Probir Roy Chowdhury

Senior Associate

J. Sagar Associates

India

Professional Summary

Probir is a part of the firm’s Venture Capital/Private Equity Practice and Corporate Commercial Practice. He has been involved in corporate transactions focused on the high technology industry including cross border mergers and acquisitions.His transactional practice includes advice on transaction structuring, entry strategies, cross border mergers and acquisitions and foreign exchange regulations.Probir has considerable experience in the Venture Capital & Private Equity Practice of the firm. He has been involved in providing structuring advice for venture capital/private equity funds and has assisted in setting up the overseas & India operations of the funds including assisting the funds in making investments in portfolio companies.Probir also advises on various areas of Information Technology Law including outsourcing, data protection and e-commerce issues. He also has experience of providing general advice on content, negotiating carrier agreements and privacy and networking matters to IT and communications companies and their users, in international, public and private sectors.Probir has been seconded by the firm to the offices of Dr. Widmer & Partners in Berne, Switzerland, Batalla Abogados in Madrid, Spain and Lovells, Munich, Germany.Probir writes on several technology related subjects and had published articles on several topics including Data Protection in India and India’s accession to Paris Convention. He has contributed to the United Nations WSIS Summit Project on Technology Surveillance;Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business on International Franchising;chapters to Advances in Biopharmaceutical Technology in India, published by BioPlan Associates Inc.;is a regular contributor to the Computer Law Review International’; also written a paper on Privacy Laws for the Cyber Law course at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.He recently published a paper on Foreign Provision of Higher Education in India- Legal Issues and Practices, published by The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education.

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Specialization

Practice areas: Corporate Commercial, Private Equity/Venture Capital and Information Technology; Advising on diverse issues pertaining to Foreign Direct Investment in India, mergers & acquitions, fund structuring, investment in the Education sector and IT, Law Firm: Private Equity; Venture Capital, IT & ITES, Foreign Direct Investment, Eductaion