Utham Chengappa

About Utham Chengappa

Utham Chengappa is a founding partner of Mani Chengappa & Mathur. Prior to founding the firm, Utham was the global Head of Commercial Transactions with additional charge of Intellectual Property matters at Infosys Limited. At Infosys, Utham managed all of legal’s client and vendor facing activities. His team successfully ran transactions worth over a billion dollars cumulatively every year across all major markets. Having begun his career as a litigator, Utham was an entrepreneur in the online legal database space and a counsel at a corporate law firm where he advised clients on employment law and intellectual property matters in addition to his core commercial transactions practice before joining Infosys.Utham’s expertise includes advising on multi-jurisdictional outsourcing transactions, managed services agreements, software procurement, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing arrangements, licensing policies and strategies, product licensing agreement, services and consultingarrangements. Having an interest in employment law matters, he also advises on employment related matters including policies and governance issues.Specialties: Outsourcing and Technology transactions, Licensing, Commercial Contracts, Employment law advisory.

Experience

1. Partner

   Mcm Law

   Aug 2012 — Present