Hahaha. Someone is asking for genuine guidance. Please don't mislead! Someday you might ask for help and someone will give you sarcastic replies which you may not understand and follow. Karma bites back
This is a list basis work, reputation and clientele, not culture. TMT is a vast area, so in my opinion good to bear in mind the kind of TMT work you would like to do - Media - Gowree Gokhale at NDA, Ranjana Adhikari at Indus, Ameet Naik at Naik & Naik, Chandrima at DSK Legal, Saikrishna Rajgopal Telecom - Stephen Mathais at Kocchar; Nikhil Narendran at Trilegal, Abhishek Malhotra @ TMT Law Data - Nehaa Chaudhari at Ikigai, Rahul Mathan at Trilegal, Mathew Chacko at SRL, Arun Prabhu at CAM Fintech - Anu Tiwari at CAM, Aparajita Srivastava at Ikigai Law; Mathew Chacko at Spice Route, Nikhil Narendran Gaming - Ranjana Adhikari at Indus, Gowree Gokhale at NDA Satcom and Space - Abhishek Malhotra @ TMT Law, Anirudh Rastogi at Ikigai, Ashok GV at Factum Law Policy - Rahul Mathan at Trilegal, Nehaa Chaudhari at Ikigai New tech - Anirudh Rastogi at Ikigai Law, Huzefa Tavawala at NDA Blockchain - Anirudh Rastogi at Ikigai Law, Jaideep Reddy at NDA VC - Archana Rajaram at Rajaram Legal, Roma Priya at Burgeon, Srinivas Katta at Indus Law, Manvindar Singh at JSA
One addition (and because for some reason in this area they like to be low-key)
SAM Policy & Data Team: interned with them for a couple of months. They do everything around TMT with a special focus on everything Data, Intermediary Liability, Gaming & emerging tech. Also policy around NFTs and crypto. Goes without mentioning that in each of these areas they represent the biggest of clients.
Also probably one of the nicest teams you'll find in law firms as far as the culture is concerned
Great list. Will highlight a few names from the list: Gowree G for media, Anirudh rastogi for all things emerging tech, Mathew Chacko for fintech, Archana Rajram and Roma for VC - Archana for investors and Roma for company representaion, Nikhil (Tri) for telecom
Jaideep Reddy - NDA
Jyotsna Jayaram - Trilegal
Media - Gowree Gokhale at NDA, Ranjana Adhikari at Indus, Ameet Naik at Naik & Naik, Chandrima at DSK Legal, Saikrishna Rajgopal
Telecom - Stephen Mathais at Kocchar; Nikhil Narendran at Trilegal, Abhishek Malhotra @ TMT Law
Data - Nehaa Chaudhari at Ikigai, Rahul Mathan at Trilegal, Mathew Chacko at SRL, Arun Prabhu at CAM
Fintech - Anu Tiwari at CAM, Aparajita Srivastava at Ikigai Law; Mathew Chacko at Spice Route, Nikhil Narendran
Gaming - Ranjana Adhikari at Indus, Gowree Gokhale at NDA
Satcom and Space - Abhishek Malhotra @ TMT Law, Anirudh Rastogi at Ikigai, Ashok GV at Factum Law
Policy - Rahul Mathan at Trilegal, Nehaa Chaudhari at Ikigai
New tech - Anirudh Rastogi at Ikigai Law, Huzefa Tavawala at NDA
Blockchain - Anirudh Rastogi at Ikigai Law, Jaideep Reddy at NDA
VC - Archana Rajaram at Rajaram Legal, Roma Priya at Burgeon, Srinivas Katta at Indus Law, Manvindar Singh at JSA
Media - Having worked with Ranjana Adhikari, can confirm that she currently doesn't do any media work at all. In her new role, it's only gaming.
Data - Supratim @ Kco.
Fintech - Jaideep reddy @ Tri.
Policy - Shahana Goswami @ SAM
Data - Sreenidhi Srinivasan @ Ikigai
Telecom (infra / regulatory / licensing) - Harsh Walia @ KCo
IT Disputes - Tejas Karia (SAM Delhi tech disputes team); Anushka Sharda @ KCo
SAM Policy & Data Team: interned with them for a couple of months. They do everything around TMT with a special focus on everything Data, Intermediary Liability, Gaming & emerging tech. Also policy around NFTs and crypto. Goes without mentioning that in each of these areas they represent the biggest of clients.
Also probably one of the nicest teams you'll find in law firms as far as the culture is concerned
Fintech- Agree with Jaideep @Tri