About

Papillon Mediation &
Negotiation LLP

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.
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WHAT IS MEDIATION?

Mediation is a process in which a neutral third person (mediator) creatively resolves the dispute between two or more parties.

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People Behind

Dr. Vinay Koparkar

MBBS | LLB | DFM | DBM | EXIM
Entrepreneur | Medical Professional | Professional Mediator & Negotiator
Dr. Vinay Koparkar brings together more than three decades of entrepreneurial leadership with specialised training in mediation and negotiation from some of the world’s most respected institutions. As the Founding Partner of Papillon Mediation & Negotiation LLP, he has completed advanced mediation and negotiation programmes at Harvard Law School (Program on Negotiation), the Indian Institute of Arbitration & Mediation (IIAM), the Centre for Advanced Mediation Practice (CAMP), the Indian School of Business (ISB), and other leading institutions.
Over the past eight years, Dr. Koparkar has successfully mediated a wide range of disputes at both the pre-litigation and litigation stages.
His experience spans business and commercial disputes, partnership and shareholder conflicts, family business matters, property disputes, contractual disagreements, employment issues, and other complex negotiations where preserving relationships while achieving commercially sound outcomes is critical.

An accomplished entrepreneur, Dr. Koparkar is also the visionary behind the Papillon Group. A pioneer in introducing scientific, medically driven approaches to the hair and beauty industry and among the first to establish dedicated men’s grooming salons in India, he has spent decades building and scaling successful businesses. This real-world business experience enables him to understand not only the legal dimensions of disputes but also the commercial realities, emotional dynamics, and strategic considerations that influence successful settlements.

Known for his calm, impartial approach and innovative problem-solving ability, Dr. Koparkar combines world-class mediation training with practical business insight to help parties move beyond entrenched positions and discover solutions that traditional dispute resolution often cannot achieve. His ability to think beyond conventional legal frameworks, while maintaining complete neutrality, has established him as one of India’s emerging and respected professional mediators.

Mr. Aniket Koparkar

B.Com | M.B.A – Indian School of Business

Entrepreneur | Ex-International Sportsman | Ex Investment Banker | Professional Mediator

Aniket Koparkar brings together the discipline of an elite sportsperson, the analytical rigour of a finance professional, and the practical wisdom of an entrepreneur to his role as Founding Partner at Papillon Mediation & Negotiation LLP.

Before entering the world of business, Aniket represented India in Table Tennis for over 13 years, competing internationally and interacting with people from diverse cultures. His sporting career instilled the resilience, composure, patience, and emotional discipline that are fundamental to effective mediation. Committed to becoming a world-class mediator, he has received professional training in mediation and negotiation from leading institutions in India and further advanced his expertise by completing the Mediation Intensive programme at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation – widely regarded as one of the world’s premier training programmes for professional mediators.
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Aniket completed his MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, one of the world’s leading business schools, before working with the Investment Banking Division of Deutsche Bank in Mumbai and Frankfurt, where he gained valuable experience in finance, valuation, and complex commercial transactions. As the Co-Founder and CEO of Papillon Hair World, he has spent over a decade building and growing successful businesses.
Over the past eight years, Aniket has worked closely alongside Dr. Vinay Koparkar as a Co-Mediator and Case Manager, helping facilitate the resolution of disputes across business, commercial, partnership, shareholder, family, property, and contractual matters.
Believing that mediation is the perfect blend of problem solving, strategic thinking, and helping people resolve conflict, Aniket combines world-class training with real-world business and financial expertise to help parties achieve practical, commercially sound, and lasting resolutions.
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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.
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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.