Shailendra Bhandare

Shailendra is a Partner in the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group at the Mumbai and Pune offices. With nearly two decades of experience working in boutique IP firms and IP teams of full-service firms, Shailendra’s expertise in IP extends to the entire lifecycle of IP (prosecutions, enforcements, contentious matters, management, and transactional work). He advises several multinational and domestic conglomerates including Fortune 500 companies. Similarly, he also takes special interest in pro-bono matters.

Although he focusses on trademarks, copyrights, designs and technology related matters, due to his interest in transactional IP matters, he has also advised on IP diligences, patent transactional matters, IP licensing matters, technology transfers, and media and entertainment contracts. He is also part of the Firm’s TechReg Group which focuses on technology-related matters.

He is actively involved in International Trademark Association’s (INTA) policy/advocacy initiatives in India and is the past Chair of INTA’s India Global Advisory Council, and the INTA’s Trademark Office Practices India Subcommittee. He also has co-authored articles on the developments in the Indian IP law for several publications such as World Trademark Review, Oxford’s Journal of Intellectual Property, Lexology, Mondaq, Chambers, Practical Law and World IP Review.

He also believes that it is important to impart his learnings/experience over the years to others, which he does, by teaching/training police authorities, educational institutes, Government institutes (such as Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM)) and for other initiatives such as INTA’s Unreal Campaign.

He has been recognised in various rankings including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, IP Stars, WTR 1000, WIPR Leaders, Who’s Who Legal, and IAM 300. He has also the recipient of Outstanding Practitioner (India) Award (Asialaw Regional Awards 2019) and the INTA Membership Champion Award (2022).