Kochhar & Co.

Corporate / M&A, Corporate Governance, Compliance & Advisory, Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Life Sciences, Projects & Infrastructure

Senior Partner

Kaveri is a Senior Partner and Co-Head in the Firm’s Hyderabad office. She has over 18 years of diverse and extensive experience across law firms and corporates in India & USA in the area of corporate commercial laws.

Kaveri’s practice focuses on corporate advisory with special emphasis on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, employment and labour law, infrastructure law, contracts and corporate litigation. Kaveri has represented government bodies, purchasers, sellers and their financial advisors in a wide variety of cross border transactions.

Kaveri has industry specific experience in the areas of pharmaceuticals and life sciences, IT & ITes, Aviation, Infrastructure including roads and bridges, power (conventional and renewal), oil & gas, retail, education and precious metals & gemstones . She has substantive experience in regulatory laws and has appeared before the various High Courts, Civil Courts and sectoral tribunals such as the NCLT in India.

Kaveri has advised on broad range of employment and labour law issues, including employment agreements, transition of employees in M&A transactions, workplace policies and procedures, executive departures, post-employment non-competition and non- solicitation agreements, wage disputes, advisory on wrongful termination and discrimination, advisory on sexual harassment proceedings, advisory on social security benefits such as provident fund, maternity benefits, gratuity, contract labour arrangements etc.

Kaveri brings to the table international experience from her association with the New York State Bar Association. She has represented clients before the New York State Supreme Court.

Kaveri is known for her client focused approach and brings her varied experience and innovative thinking to provide solutions to complex problems on a wide range of legal issues.

Prior to joining Kochhar & Co., Kaveri has worked with prominent law firms in Delhi, Hyderabad and New York.

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New York State Bar Association Karnataka State Bar Council Telangana High Court Advocates Association

LL.M., New York University LL.B., Campus Law Centre, Delhi University B A (Hons), Lady Shriram College, Delhi University