Mr V Lakshmikumaran > Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan > New Delhi, India > Lawyer Profile

Managing partner V. Lakshmikumaran oversees the tax team at Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, which attracts client praise for its ‘wealth of talent.’ With a dedicated customs advisory and litigation offering, the group routinely advises on contentious mandates before the high courts and the Indian Supreme Court. Income tax and GST advice constitute other core pillars of work for the team. Other key members of the group include litigator Charanya Lakshmikumaran as well as Raghavan Ramabadran, a notable individual on the GST and tax compliance front.

Clients in the metals, petrochemicals, and tech industries regularly seek the counsel of the international trade and WTO team at Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan. Founder and managing partner V. Lakshmikumaran oversees the practice; he works alongside Devinder Bagia, who represents international corporations and domestic exporters in trade remedy investigations across multiple jurisdictions, a core pillar of work for the practice. Ankur Sharma attracts praise for his ‘immense’ knowledge of the sector and specialises in advising on trade remedy issues, including anti-dumping, safeguards, and countervailing duty investigations. The core team also includes Pareesha Gupta, a key contact for clients in the petrochemicals, textiles, and pharma sectors facing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is known for its integrated IP, life sciences and technology law skills. It provides IP asset protection from freedom to operate, prosecution and registration to valuations, licensing and litigation. Its scope takes in domestic and international applications, including in the EU and USA. In addition to patent protection, it serves its domestic and international clients with the protection of design and trade mark registrations and enforcement, copyright and plant variety protections and antitrust cases.  Malathi Lakshmikumaran has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology with expertise in plant genomics. She heads the life sciences group and is a registered patent attorney. L Badri Narayanan co-heads the IP practice and oversees the corporate and M&A practice while Prashant Phillips is a key partner for the protection of all types of IP from registrations to litigation. He is especially adept in the protection of inventions related to software, telecoms and electronics. Also a core team member with a science background, Vindhya S. Mani has a track record in oppositions and litigation before the Trademarks and Patents Office, the High Courts and the Supreme Court. V. Lakshmikumaran is the founder and managing partner who advises on tax and trade remedies in addition to intellectual properties.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan  acts for international and national clients, providing end-to-end assistance in securing and enforcing IP rights, handling registration, prosecution, valuation, licensing and litigation. The deep bench includes Malathi Lakshmikumaran who heads the life sciences side of the IP team and handles patent applications within the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnological sectors. Badri Narayanan‘s practice provides expertise where IP and tax issues intersect while Prashant Phillips handles design and patent prosecution and litigation. Founder and managing partner V. Lakshmikumaran is known for representing IP rights holders in various courts in India. All lawyers are based in New Delhi.