Sumit ChakravortyTransactional Lawyer

Sumit is a transactional commercial and corporate lawyer with a cross-border practice. He also provides day to day legal and strategic advice to his clients.

Sumit is known to provide commercially sound advice and sits on a number of boards.

He has previously worked for WilmerHale, specializing in international transactions. He has represented technology companies since the mid-1990s, both public and private. His scope of work includes commercial technology arrangements from global technology outsourcings, strategic IT procurement programs and cloud solutions to more traditional software, development, licensing and support/maintenance agreements. He has also worked on M&A and private equity transactions associated with technology.

Career Highlights

• Advised software vendor and cloud services provider, on the structure, creation and implementation of a range of contractual documentation for the provision of its range of technology products and services.
• Advised global systems integrator on licensing and implementation.
• Advised a number of early stage technology companies on strategic venture capital investments.
• Advised software company in relation to its handling of a large-scale data breach.