Jyotsna Balakrishnan
Foreign Legal Consultant
jbalakrishnan(at)dickinsonwright.com
Phone: 313.223.3084
Fax: 313.223.3598
Areas of Practice Emphasis
- Corporate
- Licensing and Technology Transfer
- Intellectual Property
- International
Prominent Assignments
- Prominent assignments were while with Anand and Anand Advocates, New Delhi, India, July 2003 - May 2006
- Advised India's largest business conglomerate on a media joint venture with their European partner
- Advised multinational clients on foreign investment options and modalities as well as structuring of joint ventures
- Formulated strategy for a large multinational luxury goods company on its counterfeiting problem in India; conducted
ground investigations; obtained court orders and conducted enforcement actions
- Negotiated, drafted and reviewed many technology transfer, non-disclosure and intellectual property license and assignment agreements for multinational corporations
- Researched and drafted complaints for international domain name disputes including a ccTLD dispute filed in India on
behalf of a American toy company
- Researched and drafted opinions on taxation and transfer pricing issues
- Researched and drafted opinions on privacy, trademark and media law matters for numerous clients
Education
- Columbia Law School, New York, NY L.L.M., May '07
-Honors: J.N. Tata Endowment Scholarship; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), June '03
-Honors: Student Editor, Indian Journal of Environmental Law
Admitted to Practice
- Not admitted in Michigan
- Admitted in India
- Member, Bar Council of Delhi, India
Publications and Presentations
- Panelist: INDIA: A Developing Market for U.S. Companies, May 23, 2007. Organized by the U.S. Commerce Department and the Michigan District Export Council (MDEC).
- Sports events & the 'hot news' test, The Economic Times, April 5, 2006.
- Speaker: Using the Copyright System to Add Value for Marketing Handicrafts: Indian Case Studies, at the National Seminar on Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for Handicrafts, Hyderabad, April 3-5, 2005. Organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Environmental Non-governmental Organizations on the International Plane, 3 Indian Journal of Environmental Law 54 (2002).
- When Comparisons are Odious: Comparative Advertising & Disparagement, 13 Student Advocate 208 (2001).
Languages
- English (fluent)
- Hindi and Tamil (fluent)
- French (basic)
