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Srinivas Kotni

Advocate & Company Secretary

Phone: +91-98112 82863
E-Mail: kotni@lexport.in

Srinivas Kotni is the Founder & Managing Partner and the moving force behind Lexport. He has been handling a variety of legal, corporate and taxation issues for close to last two decades. Prior to setting up Lexport in 2000, he was a Consultant/Attorney with a leading firm of Attorneys specialising in the areas of Corporate & Commercial Laws, Indirect Taxation and Intellectual Property Rights.

Srinivas has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the University of Delhi and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He is also a Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and holds Post Graduate Diplomas in Industrial Relations & Personnel Management, Information Technology & Management (equivalent to Masters in Computer Applications) and an Advanced Diploma in Systems Management.

Srinivas also holds Professional Affiliations to the Bar Council of Delhi, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Supreme Court Bar Association, CESTAT Bar Association and the All India Management Association.

Raj Latha Kotni

Advocate & Registered Patent Agent

Phone: +91-9899978082
E-Mail: rajlatha@lexport.in

Raj Latha Kotni heads Lexports Intellectual Property wing. She has earlier worked as a Nutrition Consultant with Apollo Hospitals Group and with a leading IP law firm as a Consultant and Associate for several years. Her expertise is in the area of Patents includes counseling on issues relating to patent validity and infringement including rendering patentability opinions, drafting technology transfer and know-how agreements, trade secret agreements, licenses, assignments and preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the field of Life Sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and biochemistry. She also has expertise in various aspects of prosecution and enforcement of trademarks and copyrights on behalf of both domestic and overseas clients including rendering opinions, drafting registered user agreements and assignments, developing general strategies for acquisition, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights and handling adversarial oppositions and cancellation proceedings before the Intellectual Property Office

Raj Latha holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from CCS University, Bachelor’s degree in Science from Andhra University and a Master’s degree in Food Science and Biochemistry from Padmavathi University. She has also qualified the Patent Agents Examination from the Patent Office.

Raj Latha is a Member of the Bar Council of Delhi.

Rajiv Sawhney

Advocate

Phone: +91-98999 00918
E-Mail: rajiv@lexport.in

Chandrahas Mathur

Former IRS, Senior Advisor & Consultant

Phone: +91-98992 99297
E-Mail: cmathur@lexport.in

Chandrahas Mathur is a former Indian Revenue Service (I.R.S) officer. He retired in 2013 after 35 years of distinguished Government service at the highest levels. He was Chief Commissioner, Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax, and then served as Member Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax Settlement Commission for two years.

He has worked throughout the country and covered every aspect of the Indirect Taxation work at all levels from the Government side. He has also worked in the Policy Wing in the Finance Ministry, apart from as a Commissioner and Chief Commissioner at the field level, and has twice headed the zonal units of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (D.R.I).

He has been associated with the preparatory work for Goods & Services Tax, - G.S.T. He headed the sub-group on “Dispute Resolution under the GST, during the deliberations at Chief Commissioners Conference in 2011, on GST.

During 2014, he worked with the Tax Administration Reforms Commission, (T.A.R.C).

During his service he held regular interactions with trade and industry, helping resolve long-standing problems within the ambit of law and proactively promoting trade facilitation, receiving appreciation from the local Chambers of Commerce and the Press.

Chandrahas Mathur is a recipient of the President of India’s Award for Distinguished Record of Service and Devotion to Duty.

He was selected to function as an Election Observer for five General Elections in the country.

As an I.R.S probationer he had received the Chairman CBEC’s Gold Medal on completion of training.

Academics:

1994-1995 Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management from University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia,

1973 Master of Arts (History) from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, India.

1971 Bachelor of Arts (History Honours) from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, India

1967 Schooling from The Doon School, Dehra Dun, India

Sandeep Chatterjee

Advocate

Phone: +91-991155 8224
E-Mail: sandeep@lexport.in

Sandeep has around five years of experience both in general litigation as well as arbitration matters. During his professional career, he has mainly handled criminal and sexual harassment matters. He has also handled matters pertaining to contract, recovery, Consumer Protection Law, Marriage & Divorce Law and also litigation connected to intellectual property rights and arbitration. He also specializes in drafting, legal writing and legal research, along-with strong argumentative skills.

Sandeep is a Graduate from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, and a Post-Graduate in Political Science. Thereafter he received his Bachelor of Law degree from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi.

Sandeep is interested in criminal law, consumer law as well as arbitration.

Sandeep is a member of the Bar Council of Delhi. Also, has professional membership of Tis Hazari Bar Association

Ashima Puri Chibbar

Advocate

Phone: +91 98732 72699
E-Mail: ashima@lexport.in

A product of Kendriya Vidyalayas Ms. Ashima Puri Chhibbar graduated in Làw in the year 2008 and has been practicing law since then. She has an extensive experience in the field of Civil Law. She has been successfully handling all kinds of Civil and Corporate Commercial Litigation before the Delhi High Court and many other District Courts. Ms. Ashima Puri has been Non Executive Independent Director of Virtualsoft Systems Ltd. since October 13, 2015. Ms. Puri was invited as a Mentor to educate the girls of KL University on the Legal Rights of Women in the first National Women’s Parliament held in Amravati, Andhra Pradesh in February, 2017. She is a cyclist and a runner by Passion apart from Legal Practice which is her first love. Recently, Advocate Ashima Puri has also applied for lecturing/ teaching/ educating pro-bono the patients of the life-limit diseases.

Urvashi Kalra

Advocate

Phone: +91-97293 80374
E-Mail: urvashi@lexport.in

Ms. Urvashi Kalra has been employed with Lexport since 2016. She is a graduate from St. Bede’s College, Shimla and completed her Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat.

She is part of the Indirect Tax / GST Team at the firm. Among other things, she handles matters relating to Tax advisory, consultation and tax litigation in connection with issues under the Central Excise, Customs, Service tax and GST laws. She handles tax litigation before various Departmental and Judicial authorities.

Her areas of expertise include drafting opinions, appeals, reply to show cause notices, representations before Departmental authorities, etc.

At University level, she actively participated in Moot Court Competitions and delivered case presentations.

Urvashi is affiliated to the Bar Council of Delhi.

Akshay Kumar

Advocate

Phone: +91-82856 97273
E-Mail: akshay@lexport.in

Shantam Gorawara

Advocate

Phone: +91-70423 62390
E-Mail: shantam@lexport.in

Shantam has been associated with Lexport since August 2019.

He completed his five-year integrated B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University New Delhi.

During law school, he has interned with the corporate law teams of several Indian law firms.

In addition, he is also a qualified Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

He holds professional affiliation to the Bar Council of Delhi and the New Delhi Bar Association.

He has also completed a Diploma in Advanced Entrepreneurship Management and Corporate Laws from GNLU, along with several certificate courses in areas such as cyber laws, media laws and GST.

He is a part of the Corporate Advisory team at Lexport and deals with matters pertaining to corporate and commercial laws.

Anuraag Mehta

Advocate

Phone: +91-98183 88039
E-Mail: anuraag@lexport.in

B.B.A. - LL.B. (Hons.), The NorthCap University, Gurgaon, Haryana

Anuraag has joined the firm's litigation team. His areas of interest include Civil, Corporate and Commercial litigation with special emphasis on Insolvency, Intellectual Property Rights and Competition laws. He also supports the firm's Alternate Dispute Resolution practice.

Nupur Gupta

Phone: +91-7011514505
E-Mail: nupur@lexport.in

Nupur is a commerce graduate and an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

She is also pursuing LL.B. from Indraprastha Law College. Her work domain mainly includes consultancy in the field of corporate laws and indirect taxation./p>

Swagita Pandey

Advocate

Phone: +91-96530 59551,+91-80044 46531
E-Mail: swagita@lexport.in

Shakshi Choraria

Phone: +91-8377826295
E-Mail: shakshi@lexport.in

Adivitiya Raj

Advocate

Phone: +91 96505 75193
E-Mail: advitiya@lexport.in

Tanishka Khandelwal

Advocate

Phone: +91-98302 76332
E-Mail:tanishka@lexport.in

Tanishka has done her 5 years course of BA LLB (H) Amity Law School, Kolkata. Joined the corporate team of Lexport in 2021, has a keen interest in Corporate Laws and Intellectual Property Rights.

Vishwas Kumar Chaudhary

Advocate

Phone: +91-98302 76332
E-Mail:vishwas@lexport.in

Advocate Vishwas Kumar Chaudhary is an eminent Delhi based lawyer. His core area of expertise encompasses corporate and taxation laws. He is also a certified GST practitioner by the Government of India since 2018.
Advocate Vishwas Kumar Chaudhary is an alumnus of the prestigious Col. Brown Cambridge School, Dehradun. He completed his graduation in Commerce, B. Com., from the University of Delhi and Bachelor’s in Laws, LL.B. from Maharaja Ganga Singh University, formerly The Bikaner University, Rajasthan. He has also completed LL.M. Master’s in Laws, Corporate Laws from Amity Law School, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
In addition to this Advocate Chaudhary has also completed the Integrated Professional Competence Course, ICAI and underwent three years training in a reputed firm of Chartered Accountants based at New Delhi.