Delhi, India: Ascendus Law Partners is pleased to announce the joining of Anahita Mukherjee as Counsel, strengthening the firm’s media and entertainment practice.

Anahita is a specialist media and entertainment lawyer with nearly a decade of in-house experience at some of India’s most prominent studios and networks including Fox Star Studios, Disney Star, The Walt Disney Company and Maddock Films. Her work has spanned the full spectrum of content deals, from development through distribution, covering chain of title, rights availability, production and co-production documentation, talent engagements, content licensing, music syndication, brand placements and distribution and syndication agreements across theatrical, television and digital platforms.

Anahita graduated from Symbiosis Law School, Pune with a B.B.A. LL.B. degree.

Commenting on Anahita’s joining, Vasundhra Minocha, Founding Partner at Ascendus Law Partners, said, “Anahita has spent a decade on the other side of the table, inside studios and networks, structuring content deals from development through to distribution. That experience adds real depth to a practice we are already building and it will help us grow it faster and serve clients better. Media and entertainment is a priority area for the firm and she is central to how we intend to build it. We are delighted to welcome Anahita to Ascendus.”

While Anahita Mukherjee said, “I am thrilled to be joining Vasundhra and Siddharth at Ascendus Law Partners. We have known each other for nearly 15 years, and it has been wonderful to see what they have built and achieved with Ascendus. I am very excited to now be part of this journey, to bring my experience in media and entertainment law to the firm and to collaborate with them and the wider team as we continue to build, grow and scale Ascendus together. While media and entertainment will continue to be at the heart of my practice, I am equally excited about the new and diverse avenues that Ascendus will open up for me to apply my experience, expand my skill set and continue to evolve as a lawyer.”