Shashank Mishra

Shashank Mishra advises on all aspects of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector from a regulatory, disputes and policy perspective.

He possesses first-hand experience in:

• representing clients before various Courts and tribunals across India, advising on litigation strategy, and carrying out end-to-end litigation management.
• risk analysis, impact assessments and compliance strategies in relation to technology product launches, changes in legal framework or other operational or policy triggers for clients.
• devising policy positions on new legal and regulatory issues impacting clients’ businesses, submissions to regulators and governments on their behalf, and
• training them for depositions before parliamentary committees and other Legislative or Executive bodies.
  drafting and negotiating transaction documents for IT and telecom services, transfer of telecom assets and conducting due diligences.

He has acquired sectoral expertise in TMT through handling a multitude of issues for clients at various stages of their business cycles from market entry, consolidation and expansion to insolvency and other forms of market exits. He has seconded at erstwhile Vodafone India’s Mumbai offices and handled transactions and regulatory issues for their enterprise business. He has also assisted in high profile and high stakes disputes often having global ramifications from a technology and telecom law perspective.

Shashank has advised clients such as WhatsApp, Meta, Amazon, Alibaba Group, Vodafone, Citibank, IPC Networks, Inshorts, GoDaddy, Singtel, British Telecom, IndiaMart, Idemia Group, Snap, Uber and Hotstar on issues such as intermediary liability, privacy and data protection, content regulation, telecom and broadcast licensing, OTT regulation, cybersecurity, surveillance, law enforcement data access, election regulations, e-commerce, consumer protection, gaming, media laws, algorithmic fairness, data localization, net neutrality, conflict of laws, invoking constitutional rights against private actors, Aadhaar regulations, and deployment of emerging technologies.