Rahul Chaudhry & Partners

ESTABLISHED IN 1983

Total number of professionals: 68 (15 partners)
Principal office: New Delhi
Other offices: Gurugram

Key practice areas

Intellectual property; licensing & franchising; IP and non-IP litigation; mergers & acquisitions; dispute resolution; arbitration.

Our services

Rahul Chaudhry & Partners is a leading intellectual property rights law firm with a distinguished reputation of providing trusted legal solutions and comprehensive advisory services to its clients for almost 40 years. Previously known as Lall, Lahiri & Salhotra (LLS), the firm offers comprehensive legal solutions to clients across all industries. Over the years, it has received much recognition from the industry and clients, which is a testimony to the firm’s capabilities.

With a dedicated team of experienced and proficient attorneys, patent agents, scientific and engineering experts, life sciences experts and, in two locations, the firm advises a diverse and large set of domestic and global clients towards contentious and non-contentious matters relating to various IP assets such as trademarks, copyrights, patents, geographical indications and design, plant varieties and biodiversity. Our services include IP analytics, strategy, innovation management and protection, IP and non-IP litigation, operational strategies and data protection, domain name disputes, third party negotiations/investigations, due diligence for acquisitions/divestitures, anti-counterfeiting and anti-infringement actions, global filing strategies and corporate IP transactional agreements. Apart from Indian IP laws, the firm also advises and assists its clients regarding the protection of their IP rights in neighbouring jurisdictions such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar etc.

Over the years the firm has developed a unique skill set, specialising in the prosecution, enforcement and litigation of IP rights in India as well as several other jurisdictions, offering reliable legal counsel to both national and international clients. The firm has been responsible for IP portfolios of some of the largest names that make up the Fortune 500 companies and has assisted a large number of clients before courts, as well as in quasi and non-judicial forums. The firm’s commitment to provide legally and strategically sound advice to clients is what sets it apart.

Rahul Chaudhry, the managing partner of the firm, has carved a niche for himself by becoming a leader in the practice of IP in India, due to his strong grasp of the law and ability to provide innovative solutions in line with legal realities. Chaudhry’s expertise in the management and enforcement of IP rights of his clients spans a wide range of practice areas and industries, relating to intellectual property. Under his leadership, the expansion of the firm has been all-encompassing, covering a tremendous increase in the client base, revenue, prestige, as well as the size of the firm.

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Testimonials

“Rahul Chaudhry has been very attentive and consistently follows up on the status of open matters,” says Vanessa Ignacio, a New Jersey-based partner and chair of trademark, copyright and trade secrets at Lowenstein Sandler. Narinder Kumar, group CFO at VLCC, says the firm benefits from a “young, hungry, motivated and professional team to deliver results”.

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Grant Monachino at Dinsmore in the US says: “What stands out for me is how high [the firm] sets the bar for the service they provide, routinely gets over that bar and makes exceptional service par for the course for the firm.”

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Bridgette Fitzpatrick, vice president and associate general counsel for intellectual property at Authentic Brands Group in New York, says they have more than 160 registrations in India covering their many brands and “each is well represented by Rahul’s firm”.

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