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Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
The New Delhi-based practice at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co has a strong track record of handling complex litigation, particularly surrounding media and IP-related disputes. The team’s expertise is wide in scope, ranging from privacy and data breaches to regulatory compliance and contractual disagreements. Tejas Karia has great experience of advising clients on data security and e-commerce issues, and Swati Agarwal covers all aspects of information technology laws and regulation having joined the firm from Amazon in May 2022. Varun Pathak specialises in handling commercial litigation and arbitration, whilst principal associate Shashank Mishra and associate Akshi Rastogi are also noted.
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‘Good knowledge of data privacy laws and investigation practice.’
Key clients
- Inshorts India Advertising and Services Private Limited
- GoDaddy.com LLC
- WhatsApp LLC and Meta Platforms Inc.
- Meta Platforms, Inc. and WhatsApp LLC
- Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
- Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited (part of Sony group) and Bangla Entertainment Private Limited.
- BYJU’S - Think and Learn Private Limited
- Confederation of Indian Industry
- PVR Limited
- AION Investments Private IV Limited and IGT Group
- Fractal Analytics Private Limited
- Inshorts Medialabs Private Limited
- MX Media & Entertainment Pte. Ltd (“MX Singapore”), MX Media Co Ltd. (“MX BVI”), MXP Media India Limited (“MX India”) (collectively the “MX Entities”) and Times Internet Limited (“TIL”).
- State Bank of India
- IndiaIdeas.com Limited
Work highlights
- Acted as the litigation and pre-litigation advisory for GoDaddy, a domain registrar in relation to a Trademark infringement suits before the Delhi High Court alleging that Plaintiff’s trademark rights have been violated by domain name registrars facilitating fraudulent and infringing business activities and offering for sale domain names that are identical/similar to Plaintiff’s trademarks.
- Represented Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp LLC in a filed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court itself (through its registrar) against various law enforcement agencies and intermediaries to address the issue of rising instances of abusive abusive comments/tweets/videos posted about the Judiciary.
- Advised a client in transaction involving the merger of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited and Bangla Entertainment Private Limited with and into Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited (part of Sony group).
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Practice head
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Shardul Shroff