Madhura Shanthini

Senior Associate

Madhura Shanthini is a Senior Associate at KRIA Law and has profound experience assisting clients with transactional legal requirements including commercial contracts, intellectual property, technology laws, data protection and privacy.

Having graduated from School of Excellence in Law (Chennai) in 2019, Madhura started her career with a pioneering Intellectual Property Law firm in Chennai. Driven by her passion for Technology Laws, she joined Zoho Corp, a reputed Indian SaaS unicorn as an in-house legal Counsel and focussed on legal and data protection compliance for 3 years. As an integral part of its Data Protection Team, she worked on the Privacy requirements across the globe including compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, FERPA, etc to name a few.

Having worked at a Law Firm and as an in-house counsel, she identifies the client requirement and addressed them swiftly and adequately. Such diversity brought her ease in understanding businesses' functioning while identifying the needs and risks involved to suitably protecting the clients' interests.

Madhura also holds a Diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Laws from NUJS, and an online certification ‘CS50 for Lawyers’ from Havard School.

Beyond academics, while at Law School Madhura had bagged awards at various Moot Court competitions and paper presentations, including being the runners-up at Asia Pacific Moot Court Competition 2019 held by International Trademarks Association (INTA) in Singapore.

She also volunteers actively with Bhumi Organization, leading teams at chapter and national levels, in promoting education and upskilling of underprivileged children.