Supritha Prodaturi is a Partner in the Competition Law Practice.

She has been involved in several significant merger control and enforcement cases for clients including Meta Platforms, Blackstone, Mitsui, Ctrip, Microsoft, Maruti Suzuki, Fresenius Kabi, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Indo National, DLF, and JK Tyres.

In the last year, Supritha has been involved in some of the most prominent cases in India. Supritha is currently defending WhatsApp and Meta Platforms before the India’s National Company Law Appellate Tribunal in relation to the investigation into WhatsApp’s 2021 Privacy Policy and Terms of Service update. Supritha is also representing Maruti Suzuki before India’s National Company Law Appellate Tribunal in relation to its alleged resale price maintenance and was successful in securing a stay not only on the penalty, but also on the operation of the entire CCI’s order.

Earlier, Supritha had been involved in some of the most prominent cartel and abuse of dominance cases in India, acting for clients in CCI investigations, appeals to the NCLAT and judicial review proceedings before the High Courts. She was involved in successfully defending Indo National in an alleged price fixing cartel in the market for flashlights where commercially sensitive information had been exchanged between the parties and two other manufacturers had applied for leniency. She regularly leads large teams in complex documentation review exercises. She successfully represented Aveva Information Technology in an abuse of dominance case against it.

Supritha had been involved in securing unconditional merger clearances from the CCI for various large global and Indian transactions, including Saint-Gobin’s acquisition of Fosroc’s construction chemicals business, Facebook’s acquisition of certain shareholding of Jio Platforms, HP’s acquisition of Samsung’s printer business, Tianjin Tianhai Investment Company Limited’s acquisition of Ingram Micro, and Capgemini’s acquisition of iGate.

Supritha also advises and delivers training to companies on competition law compliance issues.

Supritha has been ranked as a “Future Leader” in the Who’s Who Legal: Competition Future Leaders – Non-Partners List in 2023. She played an instrumental role in finalising the report submitted to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs by the Competition Law Review Committee, which was set up by the Government of India to consider reforms to Competition Law in India.

Before joining us, Supritha completed her B.C.L. from the University of Oxford, and was a research assistant in a prominent law school in India.

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Education

• B.C.L. from the University of Oxford