Gautam Busi
Partner
EDUCATION
- B.A.,LL.B (Hons.), NLSIU Bangalore (2001)
- PGD (Technology Laws), NALSAR (2003)
- LL.M (Business Laws), Department of Law (OU) (2004)
PRACTICE FOCUS
- Data Protection and Privacy
- Telecom, Media and Telecommunications
- Capital Markets
- Employment
- Risk Mitigation and Audits
- Corporate Advisory
PROFILE
Gautam has over two decades of experience in handling a variety of corporate and commercial transactions and providing legal advisory in the areas of data protection and privacy, GDPR compliances, privacy risk management and audits, trans-border use of technology, cyber laws, contracts management, compliance management, regulatory management, dispute resolution including arbitration and conciliation in trans-border and domestic environment across IT & ITeS, TMT, capital markets, healthcare, banking, insurance, BPO industries and telecom shared services operations across Europe, United States, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Oceania.
In his engagements with large MNCs like Vodafone, ICICI Bank, Reliance Life Insurance, KFitnech and Apollo, Gautam was engaged in supporting their domestic and international operations including joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, new businesses and leading their legal, compliance, regulatory and dispute resolutions domains.
REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS
- Advised a large UK-based MNC in setting up its data protection and privacy framework in India and successfully carried out PRIA across the company ensuring 100% compliance in statutory & group audits under GDPR and IT Act, 2000 along IT (RSPP & SPDI) Rules, 2011.
- Advised large MNCs in India in transitioning businesses from GDPR jurisdictions including the European Union (including UK), United States, Oceania region, middle eastern nations including Bahrain & UAE, and Africa and implementing their inter-company agreements in India including the standard contractual clauses.
- Advised large MNCs in India in devising and executing data protection and privacy policies, implementing PRIA, employee policies, and business policies.
- Advised a large US-based MNC in reviewing all of its technology related contracts and advising on mitigation of risk from GDPR perspective.
- Represented large UK-based MNC and MNCs in India before Department of Telecommunications at Bangalore and Pune in obtaining required permits to operate both in domestic and international domain, and also in mitigating the risk issues.
- Represented a large healthcare MNC in India in setting up healthcare units pan India by carrying out legal due diligence and obtaining required licenses and permits to operate the healthcare business.