Ms Savitha Kesav Jagadeesan > Kochhar & Co. > Chennai, India > Lawyer Profile
Kochhar & Co. Offices
SUITE 305, DELTA WING
3RD FLOOR, RAHEJA TOWERS, #177 ANNA SALAI
CHENNAI 600 002, TAMIL NADU
India
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Ms Savitha Kesav Jagadeesan

Work Department
- Corporate/M&A
- Employment Law
- Intellectual Property Rights (IP)
- TMT
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Real Estate & Construction
Position
Senior Partner
Career
Savitha is a Senior Partner and Co-heads the Firm’s Chennai office. In addition, to leading the Intellectual Property practice in Chennai, her practice areas include Corporate Law, Employment Law, and TMT.
Savitha extensively advises on labour matters including employer employee disputes, termination issues. She has also been appointed as the IC external member for several companies and advises companies on issues related to Workplace Harassment and Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH).
Savitha also advises several large foreign and domestic clients on negotiating and handling joint ventures, Private Equity investment documentation, foreign direct investment (FDI), technical collaborations, share/asset purchase deals, mergers and acquisitions and India investment strategies. In addition to handling the traditional IPR issues, Savitha has been handling IP portfolios (litigation and prosecution) for clients across a wide range of industry sectors including FMCG, auto parts, IT, education, media and entertainment, amongst others.
Savitha mentors and advises startups and hi-tech companies on e-commerce and internet related transactions, critical issues relating to co-branding, content licensing, platform agreements and cyber related IPR issues.
She has an extensive research background and is recipient of the prestigious Monash Research Scholarship (Australia) to conduct research in the area of Cyber Crime and Policing. During her stint in Australia, she also taught Contract law, Commercial Law and Criminal Law at Monash University and Victoria University.
Languages
English, Hindi
Memberships
Education
Lawyer Rankings
India > Intellectual property > PATMA: patent and trade mark attorneys
Kochhar & Co. offers a comprehensive range of IP protection and related expertise, much of which is cross-border. Tarvinder Singh is dual qualified – both a lawyer and a registered patent attorney and has some 30 years of experience serving famous name brand owners. His work spans the protection and exploitation of IP assets including copyrights together with expertise in trade secrets, passing off, data protection, employee IP ownership and media law. His clients include global automotive companies; he is acting for Toyota to prevent misuse of its LEXUS trademark. Working closely with Singh in Guragon, Anshuman Sharma specialises in trademark protection together with trade dress, unfair competition, copyrights and domain names. Savitha Kesav Jagadeesan , chair of the IPR practice in Chennai, handles the management of extensive IP portfolios across a wide range of industries such as FMCG, auto parts, IT, education and media. Her extensive experience relates to trademarks, patents, industrial designs and copyrights as well as unfair competition while Daksh Kumar (New Delhi) covers all aspects of trade mark protection from prosecution to litigation in addition to copyrights, designs, geographical indications, domain names and anti-counterfeiting. On the contentious side, he undertakes passing off and trademark infringement actions. Lynn Lazaro focuses on IP transactional matters for Indian and international companies.
India > Intellectual property > Intellectual property
With practice heads operating across four major cities, Kochhar & Co. is a name to note across India for its solid IP expertise, which spans trademark, copyright, commercial IP, litigation, piracy, anti-counterfeiting and enforcement, in addition to domain name disputes. Tarvinder Singh is regularly sought out by large global corporations for his experience dealing with trademark prosecution and litigation, while in New Delhi, Daksh Kumar is known for handling copyright, design and anti-counterfeiting litigation and prosecution. Other key members include Chennai’s Savitha Kesav Jagadeesan, who specialises in litigation including within the media, IT, education and car manufacturing spaces; Lynn Lazaro of the Bangalore office, handles transactional matters while Anshuman Sharma also stands out for his handling of contentious and non-contentious commercial IP matters. Practitioners are located in Gurgaon unless otherwise stated.
Lawyer Rankings
- Intellectual property India > Intellectual property
- PATMA: patent and trade mark attorneys India > Intellectual property
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and M&A
- Labour and employment
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- White-collar crime
- WTO/international trade
Firm Rankings
- Aviation (including aerospace and defence)
- Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property
- Intellectual property > PATMA: patent and trade mark attorneys
- Projects and energy
- TMT
- Data protection
- Fintech and financial services regulatory
- Antitrust and competition