Spice Route Legal
Mathew Chacko
Education
University of Oxford, NALSAR University, Hyderabad
What Mathew brings to the table
Mathew is a founding partner at Spice Route Legal. He leads our market-leading Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Practice Group and is widely acknowledged as one of India’s leading TMT and Data Protection lawyers. His clients include some of the largest technology, media, and telecoms giants, India’s largest financial services companies, some of the most innovative healthcare and life sciences companies, and the most innovative startups.
Mathew has been consistently recognised as a Leading Individual by Legal500, a Distinguished Practitioner by Asialaw, and ranked by Chambers & Partners for the last five years. He is also empanelled on the committee established by the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) to evaluate regulations pertaining to Asset Tokenization.
Beyond his professional accomplishments, Mathew defines himself as a tech geek and loves to chat about emerging technologies.
Outside of his expertise in all things TMT, Mathew has an avid interest in emerging Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals. To know more about the matters he has dealt with in this space, please click here.
Representative matters:
- Assisted an international joint venture of 18 commercial banks with licensing and implementation of a blockchain-powered trade finance platform.
- Assisted an American publicly listed pharmaceuticals company in a USD300 million acquisition of an Indian nutraceuticals company.
- Assisted many of the world’s largest technology companies and digital media powerhouses with some of the most complicated data protection and cybersecurity issues.
- Advising multiple prominent fintech players on the Indian regulatory framework, new initiatives, and corporate governance compliances applicable to the financial services sector, alongside liaising with the RBI (the regulatory watchdog) and structuring some of India’s most innovative fintech products.
- Assisted one of the world’s largest chargeback fraud management service providers and its Indian affiliates with a dispute arising out of the leakage of confidential information and personal data of customers.
- Advised the national flag carrier airline of India on over 25 large-scale technology licensing arrangements.
- Advised India’s largest bank on over 50 technology, software, and outsourcing arrangements.
