Suneeth Katarki

Suneeth Katarki is a Founding & Senior Partner of CMS INDUSLAW. His primary practice area is Mergers and Acquisitions.

His areas of expertise include domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity and venture capital investments, joint ventures and corporate restructurings, and regulatory advice in various sectors including consumer-facing technology, product and retail companies, general technology companies and fintech.

He does a significant amount of work in the regulatory and advisory space, including data privacy, telecommunications licensing, consumer technology and fintech, as well as all areas overlapping technology in e-commerce, consumer products and services, and retail.

He has been named as one of the top 50 legal icons in India and is listed in India Business Law Journal's A-List of top 100 corporate lawyers in India for the past several years.

His recognition includes being consistently recognised by Asia Law as "one of the leading lawyers of India" and listed as a 'Distinguished Practitioner' for corporate and M&A; endorsed as a 'Highly Regarded' lawyer for financial and corporate law by IFLR1000 for several years; recognised as one of the most trusted lawyers in India in the Indian Corporate Counsel Association's publication The Vanguards; consistently listed as a Band 1 lawyer for Corporate/M&A and venture capital by Chambers and Partners Asia Guide; listed as a Band 1 lawyer for Corporate/M&A: Bengaluru-based in the Chambers & Partners Global Guide 2025; recognised as a recommended lawyer for Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT) by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific Guide; and recognised as a 'Highly Regarded' lawyer for Private Equity, M&A by IFLR1000 2024–2025 Rankings. Legal 500, RSGI and other publications have also recognised him as one of the leading lawyers in corporate/M&A, private equity and investment funds, technology, data protection and intellectual property.

He writes and speaks extensively in the space he practises in and has several publications to his credit, including the chapter on "In-Depth: M&A, 18th edition" (Lexology, January 2025), "Structuring considerations for Korean M&A in India" (Asia Business Law Journal, October 2024), the India chapter on Chambers Corporate M&A 2023 (Chambers Global Practice Guide, 2023), "Strategies for South Korean investment in India" (Asia Business Law Journal, October 2023 and August 2022), "The Journey Of Virtual Digital Assets In Indian Context" (Businessworld, May 2023), the Indian chapter in Digital Business in India: A Q&A Guide (Thomson Reuters, May 2023) and "M&A Consolidations in Indian Start-Ups by Unicorns" (Chambers and Partners, March 2022).

He holds a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (1996), and is an Advocate in India. He speaks English.