Arun Prabhu

Practice Areas

Partner (Head – Technology and Telecom)

Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT);

General Corporate; Capital Markets.

Arun is a Partner and Head of Technology practice at CAM. He is based out of our Bangalore and Mumbai offices.

Arun advises international and domestic clients, on technology-related transactional and advisory matters across sectors ranging from banking, insurance, healthcare, internet and telecommunications to media and broadcasting. He regularly advices on large scale acquisitions of, or investments into, technology and data centric entities. Some of his key transactions in this regard include advising Advent International LP in its investment in Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited, and Warburg Pincus LLC on its acquisition of Shriram Housing Finance Limited. Apart from acquisitions, he has advised Amazon, Qure.ai Technologies Private Limited, and Aster DM Healthcare Limited with respect to strategic investments.

Arun works extensively with both Government of India, as well as industry associations, embassies, self-regulatory organizations and think tanks on stakeholder consultations relating to recent proposed legislations and amendments to telecommunications, intermediaries, data privacy, and online real money gaming laws. He is currently advising many large conglomerates, private equity funds as well as direct to consumer companies on compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Indian Telecommunications Act, 2023.

His key clients include Google, Amazon, Meta, Uber, Reliance Industries Limited, the Adani Group, Citibank, Singtel, the Aditya Birla Group, and Truecaller.

His strategic contracting and outsourcing clients include Lloyds Bank, Chevron Corporation, Jio Platforms Limited, Hero MotoCorp Limited and ESAF.

His key gaming and e-commerce clients include Mobile Premier League, PlayGames 24x7, Krafton, Sea Limited (Garena) and Dream11, Bundl Technologies Private Limited (Swiggy), API Holdings Private Limited (Pharmeasy), Waycool Foods, Gokwik, and Kiranakart (Zepto).

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Karnataka

Publications

• The RBI’s Digital Lending Recommendations: A Sign of the Road Ahead?- The RBI’s Digital Lending Recommendations: A Sign of the Road Ahead? | India Corporate Law (cyrilamarchandblogs.com) September 5, 2022

• A practical data framework for doing business in India- A practical data framework for doing business in India | Mint (livemint.com) November 24, 2022

• The Personal Data Protection Bill 2018: A Summary- Personal-Data-Protection-Bill-2018.pdf (cyrilshroff.com) July 30, 2018

• The Personal Data Protection Bill 2019: An Analysis- The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019: An Analysis | India Corporate Law (cyrilamarchandblogs.com) December 11, 2019

• India’s Telecommunication Bill: A case for balance and elegance- India’s Telecommunication Bill: A case for balance and elegance | Mint (livemint.com) October 4, 2022

• India: Comparing the Personal Data Protection Bill 2018 with the GDPR- India: Comparing the Personal Data Prot...Bill 2018 with the GDPR | DataGuidance (cyrilshroff.com) December, 2018

• Aadhar and private firms: State of play of section 57- Aadhar and private firms: State of play of section 57 -India | Law.asia December 21, 2018

• The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019: An update on developments- Untitled-1 (cyrilshroff.com) January 10, 2020

• The privacy of employees versus the safety of everyone- Opinion | The privacy of employees versus the safety of everyone | Mint (livemint.com) March 17, 2020

• Client-Alert: The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021- Client-Alert-Information-Technology.pdf (cyrilshroff.com) February 26, 2021

• The Report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Data Protection Bill, 2019: Curiouser and Curiouser- Client-Alert-DP-Bill-1912.pdf (cyrilshroff.com) December 19, 2021

• The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (Part I)- The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 - Part I | India Corporate Law (cyrilamarchandblogs.com) November 23, 2022

• The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (Part II)- The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 – Part II | India Corporate Law (cyrilamarchandblogs.com) November 24, 2022

• The Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022: A Work in Progress- The Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022: A Work in Progress | India Corporate Law (cyrilamarchandblogs.com) September 27, 2022

• FICCI CAM Entertainment Law Book, 2020- Untitled (cyrilshroff.com) April 2020

Education

Awards