With an entrepreneurial spirit and verve convoyed with a decade of experience in handling legal matters, Sukannya founded Juris Emeralds in 2021 with a vision to become a fully digitalised law firm to cater professional, pragmatic and innovative legal solutions to a wide array of clients across sectors and segments of practice. With an international experience in research and advisory, she consults early-stage entrepreneurs and start-up founders, emerging companies, incubators and investors. She is trained in mediation and arbitration and well equipped to provide savoir-faire assistance in conflict mitigation and dispute resolution. Her specialisation includes general corporate and transactional advisory, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, foreign investment and international trade, intellectual property rights, data privacy and cyber laws. Over the last decade, she has worked on various legal issues and disputes across diversified legal segments, nationally and internationally and has advised on an array of complex legal issues including corporate matters, cybercrimes, domestic violence and child abuses, IPRs and data protection and privacy.
Currently, she serves as the Central Government Standing Counsel at the High Court of Karnataka, Bengaluru Bench and also serves as the Vice-President of the National Cybersecurity Council, WICCI (a not-for-profit company). She is 2012 alumni of Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala, Punjab from where she completed LL.M. in Business Laws (Gold Medal awardee with Distinction). She has been awarded with the Erasmus ICM Plus 2018-19 Fellowship to pursue academic research in her doctoral studies at the Queen Mary University of London, London. She believes in making affordable and quality legal support and advice available to the disadvantaged and underprivileged sections of the society. She has been invited as a speaker at various events and conferences. She regularly collaborates with different organisations on legal mentoring, training and awareness programmes.
With a distinguished career that spans five decades, Subhash Chandra Acharya is a highly regarded legal professional celebrated for his expertise in civil, criminal, banking and financial laws, litigation and dispute resolution with a practising stint at the High Court of Assam and various courts of the North-Eastern states of India. His extensive experience and unwavering dedication to upholding the principles of justice have firmly established him as a trusted counsel and advisor and an indispensable asset to our law firm. Throughout his practice, he has been at the forefront of numerous civil and criminal cases, representing individuals, corporations, and institutions in complex disputes. His in-depth knowledge of the various laws and remarkable advocacy skills have resulted in successful resolutions for clients in myriad legal matters. Besides being a sage counsel, he is also an accomplished author with a collection of books and a portfolio of articles spanning a spectrum of legal domains. He has contributed significantly to the legal field through scholarly publications and speaking engagements at conferences and seminars. His insights and contributions have enriched the legal discourse in India. With five decades of legal wisdom, he continues to be a guiding force in the legal landscape, offering unwavering dedication, exceptional legal acumen, and a legacy of success to our clients and the legal community as a whole.
Dinesh is the partner and strategic advisor of the firm with over 8 years of domestic and international experience of looking into corporate/commercial advisory in the Indian, APEC, European and the US markets. He has successfully represented clients globally in a wide array of cross border transactions and investments. He principally adheres to a time centric and outcome driven delivery of work with a rational and integrated approach to address the clients' specific needs. With a diversified experience in complex commercial matters and legal operations globally, he works diligently to analyse merits and minimise risks, propelling effective resolution of commercial disputes at domestic and international markets.
He graduated in 2010 from the Department of Law, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya.
A former IES officer who served across various ministries of the Government of India as an Economic Advisor, he currently practices law at the Supreme Court of India and High Court, New Delhi. He last served the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India as Senior Economic Adviser. He had worked with various Ministries in his tenure as a public servant such as the Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Planning Commission, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Agriculture, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Rural Development Programming Evaluation Organisation (PEO) and for the Government of Odisha. He served as the Chairman and Managing Director of a CPSE and Chief Vigilance Officer of Planning Commission, Unique Identification Authority of India, Institute of Applied Manpower Research and National Rainfed Authority of India. He has hands-on experience of various laws across industries and sectors of the economy. He is an alumnus of University of Glasgow and University of California, IIM (Lucknow). He had also received various trainings from the IMF, ILO, NLSIU (Bangalore), IIT (Kharagpur), IIM (Bangalore), Administrative Staff College (Hyderabad). He regularly provides training sessions and lectures on varied economic issues cutting across different fields of study to wide ranging audience, at the public and private level.
Vivek Shukla is practising as an Advocate at Lucknow High Court. He has over fifteen years of experience in handling cases related to Criminal Law, Cyber Law, Consumer Law, IPR, and Family Disputes etc. He is also associated with the Legal Literacy and Legal Awareness Programme, the Center for Environmental Law, Education, Research and Advocacy, National Law School of India University Bengaluru (CEERA-NLSIU), Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. he provides professional services as a Subject Matter Expert in Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS). He completed his LL.M (Business Laws) from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru and joined the Law School in the year 2013 as a Research Assistant at Cyber Law & Forensic Centre. He was also a Legal Research Consultant (CIPRA-NLSIU) for the Jharkhand IPR Project.