Our Attorneys

AARON SOLOMON

Aaron Solomon is a qualified Indian solicitor and advocate. Aaron has practiced law based in Mumbai since 1994 gaining extensive experience in international commercial and corporate matters. He is a fourth-generation solicitor, and is a gold medallist at the Solicitors exam of the Bombay Incorporated Law Society in 1996. Aaron graduated from St. Xavier's, Mumbai with a ‘Political Science’ specialization in 1992, and thereafter studied law at Government Law College, Mumbai.

Aaron has expertise in mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures & collaborations, corporate & commercial laws, banking & finance, capital markets & securities laws, technology, media and telecommunications, outsourcing, intellectual property, international trade and customs laws and other specialist practice areas. He has assisted several of the world’s largest multinationals and Fortune 500 companies on their businesses and activities in India.

Aaron’s experience on intellectual property laws includes:

• Structuring intellectual property licensing/assignment transactions.
• Drafting intellectual property license agreements.
• Drafting intellectual property assignment agreements including production agreements, artiste agreements and media contracts.
• Protection of software copyright and patents.
• Actions for protection of brand-names and IP portfolios.
• Drafting outsourcing agreements.
• Registration of trademarks and copyright.
• Transfer and assignment of trademarks, copyright and patents.
• Anti-counterfeiting actions under Indian civil and criminal laws.
• Passing-off actions and infringement actions under Indian trademark laws.
• Actions under Indian Information Technology laws for preventing illegal access to copyrighted works.
• Actions against parallel marketing and gray marketing of goods.
• Cross-border issues, strategies and actions.

MAHUA ROY CHOWDHURY

Mahua Roy Chowdhury is a qualified advocate and a registered Patent Attorney. Mahua holds a LLM in Intellectual Property Law from Franklin Pierce (now Pierce Law), USA. She has practiced at the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India and has represented the Faculty of Law, Delhi University before the High Court and District Courts. Mahua has extensive experience in criminal and civil litigation.

Mahua has conducted lectures on intellectual property and other matters at the GGSIP University and its associate institutes at Delhi. She also addresses senior executives of our clients in in-house IP orientation workshops.

Mahua was earlier the head of the IP practice group of a well known corporate law firm in Mumbai. As Head of IP practice group of a well known firm, Mahua had initiated and led successfully HP Anti-Counterfeiting actions during 2002-2005. She has coordinated around 400 criminal IP enforcement actions (raids) for HP throughout India. She was also responsible for procuring injunctions against prime counterfeiters from Delhi High Court.

Her other leading assignments include:

• Strategizing various actions for IT companies to combat counterfeiting in India and execution of the same. Day-to-day co-ordination with investigation agencies, police and local counsel in 40 cities across India. Successfully initiated criminal and civil actions against counterfeiters.
• Initiated formation of a core group of IT companies like HP, Microsoft, Epson, Canon, Logitech etc. to combat counterfeiting and piracy under the aegis of MAIT (Manufacturers’ Association of IT companies). Successfully organized workshops under the aegis of MAIT for Police, Customs officials and Public Prosecutors in several cities across India.
• Liaised with Police and Customs officials for promoting IP enforcement and amending existing Customs laws. Preparing and regularly updating an online IP informative site called ‘Border Watch’ for Baker & McKenzie, UK.

Germaine Pereira

Germaine Pereira holds a Masters Degree in Science and has specialized in Biotechnology. She is a registered Attorney. Ms. Pereira is actively involved with the Intellectual Property practice at Solomon & Roy, a division of Solomon & Co. and has assisted in in-house workshops related to Intellectual Property for Sr Executives of our IT clients.

She is also a part of the Corporate team of Solomon & Co, and has worked on projects related to incorporation of Companies, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, drafting of security documentation, rehabilitation of sick companies.

Prior to working with Solomon & Co., Germaine was an Independant Consultant with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in advisory capacity, advising on issues related to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and other such industries that require challenging investments in innovation and discovery. She has also advised clients in matters related to acquisition, sale and licensing of such rights; thereby nurturing their R&D center “The Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre” (IRCC) for a period of 4 years.

Amit Jatkar

Amit Jatkar is an Associate in the IP & Technology Group of Solomon & Roy. He is a qualified Automobile Engineer and a registered Attorney. He has completed Post Graduate Diploma in Patent Law and Practice from Institute of Intellectual Property Studies (IIPS), Mumbai. His practice focuses primarily on drafting and prosecution of patents.

Mr. Jatkar’s practice also includes industrial design and trademark prosecution. He advises senior Professors from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai on IPR issues related to innovative designs and technologies.

Prior to joining Solomon & Roy Intellectual Property Services Mr. Jatkar worked as Associate Attorney with a reputed legal process outsourcing firm in Mumbai.

Mr. Jatkar also holds a Diploma in German Language from University of Mumbai.