USD School of Law Alumnus Pramode Chiruvolu '13 (JD) Named a 2022 Rising Star in Technology by Law360

Pramode Chiruvolu '13 (JD) Named a 2022 Rising Star in Technology by Law360

SAN DIEGO (June 27, 2022) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumnus, Pramode Chiruvolu ’13 (JD), was recently named a 2022 Rising Star in Technology by Law360. The recognition comes on the heels of Chiruvolu and his team representing Activision in its $75 billion acquisition by Microsoft.

Chiruvolu is an intellectual property and technology counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where he represents clients in transactional matters. Chiruvolu began his career with Skadden in 2013 as a general litigator. However, he chose to pivot to transactional work in order to work more closely with clients on their tech-related initiatives and help them achieve their business-related goals.

Chiruvolu’s representative transactional matters include, among many others, Elon Musk in his pending $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc., BuzzFeed Inc. in its acquisition of HuffPost, and the Intel Corporation in various acquisitions and joint ventures.

You can read more about Chiruvolu’s recognition as a 2022 Rising Star in Technology here.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world.  The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law, and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates.  The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 28th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.