Biography
In addition to being a first chair litigator and trial lawyer, Pravin is intimately involved in counseling clients when it comes to managing litigation and reputational risk. He is called on by clients for bet-the-company litigations, and when companies are facing reputational harm to their brands and/or businesses.
Pravin has been intimately involved in and led the defense of numerous nationwide and multi-state putative class actions, and he is directly involved in all aspects of these and other cases, ranging from discovery and dispositive motions to settlement and case resolution. He has represented clients across various industries, including consumer products, pharmaceuticals, technology, sports and entertainment, media, investment banking, financial services, healthcare, insurance, oil and gas, and energy.
Pravin has been regularly recognized as a top attorney nationally and in Florida. Since 2023, he has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in Florida for General Commercial Litigation, with clients recognizing him as “both a truly strategic thinker and a creative, solution-minded practitioner,” and for being “savvy and nimble,” and known for providing “prompt advice in response to complex legal issues at any time of the day or night.” They also praise Pravin as “highly skilled,” and note his “in-depth technical knowledge,” “astute legal analysis,” “creativity to craft a resolution,” and his ability to “work through complex matters.” He also is regularly recognized as a recommended lawyer nationally for General Commercial Disputes and Product Liability by Legal 500, and since 2023 has been named a “Lawyer to Watch” in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America. He has twice earned a spot on Benchmark Litigation’s “40 & Under List” (2024-2025), which recognizes “top emerging talent” in U.S. litigation, and in 2024, he was recognized as one of only five national Class Action “Rising Stars” by Law360, and was also named a “Rising Star” by the South Asian Bar Association of North America – one of just six lawyers to earn the distinction. In 2024 and 2025, Pravin was named by Lawdragon 500 to its “X – The Next Generation” list.
Some of Pravin’s recent notable experience includes serving on Weil teams representing:
- Securing a major dismissal of 12 of 14 claims against MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani. This highly publicized multi-district putative class action alleges that certain celebrity endorsers and influencers deceptively promoted investments in the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.
- Instrumental in the subsequent retention by the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) to represent it as a defendant in a putative class action brought on behalf of a proposed international and nationwide class alleging losses arising from the failure of a cryptocurrency exchange.
- Delivering seven unprecedented wins in several motions relating to preliminary injunctions in two trade secrets cases against our client, biotech giant Suven Pharmaceuticals.
- Securing the dismissal of lululemon athletica in a greenwashing class action case filed in the Southern District of Florida, alleging that the retailer misled the public into thinking that the company’s business practices and products are environmentally sustainable.
- Representing a premier global bank in numerous discrimination cases involving claims of racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and age discrimination.
- 2019 NBA #1 draft pick Zion Williamson and Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in connection with two multi-hundred million dollar litigations arising out of a marketing agreement with his former agent.
- Representing a high-profile and trusted wealth management company in more than a dozen employment-related arbitrations across the country involving restrictive covenants, the protection of trade secrets, employment agreements, and highly sensitive financial information.
- Pilgrim’s Pride in federal class actions across the country brought by direct and indirect purchasers alleging that the major chicken producers reduced output to raise the price of broiler chickens.
- Representing PetroChina International in a nationwide class action pending in the Southern District of Florida, alleging that the company conspired to prevent the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) when it was most critically needed during the COVID 19 pandemic.
- Represented a global tech company as a respondent in a patent infringement investigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission, instituted at the request of the complainant relating to technology for converting baseband signals to RF signals, and vice versa. During the course of the investigation, complainant withdrew its allegations as to three of the four asserted patents, leading several years later to a stay.
- Securing dismissals for multiple media companies, including Paramount Global and Philo, in several consumer class actions filed in Florida federal court, alleging violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
- Defeating a motion for summary judgement in a significant high-profile lease-dispute litigation between Saks Fifth Avenue and its landlord in Bal Harbour, Florida, with trial scheduled for March, 2026.
- Delivered an early victory as part of a litigation team representing Steward Health Care by defeating a motion for a preliminary injunction filed by a counterparty alleging breach of a significant contract, as well defending allegations of a breach of contract, which resulted in the development of a Services Agreement, which provided benefit to the chapter 11 estate and was a key step in achieving Plan confirmation.
- Dometic, a major manufacturer of gas absorption refrigerators, in securing summary judgment and defeating class certification, as well as transfer and consolidation victories prior to those case dispositive rulings, in numerous putative nationwide consumer class actions in Florida and California federal courts alleging that the cooling units in several models of Dometic’s refrigerators purportedly contained a latent defect.
- Repsol, a global energy company, in complex environmental litigation concerning liabilities associated with the pollution and clean-up of the Passaic River in New Jersey, which involved, amongst a host of others, claims of “alter ego” and fraudulent conveyance. Pravin and the Weil team first secured a victory defeating all claims involving more than $1 billion in damages, and then won summary judgment upholding Repsol’s $65 million counterclaim. In a related bankruptcy litigation in Delaware, the team secured a significant summary judgment ruling on alter ego damages, allowing a very favorable settlement to follow soon after.
- Nortek, a global manufacturer of HVAC systems, in multiple putative class actions in Florida and Tennessee federal courts alleging that Nortek failed to disclose defects in its air conditioning equipment. Pravin and the Weil team obtained the denial of plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in the Florida case, as well as the dismissal of all claims, with prejudice, in the Tennessee case.
- Procter & Gamble in a high-profile class action in which more than 150 plaintiffs alleged that they were injured from using the popular denture cream, Fixodent. After winning three separate motions to exclude plaintiffs’ general causation experts, including an affirmation on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the lead case, all of the plaintiffs stipulated to a dismissal with prejudice.
- UnitedHealth Group in the successful defense of multi-billion dollar RICO and related conspiracy claims brought by a nationwide class of 700,000 doctors.
- Various creditors and debtors in significant chapter 11 bankruptcies and related litigation, including Claire’s Stores, Westinghouse Electric, and Lehman Brothers Holdings.
Pravin also is actively involved in the Firm’s pro bono initiatives and in the local community, and has achieved nationally recognized results in these engagements. Notable among these are: his representation of members of the Humane Society of the United States in a nationwide putative class action challenging the sales of puppies from “puppy mills”; and his representation of members of the Florida Immigrant Coalition and WeCount!, amongst others, in a putative class action challenging the constitutionality of Miami-Dade County’s practice of compliance with voluntary detainer requests by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to hold individuals for up to 48 hours after they are entitled to lawful release.
Pravin is the Associate Editor of Weil’s quarterly Class Action Monitor, Co-Chair of the Discovery Strategies subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Mass Torts Committee, and a member of the Florida Bar and the Dade County Bar Association. Pravin received his B.A. from the University of Miami, where he majored in political science and graduated summa cum laude in 2009. He was also tapped into Iron Arrow while at the University. Pravin received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2012, where he was an Edith Lowenstein Scholar and a Caplan Fellow.