She is the vice chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s information technology and IP law section
Anagha Nandakumaran, vice chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s information technology and intellectual property law section, has joined WeirFoulds as a technology and intellectual property partner.
Nandakumaran makes the jump from Fasken, where she was a senior associate concentrating on technology and commercial law. She is an expert in technology and corporate-commercial transactions, having tackled complex IT and non-IT outsourcings (including digital transformation and consulting), cloud services such as software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and anything as a service.
She has also worked on matters involving emerging technologies, managed services, software licensing, strategic partnerships, and the technology aspects of M&A deals. Her clients have included established and emerging organizations from the public and private sectors.
Nandakumaran brings in-house experience from stints at FCT as legal counsel and at Cognizant Technology Solutions as corporate counsel, according to LinkedIn. She also spent nearly two years as a senior associate at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., where she handled technology and corporate issues related to banking, e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing.
She once supported counsel advising a full-service investment dealer on a public offering of units, including issuance and over-allotment exercise. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil.
Nandakumaran is part of the Canadian Technology Law Association and has spoken on topics related to technology contracting and negotiation, artificial intelligence adoption and governance, data sovereignty, and emerging technologies. She is also a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Technology Law Association, and the Toronto Computer Lawyers Group.
She was called to the Ontario Bar in 2020. She co-authored “Canada: Code of Conduct on the Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems,” which was published in November 2023.
Earlier this year, WeirFoulds also welcomed Olalekan (Wole) Akinremi to its team as a partner focusing on IP, technology and privacy law.
