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Krishnamurthy and Co Offices
96 FREE PRESS HOUSE
215 NARIMAN POINT
MUMBAI 400 021
India
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Ms Naina Krishna Murthy
Work Department
Corporate & Commercial
Position
Founder & Managing Partner
With over 26 years of experience, Naina specializes in corporate commercial law, specifically M&A, JV, collaborations and PE/VC investments.
Career
Naina Krishna Murthy, one of India’s most formidable legal advisors, is the Founder and Managing Partner of K Law. She started her career with Arthur Anderson followed by a stint as the In-house Counsel at Biocon. Founded in 1999 in Bengaluru, K Law, under Naina’s leadership and guidance, is a major player in the Indian legal market today.
Naina is also a trusted legal advisor to some of the foremost corporates in India. She is on the Board of several leading organizations, including the Universal Business School. Naina has co-chaired the Infosys Grievance Redressal Board for five years. In addition to that, she has been on committees of various companies involving sexual harassment complaints. Some of these companies are Novartis India Ltd, Mphasis Ltd, McAfee Software India Pvt Ltd, GE India Technology and British Telecom, among others.
Naina has been appointed as the external Ombudsman of SB Energy, a Softbank company. She has also served as a Director of various companies including National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd. Currently, she is on the Board of Bajaj Energy Ltd. since March, 2019 and IndoStar Capital Finance Ltd. since February, 2018.
Naina has been acclaimed tremendously as being at the forefront for women in business. She has been receognised by the Forbes India Legal Powerlist 2021 in the Top 50 Managing Partners in the “Above 10 Years’ experience” category and the Top 100 Individual Lawyers in the “Above 10 Years’ experience” category, and featured in the Managing Partner Roundtable by Asian Legal Business India Edition, 2020 and under “The 10 Most Successful Lawyers to Watch in 2020” by Business Connect. Naina has been widely appreciated by accolades including being awarded the Woman of Excellence Award and the Business Leadership Award hosted by Indian Achievers Forum, 2020; the Most Influential Woman in M&A Law by APAC-Insider 2016, Woman Leadership for Excellence in Entrepreneurship award by CMO Asia, Pan Pacific, Singapore, and Woman Lawyer of the Year by Legal Era Awards in 2013. Also, apart from her practice of law, her interests go beyond to animal welfare, environment conservation and education of the impoverished.
Languages
English, Kannada, Hindi
Memberships
Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa
Education
National Law School, Bengaluru
Lawyer Rankings
India > Private equity and investment funds
The team at Krishnamurthy and Co has demonstrable experience in handling domestic and cross-border transactions, representing funds, investee entities, and strategic investors across a range of sectors, including healthcare, retail, renewable power, education, and technology. Based in Mumbai, Naina Krishna Murthy jointly leads the team alongside Rukmini Roychowdhury, while Shwetambari Rao operates from the firm’s Bangalore office and advises on private equity and venture capital transactions, in addition to inbound and outbound investments. Alok Sonker is another key contact in the team.
India > Life sciences and healthcare
Krishnamurthy and Co advises healthcare providers, pharma and biotech companies, and a wide range of private equity investors on transactions, intellectual property issues, and regulatory matters, with a particular strength in private equity and VC investments and joint ventures. The firm also has notable expertise in cross-border considerations and issues relating to patents- both application and protection, including contentious cases. The team is led by Naina Krishna Murthy in Mumbai, an experienced corporate practitioner who regularly advises PE and VC clients, alongside Bengaluru-based firm managing partner Shwetambari Rao, who is also strong on corporate and commercial life sciences and pharma matters, and Mumbai’s Rukmini Roychowdhury.
India > Corporate and M&A
(Leading individuals)Representing multinationals from across the manufacturing, IT, and infrastructure sectors, Krishnamurthy and Co’s corporate and M&A offering covers all aspects of transactional and advisory mandates. The team displays considerable strength in private equity and venture capital investments, with Mumbai-based founding partner, Naina Krishna Murthy specialising in corporate law and joint venture matters. Rukmini Roychowdhury has vast experience of executing M&A and financing transactions, whilst in Bengaluru, Shwetambari Rao is an expert on corporate restructurings. Christopher Rao, who was promoted to partner in April 2023, handles debt financing issues.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals India > Corporate and M&A
- Life sciences and healthcare India
- Corporate and M&A India
- Private equity and investment funds India