Namita Viswanath

Practice Areas

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

Career

Namita is a Senior Partner in the Technology Media and Telecom (TMT) practice group at INDUSLAW.

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 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 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.

Rankings & Recognitions

• Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific Guide consistently ranked Namita for TMT.

• Chambers & Partners Fin-tech Guide 2025 recognised Namita for Fin-tech legal

• Legal500 Asia-Pacific Guide 2024 recognised Namita as Leading lawyer for TMT and consistently recommended Namita for TMT and Data Protection.

• Asialaw rankings 2024-25 recognised Namita as a Distinguished Practitioner for TMT.

• IFLR1000 2024-25 recognised Namita as Highly Regarded lawyer for Financial services regulatory.

• Who’s Who Legal recommended Namita in Data Guide 2024

• Women in Business Law Awards 2023 recognised Namita as 'Information Communication Technology Lawyer of the Year' in Asia Pacific.

• Asian Legal Business recognised Namita as one of the 'Asia Top 15 TMT Lawyers in 2023,' 'Top TMT Lawyer in India' in 2023 and 2022, and 'Top Female Lawyer' in 2022.

• ALB Women in Law Awards 2021 shortlisted Namita for 'Thought Leader of the Year, India and the Middle East.'

Professional Memberships

Karnataka State Bar Council