Khaitan & Co acted as India legal counsel to The University of Western Australia, one of the top-ranked universities in the world, on setting up campuses in Mumbai and Chennai in India.
UWA will offer a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at its Mumbai and Chennai campuses, including AI, data science, IT, and business administration. It is expected that the campuses will become fully operational later this year.
The core team consisted of Vivek Sriram (Partner), Sanchit Agarwal (Partner), Ritu Shaktawat (Partner), Shivangi Mishra (Associate), Anuraag Bukkapatnam (Associate), Rexey Soosan Sabu (Associate) and Krisha Ajay Shah (Associate) with assistance from the following:
Education regulatory aspects: Sanchit Agarwal (Partner), Romit Kohli (Senior Associate), and Shivangi Mishra (Associate)
Direct taxation law aspects: Ritu Shaktawat (Partner), Sneh Shah (Partner), and Anuraag Bukkapatnam (Associate)
Indirect taxation law aspects: Mayank Jain (Partner), Ayush Mehrotra (Partner), Sudipta Bhattacharjee (Partner), Brijesh Kothary (Partner), Arjyadeep Roy (Principal Associate), Upkar Agarwal (Principal Associate), Rajshree Lohia (Senior Associate), Saundarya Sinha (Senior Associate) and Varsha Goel (Senior Associate)
Employment law aspects: Abhinav Rastogi (Partner), Vinay Joy (Partner) and Darsha Prakash (Associate)
Intellectual property law aspects: Shailendra Bhandare (Partner), Shamika Bhagwat (Senior Associate), Vaishali Adhikari (Senior Associate)
Real estate law aspects: Avnish Sharma (Partner), Nilesh Chaudhary (Counsel), Hardik Harjani (Senior Associate), Subhashini Pandey (Senior Associate)
Data privacy law aspects: Supratim Chakraborty (Partner), Shramana Dwibedi (Principal Associate)
