Atima is a corporate, commercial and regulatory lawyer with 12 years of experience, including over 11 years at AZB & Partners, where she was most recently a Partner in the corporate and commercial practice group. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies and other multinational businesses, particularly in the technology, e-commerce and retail sectors, on a range of legal and regulatory matters relating to their businesses in India. Atima’s experience also includes ongoing legal advisory work for a global technology company across its commercial, operational, governance and employment requirements in India.
Atima’s practice covers commercial contracts and the legal and regulatory aspects of digital products, services, and platforms. She has experience advising on consumer protection, data privacy, intermediary liability, information technology laws and foreign exchange control requirements. Her work also includes product launches, regulatory compliance, marketing initiatives and digital platform policies, as well as responding to regulatory notices.
Atima also has substantial experience in Indian employment and labor laws, frequently advising multinational businesses on workforce and employment matters in India. This includes workforce restructuring and redundancies, changes to compensation and working hours, alternative workforce models, co-employment, trade union matters, employment due diligence in acquisitions and business transfers, and post-acquisition employee integration. She has also worked on adapting global employment contracts, policies and practices to Indian law, including in the context of the new Indian Labour Codes.