Profilo
Bina B. Palnitkar serves as Co-Chair of the Texas Litigation Practice at Greenberg Traurig. However, she is a nationally recognized business attorney, representing family offices, private equity firms, and institutional investors across a range of strategic matters—including M&A, real estate, fund formation, aviation, employment issues, all in addition to her ranked practice in high-stakes commercial litigation and cross-border intellectual property enforcement. Her clients often include private equity sponsors, real estate investment groups, consumer brands, aviation and health care companies, and technology innovators. Prior to her legal career, Bina was one of the few women traders in the pits of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, where she developed a sharp command of risk and financial literacy.
Bina is a member of the firm’s prestigious Anti-Counterfeiting group, rectifying brand protection issues for corporations by utilizing judiciary approaches including injunctions and seizures with domestic and international law enforcement and customs authorities. Bina also serves as national settlement counsel for two of the world’s largest medical device companies, working with large teams of litigators both inside and outside the firm to manage nationwide settlements. She has devised novel settlement strategies to achieve the business objectives of leading global companies.
A civic and industry leader, Bina chairs Greenberg Traurig’s Asian American Affinity Group and has served in leadership roles with the North American South Asian Bar Association, YPO, and the Methodist Moody Brain and Spine Institute. She brings a results-oriented approach to every engagement—trusted by investors and operators alike to deliver when the stakes are highest.
Concentrations
- Intellectual property litigation
- Products liability litigation
- Complex commercial litigation
- Anti-counterfeiting efforts
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Representation of prominent Texas family offices in all aspects of legal matters, including mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, real estate, insurance matters, sports franchises, pharma and hospitality.
- Representation of one of a three member trial team securing $9.4M in a complex business dispute in federal court on claims of trademark and copyright infringement for American Airlines.
- Representing Underwriters Laboratories in connection with an anti-counterfeiting litigation involving vaporizers and other smoke shop products bearing counterfeit UL certification marks.
- Representation as first chair of trial team securing $6.8 million unanimous jury verdict in a complex business dispute in Dallas county on claims of breach of contract, alter ego, and tortious interference.
- Representation of national and global corporations in all forms of complex commercial litigation including, theft of trade secrets and confidential information, breach of contract, covenants not to compete, non-disclosure agreements and solicitation of employees, tortious interference with contract and other business torts.
- Representation of employers and businesses in trade secret and covenant not to compete cases.
- Representation of leading medical device manufacturer in personal injury litigation involving device defect claims.
- Representation of a major national bank against construction company involving defaulted leases on construction equipment.
- Representation of medical equipment rental company in antitrust action in East Texas. Claims involve monopolization, restraint of trade and common law conspiracy.
- Representation of largest provider of multi-service business process outsourcing in litigation matters such as alleged unjust enrichment to ERISA claims.
- Representation of firearms company involved with trademark infringement litigation in the Northern District of Illinois and the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board.°
- Negotiated and structured information technology license agreements on behalf of hospitals, corporations and media groups.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Palnitkar prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Team Member, BTI’s Most Recommended Law Firms, Big Pharma, 2025
- Team Member, a Law360 “Product Liability Practice Group of the Year,” 2021
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America
- Litigation - Intellectual Property, 2022-2025
- Commercial Litigation, 2023-2025
- Listed, World Trademark Review, "WTR 1000," 2025
- Selected, Bloomberg Law, "They've Got Next: The 40 Under 40," 2021
- Named, D Magazine, "Best Lawyers Under 40," 2019-2020
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Texas Super Lawyers, 2022 and 2023
- "Rising Stars," 2012-2021
- Selected, Law360, "Trials Rising Star," 2018
- Listed, Texas Lawyer Professional Excellence Awards, "On the Rise," 2018
- Team Member, The American Lawyer’s “Products Liability Litigation Department of the Year,” 2018
- Member, Personal Care Products Council (PCPC)
- Board Member, Lakeside Bank
- Board Member, Foundation for the Callier Center and Communication Disorders
- Board Member, Katy Trail
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Illinois State Bar
- Member, Junior League of Dallas
- Member, Cattle Baron’s Ball Dallas
- Past President, North American South Asian Bar Association - Dallas Chapter
- Judicial Intern Chair, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Volunteer, Methodist Brain and Spine Institute
- Associate Member, Patrick E. Higginbotham Inn of Court (2011-2012)
- Member, Junior Associates Circle of the Dallas Museum of Art
Formazione
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Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, with high honors, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Order of the Coif
- B.B.A., Finance, The University of Texas at Austin
- Texas
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- American Sign Language
- Marathi
- Spagnolo