Rajiv is one of the leading expert lawyers with over 29 years of experience specialising in the field of Intellectual Property laws, Commercial and Transactional laws including contracts, information technology and media. He holds degree in Sciences and Law. He qualified as a lawyer in 1994 and since then has practiced as an Advocate/Legal Consultant.

His expertise lies at handling both contentious and non-contentious issues both in India and UAE. Rajiv advice clients on strategies involving a wide range of intellectual property matters and has been involved in managing corporate portfolios across various industries.

He has also dealt extensively on commercial and transactional matters involving drafting and vetting varied forms of commercial agreements/contracts, technical knowhow agreements, licensing issues including third party/vendor contracts, non-disclosure agreements, manufacturing of goods agreement, business development and service agreement, brand acquisition agreement, assignment deed/s, drafting and execution of Wills in UAE etc.

He has been an author/co-author of articles relating to intellectual property issues and corporate matters for some of the leading legal publications. He has been a speaker at webinars/round table/s on issues relating to intellectual property rights and non- muslim personal law in UAE.

His name appears in UK’s whoswholegal.com (WWL) 2008 for UAE, as a ranked prosecution lawyer in Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) 2019, in the list of World’s Leading Trademarks professionals by World Trademarks Review (WTR) for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023 (UAE) and in the list of IP experts compiled by AsiaIP for the years 2021 and 2022.

Rajiv is fluent in English and Hindi.