{"id":63,"date":"2024-06-10T05:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:12:57","slug":"our-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"Our People"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>\u00a0\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=153\"><strong>Nilesh Prasad<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=153\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Nilesh-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-66 size-thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=153\">View Profile<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=157\"><strong>Manisha Kumar<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=157\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manisha-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-198 size-thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=157\">View Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=161\"><strong>Preeti Verma<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=161\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Preeti-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67 size-thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=161\">View Profile<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=165\"><strong>Ashna Dutt<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=165\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ashna-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-197 size-thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/?page_id=165\">View Profile<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--\n<strong>Nilesh Prasad, LL.B &amp; Notary Public (Fiji, 2000)<\/strong>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Nilesh-203x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Nilesh-203x300.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Nilesh-694x1024.jpeg 694w, https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Nilesh-768x1133.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Nilesh-1041x1536.jpeg 1041w, https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Nilesh.jpeg 1220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>\nNilesh was admitted to the High Court of Fiji in 2000 and has been with the firm since. He was made a partner in 2008 and became the principal in 2016.\n\nNilesh was appointed as a Notary Public in 2016 with an indefinite commission.\n\nHis practice areas include almost all aspects of commercial and business law; commercial advisory, commercial litigation, intellectual property law, employment and labour law, foreign investment, banking, finance &amp; security documentation, debt recovery &amp; creditors\u2019 remedies, bankruptcy &amp; insolvency, admiralty &amp; maritime law, taxation law and due diligence.\n\nNilesh has particular and significant experience in trade mark matters and manages large trade mark portfolios for varied local and international clients. Nilesh attends to trade marks registration, search &amp; clearance, watching, monitoring &amp; investigation, oppositions &amp; non-use, portfolio management, litigation &amp; enforcements, renewal and packaging &amp; labelling.\n\nHe also files applications for patents, designs and domain names for clients.\n\nNilesh is a member of INTA.\n\n<a href=\"mailto:nilesh.prasad@mitchellkeil.com.fj\">Email Nilesh<\/a>\n\n<strong>Shiristi Kumar LL.B, PDLP (Fiji, 2020)<\/strong>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Shiristi-232x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Shiristi-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Shiristi-768x992.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Shiristi.jpeg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>\nShiristi was admitted to the High Court of Fiji in 2020 and worked for another private practice based in Suva since October 2020 where she practiced in the area of civil and criminal litigation, family law and real estate conveyancing.\n\nShe joined Mitchell Keil in October 2021 as a Solicitor. Her practice areas include debt recovery and creditors\u2019 remedies, commercial law advisory and litigation, family law and selected criminal law matters.\n\nIn August 2024 Shiristi was appointed as a Senior Solicitor.\n\nShiristi is a member of the Fiji Law Society and Fiji Women Lawyers Association.\n\n<a href=\"mailto:shiristi.kumar@mitchellkeil.com.fj\">Email Shiristi<\/a>\n\n<strong>Preeti Verma LL.B, PDLP, B.Bus, PGDip BusMgt (Fiji, 2021)<\/strong>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Preeti-300x295.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Preeti-300x295.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Preeti-768x756.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Preeti.jpeg 893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\nPreeti was admitted to the High Court of Fiji in November 2021.\n\nShe was awarded the Gold Medal Prize for most outstanding Bachelor of Law student at the University of the South Pacific.\n\nPrior to becoming a lawyer Preeti completed her Bachelor in Business Marketing in June 2005 and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management in June 2006 from the Central Queensland University. Preeti worked as a Marketing Analyst for a national FMCG company after that.\n\nPreeti joined Mitchell Keil in December 2021 as a Solicitor. Prior to this she worked for the firm as a Legal Executive for the period January 2020 to December 2020.\n\nIn July 2024 Preeti was appointed as an Associate.\n\nHer practice areas include banking law, intellectual property law, wills &amp; estate matters, commercial law advisory &amp; litigation, real estate conveyance, debt recovery, employment law, immigration law, selected family law matters.\n\nPreeti is a member of Fiji Women Lawyers Association and the Fiji Law Society.\n\n<a href=\"mailto:preeti.verma@mitchellkeil.com.fj\">Email Preeti<\/a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n--><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Nilesh Prasad View Profile Manisha Kumar View Profile Preeti Verma View Profile Ashna Dutt View Profile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellkeil.com.fj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}