Harsha Aswani is a Senior Associate working with the Litigation Team at IIPRD and Khurana & Khurana. Harsha has an experience of over 3 years and is actively involved in drafting, vetting, structuring, and summarising various agreements related to intellectual property laws, including product design agreements, technology transfer agreements, IP assignment agreements, collaborative research agreements, master service agreements, non-disclosure agreements, fintech-related agreements, privacy policies, employment agreements and letters, POSH policies, and a wide range of commercial agreements, including joint venture agreements, share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements. Harsha also works extensively on agreements related to media and entertainment law, including option agreements, showrunner agreements, talent-management agreements, artist-endorsement agreements, celebrity-service agreements, line-production agreements, in-film/show-integration agreements, and exploitation of satellite-rights agreements. During the association with Advocate Ritisha Mukherjee (Attorney, Media & Entertainment Law), Harsha assisted in script clearances, OTT compliances, and drafting domestic and overseas film-distribution agreements, music-distribution agreements, legal opinions, and related documentation. Harsha holds an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Rights from National Law University, Jodhpur, and received a Gold Medal for academic excellence. Harsha is also a WIPO alumna, having been selected as one of the top 52 global participants (and one of the youngest from India) in the 12th Advanced International Certificate Course (AICC) on “IP Asset Management for Business Success”, organised by WIPO, KIPO, KIPA, and KAIST in 2021. WIPO gave her the opportunity to actively engage in healthy discussions and negotiations related to licensing of IP with people from different demographics & backgrounds. Harsha also has a keen interest in designing and drafting customised trade-secret protection policies for organisations and employees handling identified trade secrets/confidential information.
