Listed companies, promoters, financial institutions, and a wide array of entities in the fintech industry regularly seek the counsel of Trilegal’s multidisciplinary fintech and financial services regulatory team. Led by founding partner Rahul Matthan, a seasoned TMT expert with a focus on high-value transactions, the group attracts client praise for its ‘deep legal expertise and a genuine commitment to client success.’ On the regulatory front, Nikhil Narendran has extensive experience advising on payment and fintech regulations; Jyotsna Jayaram is another key name here, as is Shruti Rajan, who spearheads the firm’s financial services regulatory offering. Jaideep Reddy, whose practice focuses on fintech as well as crypto assets, is another individual to note.
Testimonials
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‘We value Jyotsna Jayaram's unique perspective and ability to understand client requirements. Bringing in practical nuances, deep understanding of the market and also industry practice.’
‘Jyotsna Jayaram and Sidharth Ray - both are stellar lawyers and we stick with Trilegal because of them.’
Key clients
- Unocoin Technologies Private Limited
- National Payments Corporation of India
Work highlights
- Advised clients, including the unicorns CoinDCX and Coinswitch, on structuring VDA exchanges and investments into VDA businesses.
- Assisted and advised NPCI in executing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for integrating with the speech-to-text AI modules (Bhashini) to enable conversational payments in several Indian languages across UPI and other NPCI payment products.