Neelambera Sandeepan
Lakshmikumaran & SridharanBusiness Regulation & Regulated Industries
ABOUT
Neelambera is a Partner in the competition and antitrust practice of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan with over 12 years’ experience.
Neelambera advises on the full range of competition matters, including investigations into anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominance, leniency applications, merger control, competition law audit and compliance. She regularly represents clients in proceedings before the Competition Commission of India (CCI), appellate tribunals and constitutional courts.
Neelambera has represented clients in several high-profile, precedent-setting behavioural case. She frequently advises Indian and multinational companies in the digital markets, cement, auto, aviation, railways, real estate etc.
Neelambera has obtained a significant number of merger control clearances including Phase II investigations involving divestitures in India.
Neelambera has co-authored leading guides on the law of Private Antitrust Enforcement, Digital Markets in India and Merger Control in India in The Law Reviews, Getting the Deal Through series, and International Comparative Legal Guide which are key global reference materials for these areas of law. She was invited to contribute as a guest author to the Concurrences special issue on Competition Law in India.
She holds dual masters in law degrees (LL.M.) from New York University School of Law and the National University of Singapore as a Dean’s Award Scholar.
She has previously worked in the competition law practice of a large Indian law firm, the World Trade Organization in Geneva and as a law clerk and research association to a sitting judge of the Supreme Court.
