Savitha Kesav Jagadeesan is a senior resident partner in Kocchar & Co and leads the firms Intellectual Property Law practice. Her other practice areas include Corporate Law, Employment Law, and TMT law. She is also actively engaged in advising several large foreign and domestic clients on negotiating and preparing joint ventures, Private Equity Investment documentation, foreign Direct Investment, technical collaboration, share/asset purchase deals, mergers and acquistion and India Investment Strategies. She sits on several POSH committees. She is handling various IP portfolios (litigation and prosecution) for clients across a wide range of industry sectors including FMCG, auto parts, IT, Education, media and entertainment etc.
Savitha has been actively engaging with numerous dynamic start-up ventures and hi-tech companies in India advising them on e-commerce and internet related transactions, including critical issues relating to co-branding, content licensing, platform agreements and cyber related IPR issues.
- Admitted to the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa in 1999.
- Awarded the Monash Research Scholarship (Australia) to conduct research in the area of Cyber Crime and Policing.
- Awarded the distinction of being among the top 100 IP professionals by Asia IP.
- Declared among the top 100 Legal professionals in India by Forbes India in 2021.
- Declared among the top 100 IP professionals by World IP Forum.