Pooja S. Nair

Ms. Nair is a business litigator with a focus on the food and beverage sector. She advises food and beverage clients, startups, and other businesses on a comprehensive range of issues, including employment, trade secrets, partnership disputes, contract negotiations, and intellectual property. Ms. Nair focuses on finding creative, long-term solutions to business problems affecting companies of all sizes, from startups to publicly traded entities. She combines her litigation experience with a strategic perspective, so that legal decisions make sense on a business level. Ms. Nair has published extensively on business law and food and beverage legal issues for publications including Law 360, Daily Journal, Eater, California Lawyer, and Bloomberg BNA. Additionally, she writes a bi-monthly column for Modern Restaurant Management, covering legal developments that impact restaurants. In previous years, Ms. Nair was the head of the Food and Beverage practice group at TroyGould. She also spent five years at Foley & Lardner focused on white collar criminal defense and internal investigations. Ms. Nair is active in the community and serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Music and Arts School and the Harvard Club of Southern California.