Khaitan & Co. Advises University of Western Australia on Mumbai and Chennai Campus Plans
Khaitan & Co. served as India legal counsel to The University of Western Australia (UWA) on establishing campuses in Mumbai and Chennai. UWA, described as one of the top-ranked universities in the world, will offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses at these campuses, including artificial intelligence, data science, information technology, and business administration.
The campuses are expected to become fully operational later this year.
The core team from Khaitan & Co. included Vivek Sriram (Partner), Sanchit Agarwal (Partner), Ritu Shaktawat (Partner), Shivangi Mishra (Associate), Anuraag Bukkapatnam (Associate), Rexey Soosan Sabu (Associate), and Krisha Ajay Shah (Associate).
Assistance was provided by teams covering various legal aspects: Education regulatory aspects by Sanchit Agarwal (Partner), Romit Kohli (Senior Associate), and Shivangi Mishra (Associate); Direct taxation law aspects by Ritu Shaktawat (Partner), Sneh Shah (Partner), and Anuraag Bukkapatnam (Associate); Indirect taxation law aspects by 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 by Abhinav Rastogi (Partner), Vinay Joy (Partner), and Darsha Prakash (Associate); Intellectual property law aspects by Shailendra Bhandare (Partner), Shamika Bhagwat (Senior Associate), and Vaishali Adhikari (Senior Associate); Real estate law aspects by Avnish Sharma (Partner), Nilesh Chaudhary (Counsel), Hardik Harjani (Senior Associate), and Subhashini Pandey (Senior Associate); and Data privacy law aspects by Supratim Chakraborty (Partner) and Shramana Dwibedi (Principal Associate).
Source: SCC Times