Vivek heads the corporate practice at Atman Law Partners. He focuses on cross-border transactions, strategic investments, joint ventures, foreign collaborations and industrial development projects including special economic zones. He also has significant experience in the technology, media and telecom sectors. Illustrative experience in this area includes assisting in domain name disputes, acquiring VOD rights to film libraries, advising on patent strategy, crafting and negotiating television advertising agreements and celebrity endorsement agreements, drafting online trading rules for a stock exchange and negotiating the procurement of a telecom network.

Vivek is an alumna of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) having graduated in 2000 and was admitted to practice in India in 2001. As a student he has interned with Justice S. Muralidhar (then an advocate at the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court), Kamini Jaiswal and Infosys Technologies Limited. Prior to founding Atman Law Partners, Vivek worked with several toptier Indian law firms in Mumbai (Bombay) and Bengaluru (Bangalore). He has also worked in-house at one of India’s largest telecom service providers.

Vivek is keenly interested in Internet policy issues. As convenor of the Computer and Law Society at NLSIU he conceived and organized Consilience 2000, a national conference focusing on technology law issues. In 2002 he was one of three candidates for election as the Domain Name Supporting Organization’s nominee to the Board of Directors of ICANN. Vivek’s articles on technology law have been published in newspapers such as the Economic Times and the Hindu Businessline. He also maintains his own blog Technology Law India.

Represented the financial services arm of a Connecticut-based global conglomerate in refinancing an Indian cement manufacturer’s captive power plant

Represented the real estate subsidiary of an Indian industrial house in its negotiations with the Government of a northern Indian state for the establishment of a special economic zone in the state

Represented an Asia fund of a global private equity major in its acquisition of a minority stake in a North Indian steel manufacturer

Represented the India office of a global hedge fund in its proposed investment in the infrastructure equipment leasing subsidiary of a Kolkata-based non banking finance company (NBFC)

Represented a major Indian hotel chain with two of its recent hotel initiatives in Bangalore

Represented the promoter of a shipping software company in his negotiations with a Hong Kong based conglomerate for an investment in the company

Represented one of two joint venture partners in a Bangalore-based cancer hospital project

Represented the promoter group of a southern Indian manufacturing company in the sale of 100 percent of the shares of the company to a Swedish multinational company

Advised a US-based non-resident Indian on preferred investment structures for an India-centric real estate fund