Krishna & Saurastri Associates

Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP is an award-winning pan-India law firm, with offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Ahmedabad. The firm comprises of 200 members having diverse backgrounds who focus on rendering business friendly legal services. We represent clients from all major industries and sectors. Our team includes specialists with niche expertise and industry experience which are leveraged to provide clients maximum value from legal counseling. Most of the firm's professionals have formative degrees in natural sciences, engineering, arts, or business, prior to qualifying as lawyers, which is helpful while navigating complex legal waters.

The firm was formed in the year 1992 as a boutique intellectual property and technology law firm. In the year 1995, the firm merged with a law practice which was set up in 1956. This was followed by a period of tremendous growth, and consequently in the year 2016, the firm was converted into a limited liability partnership firm. Since 2016, the firm slowly began to expand its offerings in other areas of law and has become a full-service law firm. The firm offers a variety of legal services from its two major divisions, which are the intellectual property & technology division and the general practice division.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & TECHNOLOGY DIVISION: 

• Patents
• Trademarks & Geographical Indications
• Designs
• Copyrights
• Trade Secrets
• Data Protection & Privacy
• IP & Technology Litigation
• IP Assignments
• Licensing & Franchising
• Technology Transfers
• Media & Entertainment
• Advertising
• Fashion Law & Merchandising
• Anti-Counterfeiting
• Information Technology & E-Commerce
• Cyber Security
• Customs & Border Enforcement
• Plant Varieties Protection
• Biological Diversity Law
• Sports Law
• Art Law

GENERAL PRACTICE DIVISION:

• Arbitration
• Competition Law
• Employment Law
• Corporate
• Commercial Litigation
• Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As) & Joint Ventures (JVs)
• Private Client--Family Disputes & Arrangements-Succession Planning-Estates, Wills & Trusts
• Insolvency & Bankruptcy
• Real Estate & Property

Key practice areas: 

Copyright, Copyright & related rights, Intellectual property, Designs, Intellectual property (contentious), Intellectual property (prosecution), Life sciences IP, Patent, IP transactions, Patent (contentious), Patent (prosecution), Trade mark, Trade mark (contentious), Trade mark (prosecution)

Sector expertise: 

Accounting, Advertising, Artificial intelligence, Aerospace, Arts, Automotive, Agriculture, Aviation, Banking, Biotechnology, Chemical, Computer technology & services, Construction and materials, Consumer goods and services, Electrical, Electronics, Defence, Energy, Fashion & luxury goods, Film, E-commerce, Financial services, Fisheries and aquaculture, Forestry, Furniture, FMCG, Gaming, Government and public policy, Food and beverage, Healthcare, Hospitality & leisure, Instruments, ICT & software, Insurance, Internet, Industrials, Investment management, Manufacturing, Life sciences, Mechanical, Medical device, Media, Mining, Logistics, Music, Nanotechnology, Natural resources, Optics & photonics, Not-for-profit, Oil and gas, Pharmaceutical, Professional services, Renewable energy, Publishing, Retail, Real estate, Robotics, Semiconductors, Sports, Shipping, Social infrastructure, Technology hardware, Tobacco, Telecommunication, Tourism, Transport, Universities & research, Utilities

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