Geeta Daswani
Associate
Corporate & Commercial
E: geeta.daswani@kingsley-wood.com
Geeta is a dual-qualified solicitor (England & Wales- 2017, and India-2012) specialising in commercial and corporate law. She founded and ran her own legal practice for 6 years before deciding to start working as a consultant solicitor. Extremely client focused, Geeta was awarded the 2022 Reisman Award for Excellence in Client Service and the 2023 Silver Winner Best Businesswomen Awards for Best Customer Service.

about
Geeta is a dual-qualified solicitor (England & Wales- 2017, and India-2012) specialising in commercial and corporate law. She founded and ran her own legal practice for 6 years before deciding to start working as a consultant solicitor. Extremely client focused, Geeta was awarded the 2022 Reisman Award for Excellence in Client Service and the 2023 Silver Winner Best Businesswomen Awards for Best Customer Service.
Recent Matters
my work
Assisted and represented a Performing Arts school on a joint venture transaction with a renowned University in the UK
- Provided a medical tourism business with contracts, waivers and patient informed consent forms in compliance with insurance requirements
- Assisted a VC with funding/investment related agreements and documents in relation to its investment in tech start-ups in the UK and in India
- Assisted clients in construction and interior designing on RIBA, JCT and BIID contracts
- As a consultant assisted a UAE based firm on commercial and corporate work in the UAE
- Assisted an Indian pharmaceutical conglomerate on an asset purchase transaction in the UK
- Regularly provide clients with water-tight agreements
- Regularly provide start-ups with legal support such as providing terms and conditions, service agreements and privacy policies for their business
- Regularly provide corporate clients with contracts such as Shareholders’ Agreements, Director’s Service Agreements and miscellaneous documents including Articles of Association and Board Resolutions, among others
- Provide clients with advice on contractual aspects of Intellectual Property Law such as trade mark, and copyright licenses and assignments
- Provide employment contracts and independent contractor agreements to clients
Interest
about me
Outside of work you will find Geeta at the gym, catching up with friends over endless cups of tea or being her dog’s playmate.
Awards & Experience
my expertise
- Representing an Italian public authority (a Region) in five claims issued before the High Court by various international banks in connection with swaps transactions with a cumulative value in the hundreds of millions.
- Advising regularly on settlement agreements between employers and employees
- Acting for an executive on a £500k+ claim against his employer, a world-leading credit rating agency.
- Advising regularly on the service of overseas judicial documents in England and Wales and enforcement of overseas judgments in England and Wales.
- Admitted to the Roll of Solicitors (England & Wales)
- Admitted as an Advocate to the Bar Council of India
- Master of Laws (Intellectual Property Law), King’s College London
- Bachelor of Laws (Indian Law Society (ILS Law College)), India
- U.S Business Law Academy (Summer School), Columbia Law School, New York