Kavita Mundkur Nigam is an advocate and Partner in Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP. Her practice areas include intellectual property & commercial contracts and transactions, IP licensing and acquisitions, technology transfer, due diligence, litigation, arbitration, domain names, trademarks, copyright, design, data protection; advisory, transactions and litigation in the media and entertainment sector. Kavita has initiated successful domain name arbitrations under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) at WIPO as well as at the .IN Registry in India. She also deals with matters relating to infringement, passing off and counterfeiting. She has worked on projects relating to company mergers and acquisitions, private equity, project finance and foreign investment.
Kavita holds a Bachelor's Degree in Law from Government Law College, Mumbai and a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics. She is registered with the Bar Council of India. She holds a Diploma in Cyber Laws from the Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune. Kavita also has to her credit, `Diplome de Langue Francaise', a degree in French offered by the Alliance Francaise de Bombay.
Kavita has authored articles on Intellectual Property Rights which have been published in several prestigious National and International publications. Kavita is on the committees of various international intellectual property practitioners' associations and is actively involved in their activities held worldwide.