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Senior Partner

Suneeth Katarki

Founding & Senior Partner

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Suneeth Katarki is a founding and senior partner of CMS INDUSLAW. His areas of expertise include domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity and venture capital investments, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. He does a significant amount of work in the general technology and telecommunications regulatory and advisory space including data privacy, telecommunications licensing, consumer technology and fintech as well as all areas overlapping technology in media and telecom.

Suneeth has been named as one of the top 50 legal icons in India and is listed in India Business Law Journal’s A-List of top 100 corporate lawyers in India for the past few years.

Legal Publications such as Asia Law have consistently recognised Suneeth as “one of the leading lawyers of India”. AsiaLaw has also listed him as a ‘Distinguished Practitioner’ for corporate and M&A. Suneeth has been endorsed as a ‘Highly Regarded’ lawyer for financial and corporate law by IFLR1000 for the last several years and as one of the most trusted lawyers in India in the Indian Corporate Counsel Association’s publication The Vanguards.

He has also received several accolades including being consistently listed as a Band 1 lawyer for Corporate/M&A and venture capital by Chambers and Partners Asia Guide. Chambers & Partners Global Guide 2025 also listed him as Band 1 lawyer for Corporate/M&A: Bengaluru-based. He has also been recognised as a recommended lawyer for Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT) by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific Guide. He has been recognised as a ‘Highly Regarded’ lawyer for Private equity, M&A by IFLR1000 2024-2025 Rankings (34th edition).

Legal 500, RSGI and other publications have also recognised him as one of the leading lawyers in corporate/M&A, private equity and investment funds, technology, data protection and intellectual property.

Suneeth also writes and speaks extensively in the space he practises in and has several publications to his credit.

Publications

Chapter on "In-Depth: M&A; 18th edition, providing an insightful analysis of the current M&A landscape in India.", Lexology – January 2025

Article on Structuring considerations for Korean M&A in India, Asia Business Law Journal - October 2024

India chapter on Chambers Corporate M&A 2023, Chambers Global Practice Guide - 2023

Article on Strategies for South Korean investment in India, Asia Business Law Journal - October 2023

Article on The Journey Of Virtual Digital Assets In Indian Context, Businessworld - May 2023

ndian chapter in Digital Business in India: A Q&A Guide, Thomson Reuters- May 2023

Article on Strategies for South Korean investment in India, Asia Business Law Journal - August 2022

Article on M&A Consolidations in Indian Start-Ups by Unicorns, Chamber and Partners - March 2022

Memberships & Roles

Awards & Rankings

asialaw

Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific

Chambers & Partners Global

IFLR1000

Indian Business Law Journal (IBLJ)

RSGI

The Legal500 Asia-Pacific

World Trademark Review

Education

B.A. LL.B.(Hons.) National Law School of India University, Bangalore (1996)

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