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Satvik Varma, Litigation Counsel, on establishing Independent practice, studying LLM from Harvard Law School, and authoring a book
Satvik Varma is a Litigation Counsel and Corporate Attorney. Prior to setting up his private practice, Satvik was a partner at India’s premier law firm, (undivided) Amarchand Mangaldas and also served as the Vice-President and Counsel in the corporate law group at Lehman Brothers (2003-2005) headquarter in New York. Satvik started his career as a litigator (1998-2001) at the Supreme Court of India and the…
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Kunal Endait, Head Litigation & IP, Mintkart India, on career in media law, and experience as an in-house counsel
Kunal Endait completed his graduation from ILS Law College, Pune. He then went on to pursue his LL.M from NLSIU. He is currently in-house counsel (Head Litigation & IP) at Mintkart India Pvt Ltd (formerly EBay India and a Flipkart group company). He has over ten years of professional experience and has experience of working in media and…
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Subhayu Chakraborty, Strategy and M&A Investment, Naspers Ltd on transactional law and pursuing Masters from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Subhayu Chakraborty, graduated in Law from WBNUJS in the year 2012. Subjects like IPR, Economics, Economics and Law, Corporate Law, Taxation and Corporate Finance/Governance and Law interested him and he has penned down a few articles – one published by the prestigious International Astronautical Federation (IAF) in 2010. Subhayu went on to pursue his Master’s…
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Debanshu Khettry, Principal Associate, Leslie & Khettry, on LLM from UCL and challenges of starting new ventures
Debanshu Khettry is a fourth-generation lawyer at Leslie & Khettry. He focusses on corporate law, commercial contracts, corporate finance and banking law, securities law, property law, and legal due diligence. Debanshu has catered to international clients looking to do business or having business in India through his association with a reputed and one of the best…
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Sachin Malhan, Co-founder and CEO, HumLab on being a good entrepreneur, the challenges of starting your own venture, and his involvement with the Agami Prize
Sachin Malhan is the co-founder and CEO of HumLab. Before that he was the Executive Director of the Changemakers global program of Ashoka, the world’s leading social innovation network. Before his work at Ashoka, Sachin co-founded three ventures in India – Law School Tutorials, the leading law test-prep outfit, currently present in 60 cities and training over 30,000 students…
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Rahul Bajaj, Associate, Trilegal, on being awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholar, and making the Legal Ecosystem Disabled-Friendly
Rahul Bajaj graduated in law from the University of Nagpur in 2017. He has also secured the first position in the B.A. LL.B. course. He is the 2017 recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded only to five Indians each year to pursue their postgraduate education at the University of Oxford. He is currently…
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Prachi Shrivastava, Journalist, Legally India, on being a legal journalist and a career in legal journalism
Prachi Shrivastava graduated from Amity Law School, Delhi in 2011 and is currently working as journalist with Legally India. She covers news developments in the transactional legal space, the bar, the bench, law schools, legal policy and trends in the Indian legal profession, for Legally India. She also handles editorial responsibilities, such as copy-editing, at Legally India,…
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Yashvardhan Rana, on building his career in Intellectual Property Law being a top emerging lawyer and his passion for writing
Yashvardhan Rana graduated from Symbiosis Law College, Pune in the year 2013 after which he pursued LLM in IPR from QMUL. He also pursued a certificate course in International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration from London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently working with Inttl Advocare as an Associate. In this interview we speak to him…
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Syed Asif Iqbal, Co-founder and Legal head, Advok8, on challenges of being an entrepreneur
Syed Asif Iqbal graduated from Lloyd Law College in 2015. He then began his career under Ratan K Singh, and subsequently moved on to Rachana Joshi Issar & Associates. He is the co-founder of advok8.in. He is also the legal head of advok8.in . He deals in Consumer matters, Arbitration, Civil law, Service law and also criminal law matters. In this interview he…
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Sonam Taneja, Programme Manager, Food Safety and Toxins, on career in indirect tax and Food Safety laws and policies in India
Sonam Taneja graduated from ILS Law College, Pune, in 2010. She currently works with Food Safety and Toxins division at Centre for Science and Environment as programme manager. She has close to eight years of work experience. She also has expertise in Indirect Tax and has worked as senior associate at Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan. In this interview,…
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