Akash Karmakar

Practice Areas

Corporate & Regulatory Advisory

Telecom, Technology & Privacy

Career

Akash leads Panag & Babu’s corporate and regulatory advisory and telecom, technology & privacy practices. Through the course of his career, Akash has assisted several multinational companies including banks and financial institutions to navigate India’s data privacy regulations and for responding to data leaks or cybersecurity incidents. He works closely with credit rating agencies, life-sciences, and pharma giants, software service providers, intermediaries, messaging platforms, peer to peer lending platforms and online marketplaces to structure consent frameworks that are compliant with Indian law.

Akash also assists with transactional privacy-related challenges arising out acquisitions and business transfers, such as those relating to migration or acquisition of customer data, as well as analytical data based on underlying personal information. He has also advised clients on bespoke queries specific to challenges arising in the banking, airline, hospitality, and healthcare sectors.

Clients have said that Akash is “commercially driven, with an intuitive understanding of how regulation impacts complex tech-products in India. He adopts a risk-based approach advising on legal and regulatory issues at the intersection of law and technology”

Professional Memberships

International Bar Association, Member

Indo-German Chambers of Commerce, Member