Data Privacy and Information Technology
Expertise in Data Privacy and Information Technology Legal Solutions
Over the past two decades, technology has emerged as the driving force behind India’s economy. Following the dot-com era, tech start-ups assumed a crucial role in attracting foreign investment and generating employment opportunities in the country. Indian legal professionals with a deep understanding of technology and tech-driven transactions have been instrumental in supporting the growth and advancement of Indian technology multinational corporations (MNCs). Our firm boasts a robust and comprehensive practice in technology and data privacy, covering transactional, corporate, and regulatory advisory aspects, as well as handling technology-related disputes and litigation.
We cater to clients worldwide, providing expertise on Indian legal issues concerning technology and data privacy. We advise some financial institutions, investors, as well as tech companies, and other corporations on technology regulations (including the recent intermediary rules) and data privacy laws (including legal issues arising out of the migration of data across borders). With the added benefit of relevant domain expertise, our services also include identifying legal, regulatory, and contractual risks in investment transactions and in M&A in the technology sector. We also advise (both vendors and customers) entering into outsourcing, technology transfer, and licensing transactions by assisting in negotiating industry-standard agreements and implementing best practices and contractual safeguards.
We are also experienced in advising social media companies on legal compliances applicable to them, including intermediaries’ obligations, laws regulating online content, e-commerce regulations, data privacy, and cybersecurity laws.
Further, the Firm provides end-to-end litigation support, including pre-litigation strategy, on complex disputes involving intermediary liability, information technology, and data privacy-related issues. We have extensive experience in representing leading social media companies in a wide variety of cases before the Supreme Court, different High Courts and lower courts across the country. Notable categories of cases include civil and criminal defamation cases; IP infringement cases; public interest litigation cases seeking regulation of social media and OTT platforms, and regulation of harmful categories of online content such as hate speech, fake news, pornography, etc.