
Legal, tax & regulatory leadership with over 24 years of experience in internet, tech and Web3.0 industry. Ashish is the Chief Legal & Risk Officer of Junglee Games, leading its Legal, Policy, Risk & Compliance functions. Ashish also led the legal and regulatory affairs of CoinSwitch, India's largest crypto platform which pivoted into a multi-asset wealth-tech superapp. Before CoinSwitch, Ashish worked with various large Indian and US companies like WhatsApp/Facebook, Netflix, eBay, Reliance Jio & Snapdeal. Over last 24 years, Ashish has firsthand witnessed and contributed to the growth of Internet business and related regulations and jurisprudence in India. Ashish has successfully managed sophisticated, professional, and diverse investors and board members. Some of the key skills of Ashish are: • As a deal maker, throughout his career, Ashish helped raise $8 billion in VC / PE funding, acquired about 20 businesses, and forged techno-commercial deals valuing billions of dollars in tech and internet space. Ashish's recent flagship investment deal was Facebook's US$ 5.7 billion investment in Reliance Jio - India's largest tech investment till date. Dealt with sophisticated, professional & diverse shareholders and board members and successfully handled shareholder and board dispute resolution. • As a policy advocate, Ashish has represented large corporations and industry bodies before various regulators and parliamentarians for shaping up laws and policies on Crypto, Blockchain, eCommerce, Fintech, streaming videos, telecom, data privacy and free speech. • As a strategic litigator, Ashish has successfully handled many firsts of internet related litigations in India viz., crypto taxation, intermediary safe harbor for protecting business models and coercive actions against senior management, shareholders disputes, foreign investment and competition law issues in eCommerce, opt in consents and data sharing, freedom of speech on internet, data localization, end to end encryption challenges, law enforcement related issues, and video streaming content rights and creative freedom. • As a thought leader, Ashish has authored many articles on blockchain, internet, technology and media laws, and is a regular speaker and panelist at industry leading conferences.
coinswitch.co
whatsapp.com
astro.com
junglee.games
snapdeal.com
ebayinc.com
jiostar.com
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Chief Legal & Risk Officer
Junglee Games
• www.linkedin.com/company/junglee-games
Aug 2024 - Present
Gurgaon & Bangalore
General Counsel
CoinSwitch
• www.linkedin.com/company/coinswitch
Dec 2021 - Aug 2024
Bangalore & Mumbai
Associate General Counsel
• www.linkedin.com/company/whatsapp.
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
New Delhi & Mumbai
Director - Legal (India & South Asia)
Netflix
• www.linkedin.com/company/netflix
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Mumbai Area, India
Vice President & Head Counsel (South East Asia)
Astro
• www.linkedin.com/company/astro
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Senior Vice President - Group General Counsel & Head of Taxation
Snapdeal.com
• www.linkedin.com/company/snapdeal
Oct 2014 - Apr 2017
New Delhi Area, India
Chief Legal Officer
Geometric Software (a Godrej group company)
Oct 2004 - Sep 2005
Mumbai
Company Secretary
Cyber Media India Limited
Mar 2002 - Feb 2003
New Delhi Area, India
ncr.com
netflix.com