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Nihal Kothari is a technology and corporate lawyer and Partner at LegaLogic Consulting, with over 20 years of experience advising multinational corporations, technology companies, financial institutions, and growth-stage enterprises. He leads the firm's Corporate Commercial Practice, advising on technology transactions, commercial contracting, data privacy, artificial intelligence, software licensing, intellectual property, insurance, and regulatory matters across the technology, financial services, telecom, media, and insurance sectors.
His practice covers domestic and cross-border commercial contracts, outsourcing, procurement deals, strategic collaborations, contract lifecycle management, intellectual property licensing and technology transfers, software licensing, open-source compliance, software audits, remediation strategies, vendor negotiations, and insurance procurement. He advises boards, leadership teams, and in-house legal teams on structuring and negotiating strategic commercial relationships.
Nihal advises on the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), GDPR, cross-border data transfers, Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), privacy-by-design, AI governance, responsible AI adoption, technology deployments, contractual risk allocation, and evolving AI regulations. He also undertakes legal validation of AI-enabled products and services, assessing contractual, privacy, intellectual property, regulatory, governance, and compliance risks before deployment and commercialisation.
He regularly advises clients across the FinTech, Technology, Telecom, and Media (TMT) sectors on commercial and regulatory matters.
Nihal leads LegaLogic's Corporate Commercial Practice, heading a 30+ member team delivering commercial contracting, data privacy, insurance advisory, compliance, and embedded legal support across multiple jurisdictions.
Before joining LegaLogic, Nihal was Corporate Counsel with Persistent Systems and Geometric Limited, and previously practised with a leading solicitors' firm, giving him experience across both in-house and private practice.
Nihal is a regular speaker on privacy, technology, AI, and commercial law at industry forums and has served as a judge at law schools and national academic competitions.
