Namita Viswanath

Practice Areas

Corporate & Commercial; Financial Services; Government & Regulator; Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Career

Namita is a Partner in the Technology Media and Telecom (TMT) practice group at INDUSLAW. Namita has been recently recommended by Who’s Who Legal Data 2024 and recognised as a ‘Information Communication Technology Lawyer of the year’ in Asia Pacific by Women in Business Law Awards 2023. ALB has recognized her as ’Asia Top 15 TMT Lawyers’ in 2023, ’Top TMT Lawyers in India’ in 2023 & 2022 and 'Top Female Lawyer’ in 2022. Also, ALB Women in Law Awards 2021 shortlisted Namita for Thought Leader of the Year, India and the Middle East. She has been consistently ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific and Legal 500 Asia Pacific for TMT and Data Protection, Asialaw as one of Rising Star for TMT.

Namita is well-regarded for her technology law expertise across all industry sectors. Namita has advised several domestic and international clients from start-ups to mature private and public companies and investors in various technology-driven and technology-consuming industries on issues ranging from setting up an e-commerce business and outsourcing to data governance and cyber security.

She focuses her practice on software, cloud-based services, artificial intelligence and machine learning, information technology, intellectual property, strategic acquisitions of business units/technology platforms and licensing, electronic and mobile commerce, health-tech, intermediary labilities, entertainment and digital business, and all forms of related legal and regulatory compliance and policy and advocacy initiatives. While Namita’s work primarily revolves around all facets of fintech related advice, she frequently advises and assists emerging and established companies on structuring their operations to house fin-tech activities, on new product offering and regulatory advisory services in the fin-tech space.

Namita has also worked on a wide range of commercial contracts, corporate transactions, corporate restructuring assignments and has advised on compliance under corporate and foreign exchange laws, with a special emphasis within the e-commerce, technology, banking and fin-tech sectors. Namita is at the forefront of data privacy issues in India and is one of the few Indian lawyers to advise on EU-GDPR and the CCPA. She regularly speaks on data privacy, fintech and emerging technology law issues and has authored many academic articles on the subject.

Prior to INDUSLAW, Namita has had the benefit of being associated with the IT and telecom industries right from the very beginning of her career which includes a stint as a senior in-house counsel in Lenovo, Oracle and Bharti Airtel Limited.

Professional Memberships

Karnataka State Bar Council