Family
Aritra Deb
FOUNDING PARTNER
Aritra is a final year B.B.A.LL.B. student at Symbiosis Law School - Hyderabad and also the Founding Partner of AmicusX. Apart from playing an active role in the management of AmicusX, he also finds his keen interest in the field of General Corporate Law, M&A, Cyber & Data Privacy Law, Competition Law and Constitutional Law. Aritra has been an active participant in multiple national and international moots on Constitutional Law and International Arbitration Law. Apart from having multiple research papers published, he has been associated with numerous institutional cells and centres that deal in corporate governance, consumer affairs, policy drafting and constitutional law and has also been the Editor-in-Chief of an institutional journal on Corporate Governance & Transparency. Aritra contributes significant hours in mentoring moot teams for his institute.
Aritra, as a team player, believes in empowering people, who help run AmicusX as smoothly as it is.
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Email: aritradeb63@gmail.com
Devika Mallik
FOUNDING PARTNER
Devika Mallik is a final year B.A.LL.B. student of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad. She is the Co-Founding Partner of AmicusX who plays an active role in the management of AmicusX. Devika finds avid interest in General Corporate Law, Transactional Corporate Law, Media Law, Arbitration Law and Constitutional Law. She has multiple research papers published in her name. She has participated in multiple national and international moots on Constitutional Law, International Law. She won the award for "Best Female Speaker" in a Constitutional Law National Moot Court Competition and thereafter devoted significant hours in mentoring moot teams for the institute. She has multiple research papers published in reputed journals. She has been associated with multiple cells and centres relating to Constitutional Law, International Relations and Corporate Governance
Devika Mallik, as a team player, believes that hard work is the way to achieve goals.
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Email: devikamallik98@gmail.com
Budhaditya Purkayastha
SENIOR EDITOR
Budhaditya Purkayastha is a 5th year law student at Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad. He has participated in a National Level Moot Court Competition and also in other national mediation competitions. He has rich experience in the field of mediation in matters of personal disputes. Apart from having keen interest in criminal laws, he is also an expert with vast knowledge of graphical processing and website designing. Other than Co-Heading the PR Committee of the Student Council for an entire academic year, he has had active contribution in all the major events of the Institute. He has achieved significant titles in multiple cinematography and photography competitions.
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Email: budhaditya.purkayastha@gmail.com
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Akshita Das
SENIOR EDITOR
Akshita Das is a 5th year law student with an avid history of debating and quizzing throughout her academic life. She's participated in numerous moots and has most recently won the International Trade Moot at SDM Law College. Her areas of interests include Policy Analysis and Corporate Law. Being an active member of the Editorial Team of Journal of Innovation, Competition and Information Law, she has been a great addition to the team.
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Email: akshita.das3010@gmail.com
Nayantara Bhattacharyya
SENIOR EDITOR
Nayantara Bhattacharyya, is a fifth-year law student pursuing B.A.LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad. She has participated in various national moot court competitions and other literary events. She is a voracious reader. Her interest lies in criminal litigation and human rights law. She has more than six research publications under her belt, some of them in reputed legal journals. Being, a mooting enthusiast, she is actively involved in mentoring teams for moot court competitions across the country. Having found her knack in human rights and social justice, she has devoted significant hours trying to establish a social equilibrium, in terms of gender equality, in her surroundings.
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Prajanya Raj Rathore
SENIOR EDITOR
Prajanya Raj Rathore is a final year B.B.A.LL.B. student of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad. He is an avid reader and has managed to get himself a cyclopean number of articles published offline and in online sources. He has immense interest in the study of Cyber Law, Intellectual Property Law, Environmental Law & Aero-Space Law. He is an excellent mooter and regularly mentors moot teams for his institute. Having headed the Cyber Law Cell of his institute, he has immense knowledge and experience in the specific fields of cyber forensics, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. He has had accolades in multiple national moot court competitions and mediation competitions.
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Email: prajanya.rathore@slsh.edu.in
Divya Kanjee
SENIOR EDITOR
Divya Kanjee is a 5th-year law student pursuing BBA LLB from Symbiosis Law School Hyderabad. Her interest lies in Intellectual Property Laws and Media and Entertainment Laws along with General Corporate. She is also an Internal Advisor to the Centre of Advancement in Media and Entertainment Laws at Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad. She has been been a semi-finalist at NLUJ 1st Deal Mediation Competition and has participated at multiple internal and external Moot Court Competitions as well.
She is someone who has been a team player and organised multiple events. She also has previous editorial experience as a Senior Editor of her school magazine.
Email: divyakanjee@gmail.com
Kingshuk Saha
SENIOR EDITOR
Kingshuk is a penultimate year BBA LLB student at Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad. He finds keen interest in Corporate Insolvency/Restructuring, M&A, International Arbitration Law and Capital Markets. He prepared the Key for the first ever National Corporate Restructuring Competition in India and has served as a Research Associate for the first of its kind capsule course in an Indian law school on the Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
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Email: kingshuksaha98@gmail.com
Our Advisors
Somdutta Bhattacharyya
Somdutta Bhattacharyya graduated from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata in 2012. He is currently a Managing Associate at Argus Partners, Kolkata. He has previously been associated with firms such as Fox & Mandal and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas prior to his current stint. His areas of specialization are commercial and civil litigation, arbitration and insolvency & bankruptcy. He takes a keen interest in legal and constitutional history. His hobbies are reading, traveling and music.
Shayak Chakraborty
Shayak Chakraborty is an Advocate of the Calcutta High Court. Having graduated B.A. LL.B.(Hons.) from Gujarat National Law University in 2013, Shayak started his career under the guidance of Tamal Kanti Mukherjee, Public Prosecutor, City Sessions Court, Kolkata. After practicing criminal law for a few years, Shayak switched to practicing civil and writ matters at the Calcutta High Court, initially practicing independently, then joining the Chambers of Samrat Sen, Senior Advocate, before finally settling in the Chambers of Jayanta Kumar Mitra, Barrister-at-law and Senior Advocate, former Advocate General of West Bengal.
Satyaki Mitra
Graduated B.A, LL.B from the University of Calcutta, and currently engaged as a Litigation Associate at Victor Moses & Co. (Solicitors, Advocates, & Trademark Attorneys) with a practice based at the Calcutta High Court. Practice areas include Arbitration matters and Civil, Commercial, and Intellectual Property Litigation. Takes a keen interest in all Social Science disciplines, especially History and Economics, apart from Law. A Fine Arts aficionado in general, and can be somewhat dubbed as an amateur poet and musician.
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