About Papillon Mediation

About Papillon Mediation & Negotiation

Dr. Koparkar, a successful medical professional and entrepreneur businessman after completing 30 years of experience thought of utilizing his knowledge, intelligence and experience for the society to resolve their disputes without going into the court of law and to do better business with long standing relationships with the partners by better negotiations.

Papillon Mediation & Negotiation LLP is set up to resolve wide range of disputes ranging from personal / family disputes, doctor – patient disputes to business / commercial disputes. 

We help disputing partings collaborate and to find mutually acceptable Win-Win solutions through the process of professional mediation which is confidential, quick and cost effective. We help people to use their ability and capacity to resolve their own disputes by giving them the right advice, right atmosphere and flexible procedure.  Papillon also helps businessmen and corporate executives in every aspect of negotiations ranging from procurement negotiations, sales negotiations to joint venture negotiations.

Partners

Dr. Vinay Koparkar
MBBS | LLB | DFM | DBM | EXIM
Entrepreneur | Medical Professional | Professional Mediator & Negotiator

A highly diversified professional and educational background coupled with 30+ years of business experience, makes Dr. Koparkar uniquely qualified to become a professional mediator & negotiator. Before becoming the founding Partner at Papillon Mediation & Negotiation LLP, Dr. Koparkar got certified in professional mediation & negotiation from some of the top most institutes viz. Indian Institute of Arbitration & Mediation, Centre for Advanced Mediation Practice, The Indian School of Business etc.

A proud pioneer of the concepts of bringing medical knowledge to the hair and beauty business and setting up a men’s parlour in India, Dr. Vinay Koparkar is the scientific expertise and technical experience behind the Papillon Beauty Salon brand since 1988. He himself has been trained from international institutes such as Morris Master Class (London) and Toni & Guy (Singapore), Clara International, Hong Kong and CIDESCO, Zurich. And so in 1988, he set up India’s first men’s parlour, the Papillon Men’s Beauty Salon.

Apart from the men’s beauty parlour, Dr. Koparkar also brought many innovative concepts to the field of hair and skin and the Papillon brand grew by leaps and bounds. He started the Papillon Institute of Cosmetology in 1994 to provide scientific training to those who want to enter the field of beauty. He also established the Papillon Hair and Face Clinic in 1996 which was the first-of-its-kind clinic exclusively for hair and face problems. He is also behind other innovative concepts of Papillon – the Papillon Hair and Makeup Studio (2005), Papillon Hair World (2011) and Papillon ChemoCare (2017).

Along with his successful entrepreneurship experience, Dr Vinay Koparkar has also been practicing medicine for 30 years. Throughout his career as a medical practitioner and as a businessman he has been involved in plenty of successful business negotiations and dispute resolutions of varied nature.

Aniket Koparkar
B.Com | M.B.A – Indian School of Business
Entrepreneur | Ex-International Sportsman | Ex Investment Banker | Professional Mediator

Aniket Koparkar’s career trajectory has taken many paths, all of which have led to becoming the Co-Founder and CEO of Papillon Hair World and the founding Partner at Papillon Mediation & Negotiation LLP. His career began as a sportsperson playing professionally for almost 13 years for the Indian national table tennis team. Having given all he could to the sport, Aniket quit at the young age of 23 years to set up Papillon Hair World.

To make a success of it, Aniket decided to build his business expertise and did his MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad- one of the premier business schools in the world. After his MBA, Aniket worked with the Investment Banking Team of Deutsche Bank in Mumbai and then for a year in Frankfurt, Germany to get some work experience before starting his own venture.

Aniket’s role at Papillon Mediation & Neotiation LLP mostly revolves around planning and executing the pre-mediation process as the lead case manager. He leads the firm’s efforts and activities to increase awareness and knowledge about Mediation. He is also solely responsible for designing and conducting the seminars and workshops on various topics of Negotiation for mid-level and senior corporate executives.

Subject matter experts

Mr. Anil Paranjape
Venture Capitalist | Angel Investor | Entrepreneur
Mr. Anil Paranjape is a Venture Partner with Infuse Ventures, India’s largest cleantech-focused early stage VC fund.  He also leads Aagami Lighting Technologies which specializes in highly customization outdoor LED lighting products using Aagami’s unique technology patented across the world.  At Papillon Mediation & Negotiation, Anil mainly gets involved as a subject matter expert in cases involving cross border / cross cultural disputes, shareholder / joint venture disputes, technology / IP disputes etc. As a TiE charter member, Anil helps various startups in the field of semiconductors, electronics, health, cleantech, retail, and hospitality.
Prior to moving back to Pune in 2009, Anil worked with Intel Corporation in Portland, Oregon for 18 years.  His work involved designing and later managing Design Automation aspects of the very first incarnations of Intel’s flagship microprocessors, winning multiple awards including Intel Achievement Award, Intel’s highest award for technical design excellence.  During the last three years of his Intel tenure, he worked for Intel Capital in building new businesses for Intel in cleantech and retail technology domains.
Anil holds a BE in Electronics and Telecomm from the University of Pune, an MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Wharton.  In his copious spare time, he likes to read, travel, enjoy wines and microbrews, motorcycle (before wine and beer), write poetry and prose (after wine and beer), and play with his only daughter who’s a teenager now and doesn’t want to play with him anymore.
Mr. Sanjay Pandit
M.Com | FCA (Chartered Accountant)

Mr. Sanjay Pandit is a seasoned veteran when it comes to anything related to accounting and taxation. He has been a practicing Chartered Accountant for more than last 30 years and specializes in areas Statutory Audits of public ltd companies, TAX and MVAT audits, Business and Strategic consulting mainly in Tax related matters etc. He is a APPELLATE CONSULTANT in Direct & Indirect Tax matters and is also CERTIFIED ARBITRATOR ON PANEL ICAI (SINCE 2012).

Mr. Pandit is a perfect scholarly resource for us in any of our mediation / negotiation cases involving business / commercial disputes, valuation disputse, shareholder / partnership disputes etc and we take his guidance as and when required on a case to case basis.

Mr. Satish Athavale
Ex Managing Director – Shogini Techoarts Pvt Ltd
Mr. Satish has over 30 years experience serving as the Marketing Director and 10 years as the Managing Director of SHOGINI TECHNOARTS PVT. LTD., Pune, a Company having Turnover of ~Rs. 150 Crores with a wide customer base of more than 1000 customers from Small & medium to large corporates.

His enormous experience of participating in Top level Management meetings, his ability of being a strong negotiator with good convincing power, his Techno commercial knowledge and his rich experience in resolving Industrial disputes amicably, makes him a perfect GO-TO guy in a variety of our mediation cases.