Rajiv is one of the leading expert lawyers with over 29 years of multi-jurisdictional experience having worked in UAE & India specializing in the field of Intellectual Property laws, Corporate and Commercial laws, IT, Media and Contracts. He qualified as a lawyer in 1994 after obtaining degree in law and since then he has practiced as an Advocate/Legal Consultant in various capacities. Rajiv also has an honours degree in Science with Chemistry as main subject.

Rajiv’s current role with Firm is of Senior Associate. He is looking after the Intellectual Property, Corporate and Commercial matters including media laws & contracts. His expertise lies at handling both contentious and non-contentious issues and advises clients on strategies involving a wide range of corporate and intellectual property matters covering both prosecution and enforcement. He has been involved in managing corporate portfolios across various industries. His forte lies in drafting and vetting varied forms of commercial agreements/contracts, technical knowhow agreement, licensing arrangements including third party/vendor contracts, non-disclosure agreements, data protection laws including those covered by GDPR, manufacturing of goods agreement, business development and service agreement, brand acquisition agreement, intellectual property assignment deed/s, etc.

In 2008 Rajiv’s name appeared in the August edition of the ‘Who’s Who legal’ publication of UK as being a “notable practitioner” in UAE. He has also been recognized as being one amongst “Recommended lawyers – Trademark Prosecution/Litigation” – by Leaders League Intelligence Report & Directory Series, years 2017, 2018 & “Highly Recommended” for 2020/2021. In 2019, Rajiv’s name appeared as a ranked prosecution lawyer in Managing Intellectual Property (MIP). His name was also listed in World’s Leading Trademarks professionals by World Trademarks Review (WTR) for the years 2020, 2021, & 2022 for India, and years 2023 & 2024 for UAE. Rajiv’s name also appears in the list of IP experts compiled by AsiaIP for the years 2021 and 2022. He was awarded Certificate of Appreciation from the ‘LexisNexis Middle East’ for authoring 35 practical notes on varied Federal laws in UAE. His views as an expert legal counsel on local UAE laws have also appeared in Gulf News.

Rajiv has been an ex-member of two INTA committees:

1. Famous and Well-Known Marks.         
2.  Non-Traditional Trademarks.

He has extensively authored/co-authored several articles for leading legal publications and has been a speaker at seminars and webinars.