Ashish leads the legal and regulatory affairs of WhatsApp for India (its largest and one of the most important markets in the world). He is also building the e-commerce and fintech / payments business of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp in India.

In the past, Ashish has worked with various large Indian and US companies like Netflix, eBay, Reliance Jio & Snapdeal. Over last 20 years, Ashish has firsthand witnessed and contributed to the growth of Internet business and related regulations and jurisprudence in India.

Some of the key skills of Ashish are:

As a deal maker, throughout his career, Ashish has structured approx. $8 billion in VC / PE funding, acquired about 20 businesses, and forged strategic tie-ups valuing billions of dollars in tech and internet space. Ashish’s recent investment deal was Facebook’s US$ 5.7 billion investment in Reliance Jio – India’s largest tech investment till date.

As a policy advocate, Ashish has represented large corporations and industry bodies before various regulators and parliamentarians for shaping up laws and policies on eCommerce, digital payments, streaming videos, telecom, data privacy and free speech.

As a strategic litigator, Ashish has successfully handled many firsts of internet related litigations in India viz., intermediary safe harbor for protecting business models and coercive actions against senior management, shareholders disputes, foreign investment and competition law issues in eCommerce, opt in consents and data sharing, freedom of speech on internet, data localization, end to end encryption challenges, law enforcement related issues, and video streaming content rights and creative freedom. As a thought leader, Ashish has authored many articles on internet, technology and media laws, and is a regular speaker and panelist at industry leading conferences.