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Utham Chengappa is a founding partner of Mani Chengappa & Mathur. Utham acts for clients on multi-jurisdictional outsourcing transactions, managed services agreements, software procurement, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing arrangements, licensing policies and strategies, product licensing agreements, services and consulting arrangements and privacy related matters. He also leads the firm’s employment law practice and advises clients on all types of employment related matters including policies, regulatory compliance, compensation and benefits, harassment and governance issues. His unique blend of experience enables him to take a holistic view of issues and provide business enabling advice to his clients.

Mani Chengappa & Mathur is a boutique law firm based in Bangalore, India which focusses on the interface of technology, business and the law for clients from all over the world. We combine our deep understanding of the law, our passion for technology and our appreciation of business realities in advising clients across all segments of the economy. Our key differentiator is our ability to give our clients solutions that are relevant to their specific business needs while keeping them compliant with the law.

Our clients range from large multinational banks that are introducing new digital products to new fin-tech start-ups to dev-ops platforms and online restaurant start-ups. We advise clients on technology transactions, corporate transactions, regulatory questions, employment related matters, intellectual property, data protection and privacy.

Our unique combination of legal skills, global experience, and business knowledge gained over many years of in-house experience in leading Indian companies enables us to provide our clients with representation and advice that is effective, efficient and tailored to their specific legal and business needs

Utham and the team at Mani Chengappa & Mathur, have advised numerous foreign companies on the introduction of their technology products and solutions. The advice mainly centred around licensing models, regulatory issue in relation to Information Technology Laws in India and privacy issues.

Immediately prior to founding the firm, Utham was the global Head of Commercial Transactions with additional charge of Intellectual Property matters at Infosys Limited. At Infosys, Utham managed all of legal’s client and vendor facing activities. He also provided guidance on Indian law issues to the employment law team at Infosys legal. Having begun his career as a litigator, Utham was an entrepreneur in the online legal database space and a counsel at a corporate law firm where he advised clients on employment law and intellectual property matters in addition to his core commercial transactions practice before joining Infosys