Member Profiles

Mr. Krasner, a founding partner of Blanchard, Krasner & French, has over 35 years of experience as a certified public accountant and attorney in a wide variety of matters and industries. His areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, real estate, tax matters, family law, purchases and sales, litigation, licensing, franchising, corporate and partnership structuring and reorganizations, international trade, tax and estate planning. Mr. Krasner is a frequent speaker on numerous topics for a variety of groups and organizations.

Navneet S. Chugh is the Managing Partner and founder of Chugh, LLP. Mr. Chugh has extensive experience in a wide variety of Corporate, Tax, Immigration, Litigation and Mergers & Acquisition matters. He is an attorney (1992) and a Certified Public Accountant (1990). He was the first president of the North American South Asian Bar Association (2003), a co-founder of The Indus Entrepreneurs Southern California (1997), Founder President of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California (1995), the Indian Professionals Toastmasters Club (1986), the International Indian Bar Association and Chairman of the Board of Premier Media, Inc., a publishing company based in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Chugh is also on the board of Asia Society of Southern California, Habib American Bank, Ignify – an IT Consulting Firm, Pratham Southern California, and American India Foundation (AIF).

Education and Licensing J.D. Rutgers Law School, Newark, New Jersey A.B., Political Science, Rutgers University Graduated with honors in Major Admitted to New Jersey Bar and Florida Bar Certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Certification Committee of the Florida Bar Member of the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association and the Clearwater Bar Association Member of the Board, Intercultural Advocacy Institute, Clearwater, Florida Licensed as a Florida Real Estate Broker Employment History Attorney at Law. Current professional activities include the processing of business and investor visa applications and serving as a consultant to foreign persons/prospective entrepreneurs. Mr. Carrion is a frequent speaker to U.S. professionals, including commercial real estate and business brokers, accountants and attorneys, who represent or otherwise serve prospective foreign entrepreneurs. He has authored numerous articles on the subject of foreign investment to the United States for commercial and trade publications. He has handled numerous deportation hearings, including several Section “212©” and Cancellation of Removal applications He served as organizing Chairman of the Central Florida Chapter of the AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION and was responsible for the 7th and 8th Annual Advanced Topics Seminar which were held at St. Pete Beach in October of 1993 and again in October, 1994. General Counsel, MISENER MARINE CONSTRUCTION, INC. Tampa, Florida Supervised all legal matters for parent and related companies. Acted as counsel to the corporation on all legal affairs, to include the following: Domestic and foreign contract preparation Government contract pre-bid analysis Land development and new business ventures All litigation initiation and response Mr. Carrion was responsible for all legal compliance issues as regards foreign operations, with a focus on business dealings in the Caribbean and South and Central America.

Mark chairs the firm’s Outsourcing and Technology Practice Group and Co-chairs its India practice, where he leads a broad-based, supplier-focused team of experienced professionals representing a diverse group of global providers of technology and services related to outsourcing, software, robotics, and the cloud. Mark has deep experience and expertise in all aspects of sourcing and procurement, from initial RFP through implementation, go-live, and beyond. Global service providers rely on Mark to help them structure, negotiate and document domestic, near-shore, and off-shore outsourcing strategies in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Mark is a distinguished information technology lawyer and regularly leads significant negotiations on behalf of the firm’s clients and, based on real-world market knowledge and experience, advises them on developing competitive contracting processes and positions. He has worked on hundreds of sole-sourced and competitively bid transactions, including BPO, ITO, data analytics, digital transformation, robotics, automation, cloud migration, SAAS, software development, licensing, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and cross-border technology transfers. Mark is widely acknowledged as one of the leading experts for supplier-side representation in global outsourcing and technology transactions and is regularly ranked among the best in the industry by clients, peers, and organizations such as Chambers, The Legal 500, and Best Lawyers in America. He frequently lectures on outsourcing, licensing, and privacy issues and has served as an adjunct, law-school professor teaching courses on intellectual property, computer law, and the law of cyberspace. Mark earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, his M.A. in International Relations from Yale University, and a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa in Philosophy and International Relations from the College of William and Mary. Education University of Virginia School of Law  (J.D., 1996) Yale University  (M.A., 1993) College of William & Mary  (B.A., 1990) Phi Beta Kappa Bar Admissions Connecticut Memberships and Affiliations American Bar Association International Law and Practice Section Intellectual Property Law Section Science and Technology Section Connecticut Bar Association International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Best Lawyers (2008-2022) Chambers USA (2017-2021) Chambers Global (2018-2021) The Legal 500 (2018-2021)

John is a partner at Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP and serves as Leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. He focuses his practice on prosecution and licensing of patent applications in a wide variety of mechanical, software, and electrical fields. He has helped clients protect inventions pertaining to various types of engines (including jet, rocket and diesel), nanotechnology, medical devices, sensors, manufacturing, software applications, signal processing and dynamics, vehicles, food packaging, fluid manipulation, and non-lethal weapons. John has been named an IP Star by Managing IP.