The University of Western Australia is setting up campuses in Mumbai and Chennai in India.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer advised The University of Western Australia on setting up their India campus. The Firm advised the University on all aspects of the project, including corporate and structuring, contractual aspects, intellectual property, employment, and real estate, working with Indian counsel.
The transaction was led by Siddhartha Shukla (Partner and Head of the India practice) and Lucy Curran (Partner), along with Partners Josh Lom, Nick Wright, Kathryn Coveney, Nick Pantlin, Jonathan Turnbull, and Tim Healey.
The wider cross-practice team included Miriam Everett, Adelaide Luke, Hayley Brady, Kate Meakin, Meera Thakrar, Ananya Bajpai, Iris Gao, Charles Cunningham, Terence Lau, Duc Tran, Adam Janmohamed, Emma Sherratt, Adam Morris, Perminder Gainda, Mark Khouri, Lachlan Taylor, Eleanor Swift, Toni Mathers, Ryu Long, Holly Regan, Rahul Prakash, Ieva Fiddes, and Georgie Green.
Khaitan & Co acted as the Indian legal counsel for The University of Western Australia.
The transaction team consisted of Vivek Sriram (Partner), Sanchit Agarwal (Partner), Ritu Shaktawat (Partner), Associates Shivangi Mishra, Anuraag Bukkapatnam, Rexey Soosan Sabu and Krisha Ajay Shah. The following provided assistance from the following:
Education regulatory aspects: Sanchit Agarwal (Partner), Romit Kohli (Senior Associate), and Shivangi Mishra (Associate)
Direct taxation law aspects: Ritu Shaktawat (Partner), Sneh Shah (Partner), and Anuraag Bukkapatnam (Associate)
Indirect taxation law aspects: 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: Abhinav Rastogi (Partner), Vinay Joy (Partner) and Darsha Prakash (Associate)
Intellectual property law aspects: Shailendra Bhandare (Partner), Shamika Bhagwat (Senior Associate), Vaishali Adhikari (Senior Associate)
Real estate law aspects: Avnish Sharma (Partner), Nilesh Chaudhary (Counsel), Hardik Harjani (Senior Associate), Subhashini Pandey (Senior Associate)
Data privacy law aspects: Supratim Chakraborty (Partner), Shramana Dwibedi (Principal Associate)
University of Western Australia will offer a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at its Mumbai and Chennai campuses, including AI, data science, IT, and business administration. It is expected that the campuses will become fully operational later this year.
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