O’Melveny Worldwide
Areas of Focus
Areas of Focus
  • Multiple coverage cases that established favorable precedents related to COVID-19 property damage and communicable disease claims.
  • Member of the team that convinced a Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to reject the consolidation of hundreds of pandemic-related coverage actions, helping the industry avoid “what could have been one of the most consequential MDLs in US litigation history,” according to news reports.
  • Representing an insurer in all phases of litigation related to coverage claims for planes stranded by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  • Obtained summary adjudication based on a policy’s No Voluntary Payments Clause after a water district assumed millions in remediation costs with no notice to the insurer.
  • Erased tens of millions of dollars in potential coverage for default judgments after unearthing evidence that a former policyholder had been suspended for failure to pay taxes and framing a creative statute of limitations argument.
  • Won summary judgment based on rescission after substituting for prior counsel and establishing that the policyholder, despite having already prevailed in a phase-one coverage ruling, had made material misrepresentations on its insurance application.

Languages

  • Hindi
  • Kannada

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • California

Education

  • University of Southern California, J.D., Order of the Coif
  • University of Southern California, B.A., Film Studies

Honors & Awards

  • Recognized by Chambers USA for Insurance: Insurer (2026)
  • Recommended by The Legal 500 US for Insurance: Advice to Insurers (2020-2026)
  • Named to The Legal 500 US “Next Generation Lawyer” list in the Insurance: Advice to Insurers category (2018-2019)