About The Firm 

Nathani Law Practice, PLLC is a small, woman-owned law firm in Washington, D.C.  The firm is led by Nina Nathani, who previously practiced in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and in private practice at large and small firms in Washington, D.C. The firm serves as formal or de facto general counsel to well-known international NGOs and domestic non-profit organizations, and provides legal services to numerous other organizations and businesses.  Clients range across the fields of global health and reproductive products and services, social marketing, democracy and governance, media, civil society, private enterprise, education, gender, agriculture, environmental preservation, capacity-building, executive volunteers, corporate social responsibility, social activism and public policy.

Nathani Law Practice provides full service representation on the formation, operation and governance of U.S. nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations and their overseas affiliates, federal and state legal compliance, donor requirements, government grants and contracts, commercial agreements, intellectual property, charitable fundraising, and fraud prevention. We counsel clients in the following areas:

  • Establishment, operation and governance of non-profit organizations in the U.S. and overseas, including counsel to boards of directors and top executive management on legal, policy and compliance issues.

  • Commercial agreements, including consulting, supply, distribution, IP licensing, leases, Master Services Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, IT outsourcing, advertising, and litigation settlement.

  • Donor agreements, including U.S. and foreign government donors, international organizations (e.g., WHO, Global Fund, United Nations, UNITAID, World Bank), and private and corporate philanthropy.

  • Intellectual property development, protection, ownership, and licensing.

  • Development of ethics and compliance programs, internal investigation, mandatory fraud and other reporting to donors and OIGs, and responding to US Government agency information requests.

  • Teaming Agreements and other partnership arrangements among applicants for funding awards.

  • Compliance with federal and state laws including: grant and contract rules; IP and rights in data; ethics and fraud reporting; international transactions; exempt organizations; charitable solicitation; and lobbying.

  • Establishment of local affiliates, structuring legal relationships, and managing overseas operations.

  • Fundraising and gift acceptance policies and procedures.

  • Document retention and records management, and data protection and privacy policies.

  • Commercial arbitration, administrative proceedings pertaining to U.S.-registered trademarks, and U.S. GAO bid protest actions.