Keker, Van Nest & Peters is pleased to announce that the firm has elevated David Rosen, Travis Silva, and Anjali Srinivasan to its partnership effective January 1, 2022.
“David, Travis and Anjali are outstanding lawyers who embrace the culture of excellence, teamwork and exceptional client service that differentiates our firm,” Steve Taylor, Keker, Van Nest & Peters managing partner, said. “They are trusted advisors in their respective areas, and they represent the best of our profession, serving as mentors and counsellors to junior lawyers, making significant commitments to pro bono work, and focusing on improving the diversity of our firm and profession. I look forward to all they will accomplish as partners.”
David Rosen represents clients in a range of complex intellectual property litigation matters, particularly high-stakes patent and copyright cases. He has handled patent cases throughout the country for several leading technology companies, including Google, Zscaler, and Netflix. He was part of the trial team that won a defense verdict for Arista against copyright and patent infringement claims brought by Cisco related to the configuration of network switches. He also successfully defended Comcast in Delaware and in the Federal Circuit against patent infringement claims brought by Two-Way Media related to multicasting and real-time streaming, securing a judgment of invalidity for four patents under Section 101 of the Patent Act.
David earned his J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He received his B.A. from U.C. Santa Cruz, receiving his degree with highest honors. Prior to joining the firm, David served as a law clerk to the Honorable Raymond T. Chen on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Earlier in his career, David worked for nearly 10 years designing, programming and managing student information systems.
Travis Silva represents a wide range of local and national companies in high-stakes litigation. In the life sciences sector, Travis has represented established companies, such as Roche, as well as start-ups, such as Zosano Pharma and Concentric Analgesics, for which Travis helped obtain the complete dismissal of federal securities and related claims. He regularly represents professional sports leagues and teams, with current clients including both the Oakland A’s and the San Francisco Giants. Travis also has a robust public sector practice. He currently represents the People of the State of California as the plaintiff in a Section 17200 case against “ghost gun” manufacturers, and he is defending Alameda County and its Sheriff in intra-governmental litigation about security services and unfunded mandates. Travis has also litigated cases for venture capital firms and family offices and defended attorneys in legal malpractice actions.
Both Legal Services for Children and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights have presented Travis with awards for his pro bono service, which has included seeking habeas relief on behalf of an unlawfully detained immigrant teenager, challenging the Trump Administration’s family-separation policies, and advocating for clients seeking executive clemency for the purpose of obtaining immigration relief. Travis earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.A. and B.A., summa cum laude, from UC San Diego. Prior to joining the firm, Travis served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, prosecuted civil rights cases, and worked as a middle school teacher and college instructor.
Anjali Srinivasan has a wide-ranging commercial practice, from intellectual property cases to consumer class actions. Recently, she represented Twitter in a case involving rogue employees who improperly hacked users’ accounts while acting as covert operatives for the Saudi Arabian government; the case was dismissed with prejudice. Anjali represented pharmaceutical company Coherus Biosciences in a trade secret dispute with Amgen over its blockbuster biosimilar drug to Amgen's Neulasta. She has also defended several companies facing false claims act suits relating to medical and dental billing and has litigated several patent cases on the defense side as well as the plaintiff’s side. Anjali maintains an active pro bono practice that includes civil rights cases and wrongful conviction matters. She recently helped secure the release of a man who had been wrongly convicted based on faulty forensic science relating to “shaken baby syndrome,” and she represents an amicus group of 154 economists urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a federal appellate court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization holding that pre-viability abortions are constitutionally protected.
Anjali was a 2021 Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from New York University, earning her undergraduate degree with highest honors. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thelton E. Henderson of the Northern District Court of California and the Honorable Barrington D. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She formerly served as an assistant district attorney in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office where she investigated and prosecuted police misconduct cases, reviewed wrongful conviction matters, and prosecuted three jury trials.
About Keker, Van Nest & Peters
For more than 40 years, Keker, Van Nest & Peters has litigated complex, high-stakes civil and criminal cases throughout the nation. The firm takes the cases where companies, products, and careers are riding on the result. Our clients are high-profile individuals, as well as some of the world’s most successful companies, including Facebook, Genentech, Google, Instacart, Lyft, Major League Baseball, Netflix and Qualcomm. The firm’s areas of expertise include intellectual property, professional liability, class actions, general contract and commercial litigation, antitrust, white collar, and appellate.