Here is an informative list of TMT law firms from an earlier thread on Legallyindia:
1. Trilegal: Rahul Mathan at the helm ensures a lot of government work but he is less active on client work than before. ‘Statesman’ status. Generally a very well regarded and busy team. Nikhil Narendran, Jyotsna are good partners to work with. Nikhil is particularly focussed on telecom. Jaideep Reddy for fintech/crypto. Team is nice to work in.
2. CAM: Arun Prabhu is good. But the practice is not the same tier as Trilegal.
3. Ikigai: Cutting-edge work in a lot of new areas like AI, metaverse, blockchain. Works with almost all big-tech companies, especially in social media, ecom, cloud, satcom, fintech. Strong data practice too. Anirudh Rastogi is the managing partner, known for emerging tech/blockhain, Nehaa Chaudhari for policy/data, Aparajita Srivastava for fintech. Sreenidhi Srinivasan for data.
4. NDA: old tech and media practice with good clients but several good lawyers have left or are leaving the firm. Better work-life than at other big practices. Works in a lot of new areas of tech like crypto, drones etc. Gowree Gokhale is good for media and gaming. Huzefa for new areas. NDA puts a lot of writing on areas of tech.
5: Indus: It is a gaming and entertainment practice led by Ranjana Adhikari from NDA. Well known partner but in the gaming circles.
6. Spice Route: Key areas are fintech and data. Mathew Chacko heads up both practices in the Bangalore office. Mumbai office doesn’t do as much tech. Do a lot of vc investment work in tech startups too, headed also by Mathew. Senior Associate Aadya Mishra also known for data work.
7. Saraf: Building it out. Too early in the game to comment.
8. SAM: low key but good TMT team with big clients. Sahana Chatterjee does a lot of TMT policy work. Tejas Karia’s team does TMT litigation for large clients, but can be quite routine for the most part.
9. TMT Law Practice: Abhishek Malohotra has an established telecom litigation practice. His team also does gaming and data.
10. Anand & Anand: been building a tmt practice, but still best for IP aspects of TMT.
Can someone guide me, what to do further. What are the career prospects? What are the prominent firms dealing with this work.
And how should I go ahead with it.
Thankyou
1. Trilegal: Rahul Mathan at the helm ensures a lot of government work but he is less active on client work than before. ‘Statesman’ status. Generally a very well regarded and busy team. Nikhil Narendran, Jyotsna are good partners to work with. Nikhil is particularly focussed on telecom. Jaideep Reddy for fintech/crypto. Team is nice to work in.
2. CAM: Arun Prabhu is good. But the practice is not the same tier as Trilegal.
3. Ikigai: Cutting-edge work in a lot of new areas like AI, metaverse, blockchain. Works with almost all big-tech companies, especially in social media, ecom, cloud, satcom, fintech. Strong data practice too. Anirudh Rastogi is the managing partner, known for emerging tech/blockhain, Nehaa Chaudhari for policy/data, Aparajita Srivastava for fintech. Sreenidhi Srinivasan for data.
4. NDA: old tech and media practice with good clients but several good lawyers have left or are leaving the firm. Better work-life than at other big practices. Works in a lot of new areas of tech like crypto, drones etc. Gowree Gokhale is good for media and gaming. Huzefa for new areas. NDA puts a lot of writing on areas of tech.
5: Indus: It is a gaming and entertainment practice led by Ranjana Adhikari from NDA. Well known partner but in the gaming circles.
6. Spice Route: Key areas are fintech and data. Mathew Chacko heads up both practices in the Bangalore office. Mumbai office doesn’t do as much tech. Do a lot of vc investment work in tech startups too, headed also by Mathew. Senior Associate Aadya Mishra also known for data work.
7. Saraf: Building it out. Too early in the game to comment.
8. SAM: low key but good TMT team with big clients. Sahana Chatterjee does a lot of TMT policy work. Tejas Karia’s team does TMT litigation for large clients, but can be quite routine for the most part.
9. TMT Law Practice: Abhishek Malohotra has an established telecom litigation practice. His team also does gaming and data.
10. Anand & Anand: been building a tmt practice, but still best for IP aspects of TMT.