Our People
SANDEEP GROVER
Designation
Founding Partner
Contact
sandeep.grover@ortislaw.com
Education
B.A.,LL.B. (Hons.) Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (2005)
LL.M. (Corporate Law) Kurukshetra University (2010)
BAR Admissions
Supreme Court (of India) Bar Association
Delhi High Court Bar Association
Sandeep has more than 18 years of dispute resolution experience and specializes in commercial and civil litigation and arbitrations. Significant part of his practice has been advising and representing clients in matters relating to patent and copyright infringement issues, joint venture, company and shareholder disputes, employment related issues, merger and demerger schemes, insolvency, tender related disputes, white collar crimes, real estate disputes, infrastructure and engineering disputes, other corporate and commercial disputes, debt recovery matters and consumer litigation. Sandeep also guides clients on their day-to-day corporate legal issues and compliances.
Currently, Sandeep is spearheading high stake and multi-million-dollar infringement litigations on behalf of an Israeli entity across various forums in India. Sandeep and his team are also actively involved in prosecution and trial of several patents, trademark and copyright litigations, being handled by the firm. Apart from the same, Sandeep is also regularly involved in formulating IP strategy, managing and strategizing patents and designs prosecutions in India and abroad.
Sandeep regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts across the country, Intellectual Property Appellate Board, Patent Office, National Company Law Tribunal and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, District Courts, Consumer Forums and the Debt Recovery Tribunal.
He also represents clients across a variety of sectors, including diamond industry, aviation, telecommunication, automobile, infra-tech, power, aviation, transportation, defence, food and beverages, information technology, hospitality sector, healthcare and pharmaceutical, apparel, real estate etc. He has advised both domestic and international clients located across a wide range of jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, United States of America, Singapore, Japan, Israel, Korea, Canada, to name a few.
Sandeep has extensive experience in the field of Trusts and Estate Planning and has been involved in complex estate planning in the past.
Prior to establishing ORTIS Law Offices, Sandeep was part of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., New Delhi, Luthra & Luthra Law Offices (now L&L Partners Law Offices), New Delhi and had also gained litigation experience with Shri J. K. Seth, Senior Advocate. Sandeep headed the dispute resolution team of IndusLaw, Delhi Office for a period of two and a half years, and successfully built a formidable dispute resolution team at IndusLaw Delhi Office.
Sandeep’s key clients include Citibank, Lufthansa German Airlines, Austrian Airlines and Swiss Air, Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Private Limited, Micromax Informatics Limited, Citibank N.A., Ebix Group, Quikr Realty Limited, DIC India Limited, Sarine Technologies Limited and Galatea Limited, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Canon India Private Limited, Hunting Energy Services, Damodar Valley Corporation and Reliance JioInfocomm Ltd.
ADITYA NAYYAR
Designation
Founding Partner
Contact
aditya.nayyar@ortislaw.com
Education
B.A.,LL.B. (Hons.) Amity Law School, New Delhi affiliated to the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (2012)
BAR Admissions
Delhi High Court Bar Association
Aditya has more than 11 years of experience in dispute resolution and specializes in corporate, commercial and civil litigation and arbitrations. Prior to establishing ORTIS Law Offices, Aditya was part of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., New Delhi and erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas Suresh A. Shroff and Co.
Aditya represents clients across a variety of sectors, including aviation, telecommunication, automobile, power, insurance, transportation, information technology, real estate etc. He has advised both domestic and international clients located across a wide range of jurisdictions. Further, his practice area mainly includes matters relating to company and shareholder disputes, employment related issues, tender related disputes, white collar crimes, real estate disputes, infrastructure and engineering disputes, land acquisition, other corporate and commercial disputes, debt recovery matters and consumer litigation.
He regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts across the country, District Courts, Central Information Commission, Consumer Forums and in arbitrations and mediations.
He also regularly advices his clients to ensure that they are compliant with the existing data protection laws, including Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules/ Guidelines framed thereunder.
Aditya also advises several multinational companies on their day-to-day legal issues concerning commercial and business affairs, commercial contracts, including Power Purchase Agreements, Service Agreements, Employment Agreements and related documentations. Aditya also handles the entire gamut of employment matters including, issues pertaining to termination of employees, ESOP’s (Employee Stock Options), benefits, disciplinary action etc.
Aditya has serviced key clients, including InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., Citibank, Tata Communications Ltd., Bharti Group, Samsung India Electronics Private Limited, vivo Mobile India Private Limited, CP Wholesale, Lufthansa German Airlines and Austrian Airlines, Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Private Limited, Micromax Informatics Limited, Reliance JioInfocomm Ltd. etc.
POOJA SOOD
Designation
Partner – IPR
Contact
pooja.sood@ortislaw.com
Education
B.Tech (Food Tech.) (Punjab Technical University)
PGDIP in IPR (Indian Law Institute)
LL.B. (CCS, Meerut)
Pooja is a qualified patent agent registered with the Indian Patent Office and a qualified lawyer. She has extensive experience of more than 16 years in patent drafting and patent prosecution, particularly in the areas of food technology, pharmaceuticals, chemicals related consumer products, material processing, polymers and food processing. She is experienced in challenging and defending the validity of patents before the Indian Patent Office and working with the dispute resolution teams before various courts of India.
Pooja also supports clients with drafting and prosecuting patent applications and providing strategic advice to the clients to protect their intellectual property rights. She is responsible for analyzing patent documents, prior art search, patentability and invalidation searching.
She leads the IPR Department of ORTIS with her vast knowledge in various techno legal aspects of patents, trademarks, copyrights and designs, and client handling skills.
Prior to joining ORTIS, Pooja was handling the patent practice in the UnitedIPR Group.
NIRALI OZA
Designation
Partner (Ahmedabad Office)
Contact
nirali.oza@ortislaw.com
Education
B.A.,LL.B. (Hons.), Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
BAR Admissions
Gujarat High Court Advocates’ Association
With more than a decade’s experience in litigation and disputes resolution, Nirali specializes in handling commercial and civil disputes and also renders advice on corporate issues. Her practice centers around matters relating to IPR, employment law, minor and major minerals, education, insolvency disputes, tender related issues among others. Nirali additionally has hands-on experience of criminal trials and handling matters related to white-collar crimes. Presently, Nirali heads the Ahmedabad Office of ORTIS.
Nirali regularly appears before the High Court of Gujarat, trial courts as well as other judicial and quasi judicial foras.
Prior to becoming part of ORTIS, Nirali gained litigation experience at the chambers of Senior Advocate, Mr. Harish Salve, at the Supreme Court and has thereafter, been practicing before the High Court of Gujarat and advises various clients across diverse sectors within the State of Gujarat.
ISHWER UPNEJA
Designation
Partner –Dispute Resolution
Contact
ishwer.upneja@ortislaw.com
Education
LL.B. (Hons.) University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun
BAR Admissions
Delhi High Court Bar Association
Ishwer has more than a decade’s experience and specializes in civil and commercial litigation. He practices primarily in matters relating to enforcement of intellectual property rights, commercial contracts, amalgamation and restructuring of companies, winding-up, insolvency and bankruptcy, government tenders, weights and measurements, contractual dispute and general corporate commercial laws to name a few.
In particular, Ishwer has represented a variety of clients before the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, Punjab and Haryana High Court, Gujarat High Court, Uttrakhand High Court, National and State Consumer Forums, Debt Recovery Tribunal, National Company Law Tribunal to name a few.
Before joining ORTIS, Ishwer was associated with IndusLaw.
SAURABH BHARDWAJ
Designation
Partner – Corporate
Contact
saurabh.bhardwaj@ortislaw.com
Education
B.A.,LL.B. (Hons.) Amity Law School,
Delhi (affiliatedto the GGSIPU)
BAR Admissions
Delhi High Court Bar Association
Saurabh is the corporate partner with ORTIS and has over a decade long post-qualification experience in advising clients on various domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments, banking & finance transactions and general corporate advisory.
Prior to joining ORTIS, Saurabh was senior partner at Forte Legal where he managed MNCs as well as startup clients and fortified his expertise and personal brand in the field of M&A, Private Equity, Banking & Finance and commercial agreements.
Saurabh regularly advises clients across a variety of sectors, including ecommerce, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, banking/non-banking financial companies, real estate and technology. In particular, Saurabh has experience in drafting and negotiating a wide range of transaction documents pertaining to mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, business transfers, debt documents, domestic loans, external commercial borrowings, acquisition finance, project finance, structured finance and re-financing transactions, commercial transactions, IPR Licensing/Assignment etc.. He has vast experience of conducting legal due diligence and working closely with taxation and finance experts in order to deliver best representation to the clients.
Saurabh has serviced key clients, including Targetone Innovations Pvt. Ltd. (GoMechanic), Inspilearn Education Pvt. Ltd. (Scholr), Bevzilla India Pvt. Ltd. (Bevzilla), Exprto Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Khelgully Gaming Pvt. Ltd. (Khelgully), Chatpay Commerce Pvt. Ltd. (Chatpay), Trikon Ecosystems Pvt. Ltd. (Trikon), Vyomeen MediaPrivate Ltd., Fusion Klassroom Edutech Pvt. Ltd., kWh Motors Pvt. Ltd. Omnivio Retail Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Dwellerin Network Pvt. Ltd.
VINEESH KEDARAM
Designation
Counsel – IPR
Contact
vineesh.kedaram@ortislaw.com
Education
B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.) (Hindu College, Delhi University)
LL.B. (Hons.) (Delhi University)
BAR Admissions
Delhi High Court Bar Association
Vineesh is a qualified patent agent registered with the Indian Patent Office and a qualified lawyer specializing in intellectual property laws (including patents, trademarks, designs and copyright).
Vineesh regularly assists companies, businesses and individuals in relation to intellectual property advice, prosecuting patents, designs and trademark proceedings, drafting patent applications, conducting freedom to operate searches, and also attending hearings at the Indian Patent Office and other tribunals and courts in India in connection with intellectual property matters.
Vineesh has previously worked in the Intellectual Property Team at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas) (Delhi) and Masilamani Law Partners (Delhi).