About Alpana Bhandari

ABOUT

Alpana is the CEO and founding partner of Prime Legal Consultants and Research Center Pvt. Ltd. She focuses her practice on all aspects of family law, including divorce, child custody, and property division.

She advises international clients on capital investment, foreign direct investment (FDI), joint ventures, corporate and individual legal counsel on business formation, business purchase and sale, contract review, share transfer, contract drafting, and company agreements, among other things. She also assists clients in registering their intellectual property and trademarks.

Alpana is committed to finding solutions that best meet the needs of its clients and is results-oriented. Over the course of her 12+ years of practice, Alpana has honed her skills as a strong and distinct problem solver for long-term resolution. Alpana previously worked in New York for Human Rights Watch.

She was a fellow at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) in New York City and worked at the Abo Akademi University Center for Human Rights in Turku, Finland. She received her law degree from the American University Washington College of Law (LL.M). She works as an attorney in Kathmandu.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAININGs

Worked as a -translator for 3 days for National Conference on Gender, Article 11 (COVID), and Global Disability Summit 2022 organized by KOSHISH in collaboration with the Asia Pacific and IDA,

 2018 Residential Stay- Researcher on Legal Capacity Institute for Human Rights Abo Akademi University Turku, Finland.

2018 Attended Advanced Course on Justifiability of Economics, Social and Cultural Right: Theory and Practice organized by Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi, University, Turku Finland.

February 2018 Attended Researcher Training organized by Human Rights Watch, New York.

September 2017 Attended introductory Course on international human rights organized by Norwegian Centre for Human Rights – OSLO, Norway.

September 2016 Short discourse and project sharing relating to rights of persons with disabilities, OSF (Open Society Foundation) Tbilisi, Georgia.

August 2016 Attended Global Minority Rights Summer School organized by the Tom Lantos Institute, the National University of Public Service, and the Middlesex University of London in Budapest, Hungary.

Feb 2016 Peace and Conflict Transformation training program organized by International Institute for Peace and Development Studies, Bangkok, Thailand.

Dec 2015 Women Peace Negotiators training program organized by IIPDS International Institute for Peace and Development Studies, Bangkok, Thailand.

Nov 2013 Refugee Legal Aid Training for Lawyers organized by UNHCR Nepal and PPR Nepal.

March 2013 Human Rights. Yes! training session organized by WCL Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington, D.C.