Taxation, Foreign Trade Policy Matters, Constitutional law, Company Laws, Intellectual Property Laws, Corporate Law, Banking and Finance, Land & Property laws, Labor laws, Cyber laws & E-commerce, Consumer Laws & Anti-Competitive law to name a few. He has also successfully represented major international and national clients.

Experience Statement

• Advising and assisting India’s state-owned gas enterprise in a USD 4 Billion international energy arbitration arising on account of Russian Sanctions.
• Advising and representing a global technology public company in its disputes enumerating out of its investment in a tech start-up.
• Representing India’s largest hydropower development organization in its arbitral disputes arising out of its hydropower projects.
• Representing a market leading innovative gas solutions and technologies company in its dispute with an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India.
• Represented and advised the Client before the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) tribunals as well as various allied litigations spread across the globe, including England, Mauritius, Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Dubai, and India. He also handled two multi-million-dollar international arbitrations, seated in Geneva, administered by the LCIA, arising out of a dispute between a Private Equity (PE) Investor and majority shareholder/promoter (in the FMCG space).

Overview

With over 13 years of experience in the field of intellectual property (IP) law and general litigation, Amit is well-versed with litigation in the civil and white-collar crimes, expanding to disputes arising out of intellectual property and patent infringement. He also holds expertise in IP licensing and brand protection, IP advisory and due-diligence and automobile industry. He has previously briefed and argued alongside eminent Senior Counsel like Kapil Sibal, Amit Sibal, C.S. Vaidyanathan, Rajiv Nayyar, Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, to name a few.

Amit has assisted several global and Indian companies in the pharmaceutical sector under the Drugs & Cosmetics Act- 1940 and Drugs Price Control Order 2013, media & entertainment, hospitality, agro-industry sector, information technology, license exploitation, brand protection, start-up management and enforcement of their intellectual property in India and sports law.

His work experience includes protection and maintenance of IP portfolios in litigation, transactions & advisory and prosecution. He has successfully advised start-up on brand protection and expansion including advisory on License/ Software Agreement.

Today, Amit concentrates and supervises on trademark and technology, drug regulatory and drug price control related matters and copyright litigation and advises in IP prosecution matters related to artwork and new age technology with advisory on patent protection. He also expands into copyright and design prosecution, business transactions including one of his core strengths in litigation (IP & general) strategizing.

Experience Statement

• Supervised Mylan Inc. (now Viatris/Biocon) in exhaustive IP litigation involving life-saving drugs and bio-similar drugs, patent protection and advisory.
• Supervised Mylan Laboratories Limited in exhaustive IP litigation involving regulation of price control of life-saving drugs, suits for recovery.
• Strategizing & representing Minor Group Plc in disputes against an Indian hospitality company over misuse of its trademark “ANANTARA”. Successfully procured ex-parte orders of injunction which was later confirmed by the trial court in a hearing and accepted by the High Court, alongside managing the portfolio for ANANTARA chain of hotels, globally and in India.
• Strategizing and representing one of the biggest 2-wheeler manufacturers Hero MotoCorp Limited in prosecution in India and globally, with over 1800+ applications.

Megha has over 17 years of dedicated experience in Intellectual Property (IP) that includes stints at leading law firms. Her professional journey spans spectrum of IP matters across both international and domestic clients.

Megha’s proficiency encompasses a wide array of IP domains, including patents, designs, strategic counselling, and commercial transactions. She excels in providing comprehensive guidance and formulating strategies across the entire patent lifecycle. Her skills extend to conducting prior art searches, facilitating freedom to operate analysis and patentability assessments; drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications largely in India but also in other jurisdictions such as the U.S. and EP; and handling oppositions before the Indian Patent Office and appeals before various High Courts; post-grant compliances and commercialization.

Megha’s expertise and adversarial practice traverse diverse technology domains, including biotechnology, genetics, medical devices, chemical sciences, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals, atomic energy, mechanical sciences, wireless communication technologies, semiconductors, automotive, industrial, electrical and telecom, software, and wind energy. Megha has successfully handled extensive IP portfolios representing a diverse spectrum of clients with over 4000+ concluded applications. She has assisted clients in developing their in-house IP capabilities and formulating internal IP strategies.

In Megha’s professional journey, she has successfully collaborated with clients across diverse sectors including but not limited to: paints, coatings, and specialty materials; household and personal hygiene appliances; wind turbines and sustainable energy; crude oil and natural gas; medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents; laboratory equipment, clinical and diagnostic instruments and spectrometry; agriculture and agro-processing technologies; drugs and bio-pharmaceuticals; molecular genetics and integrated solutions; immunodiagnostic systems; food, metallurgy and building materials; information technology, signal sources and signal processing electronics; and photochromic solutions.

Professional Qualifications:  Registered Indian Patent Agent (2008)

Suprio’s career spans over 30 years, in diverse settings. He started his career with United Nations before moving to academics, then in-house and finally transitioned to private practice from general counsel practice of more than 2 decades.

Suprio’s focus areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, general corporate and commercial matters, intellectual property, technology, media & telecommunication, labour & employment, ESG, real estate, anti-corruption & compliance, data privacy and litigations/dispute resolution for clients across the sectors such as pharmaceuticals, life sciences, healthcare, technology, media, entertainment, telecommunication, energy and real estate, etc.

Experience Statement

• Advised Board of the listed companies of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Schneider Electric India, Honeywell JVs in India.

• Advised Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories in M&A and business deals with Wockhardt, UCB, Astra Zeneca, etc and Securities Class Action, Anti-trust litigation and Pricing litigations in the USA and India.

• Advised Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals in pharma statutory compliances, FCPA compliances and data privacy compliances.

• Advised Glenmark Pharmaceuticals in prosecution matters with the Dept. of Justice, USA and IP class actions in USA.

• Advised Schneider Electric in power and renewable energy projects both in utility and solar sectors.

• Advised Honeywell in SEZ related matters, real estate deals, global integration in various acquisitions and technology transfer to NAL and other aerospace commercial deals.

• Advised GE and Honeywell in cross border IP transactions, technology transfer, patent protection, licensing, anti-counterfeit strategy & actions and statutory compliances.

• Advised the Government of India in legislative drafting, profit sharing model for CSIR laboratories, IITs and IISc.