WHO's WHO LEGAL names Malavika Jayaram as one of the top lawyers for Internet and e-Commerce Issues in India
Malavika Jayaram
WHO'sWHOLEGAL published an online biography of Malavika:
A dual-qualified lawyer, Malavika spent eight years in London - with Allen & Overy as an IP/IT lawyer in the communications, media & technology group; and with Citigroup, first as vice president and counsel in the technology legal team, and later as senior business analyst.
A lawyer for over 15 years, she relocated to India in 2006. She is a partner at Jayaram & Jayaram, focusing on domestic and cross-border corporate and technology intensive transactions. She represents clients in the aerospace, automotive, hydraulics and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as in the information technology, e-commerce and communication spaces. She has a special interest in new media and the arts, and advises start-ups, innovators, educational institutions and artists on digital rights, cultural heritage and the dissemination of creative works. Malavika is a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society, reviewing and commenting on legislative and policy developments, and will have a monograph on privacy and identity in India published this year.
A graduate of the National Law School of India, she has an LLM from Northwestern University, Chicago. She is working on a PhD on data protection and privacy, with a special focus on India's e-governance schemes and the new biometric ID project. She is on the advisory board of the Indian Journal of Law & Technology, and is the author of the India chapter of Getting the Deal Through - Data Protection & Privacy, which is being launched this year. Malavika will be a visiting scholar during autumn 2012 at the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania.
