Ketan Pastakia

Ketan Pastakia focuses on practice areas like intellectual property, commercial litigation, telecommunications, technology, technology transactions, mergers & acquisitions. He serves as an associate in the Technology Transactions Group of the Merger & Acquisition Practice of the law firm, White & Case LLP.

He advises clients in transactions involving the development, acquisition, transfer, and licensing of intellectual property and technology. He represents companies in different types of industries such as Internet software, mobile devices, semiconductor technology, hardware manufacturing, and medical services.

Attorney Pastakia has a rich experience with data privacy protection, joint ventures, cloud computing, joint development, and strategic alliances, open source issues, hardware and software licensing, and distribution and supply agreements.

He has also represented clients in matters related to complex patent litigation. He also has experience with invalidity and non-infringement contentions, pre-suit investigations, expert reports and depositions, document discovery, and inter partes reviews.

He obtained Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1993, and completed Master of Science in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994.

He served as a senior technical analyst and project manager for telecommunications companies for many years before attending law school. He earned his Juris Doctorate from the Rutgers School of Law in 2007. He also served as an Editor of Rutgers Law Review.

He has obtained admission to practice law in the New York State Bar, the New Jersey State Bar, the Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. He can speak English and Gujarati languages.