Tanu Banerjee Leaves Khaitan And Co To Be Chief Legal Officer At Jio Studios
Tanu Banerjee has been appointed chief legal officer at Jio Studios, leaving Khaitan and Co after more than five years to move from advising the media industry to sitting inside one of its largest players.
- Role: chief legal officer, Jio Studios
- Joins from: Khaitan and Co, where she was the firm's first specialist technology, media and telecom partner in Mumbai
- Earlier: partner at IndusLaw in Bengaluru for four years
- Before that: senior associate at Wadia Ghandy and Co and at DSK Legal, three years each
- Career start: legal counsel at Reliance ADAG between 2008 and 2010
What Tanu Banerjee Built At Khaitan
A top-tier technology, media and telecom practice from scratch, as the firm's first specialist partner in that field in Mumbai. Law firm partners rarely walk away from a practice they built themselves, which is what makes the move worth reading closely.
Her work has sat at the intersection of law, technology and creativity, advising content studios, streaming platforms, digital media businesses, film producers, music labels, talent, brands and technology companies. The subject matter ranges across mergers and acquisitions, fundraises and strategic investments, joint ventures, content and intellectual property deals, branding collaborations, software licences, outsourcing contracts, SaaS agreements, cybersecurity and digital payment structures. She has also helped global and Indian clients set up and scale operations in India, which is a cross-border fluency few in-house teams have on day one.
Why Jio Studios Wanted An Adviser In The Chair
Because the problems have changed shape. Streaming platforms and content businesses now sit inside a tangle of regulatory, transactional and commercial questions that rarely arrive one at a time, and a legal chief who has already worked the advisory side of those exact deals reads risk and opportunity faster than one learning the sector from inside.
Her recognition tracks the specialism: consistent rankings among India's leading technology, media and telecom lawyers, a Chambers and Partners ranking, leading partner status for TMT at Legal500 Asia-Pacific, leading lawyer in India from Media Law International, notable practitioner status from Asialaw, a place on the ALB Super 50 India list, LegalEra's leading lawyer for media and entertainment, and a spot on Business World's 40 Under 40 in 2021. There is also a neat symmetry to the move: she began her career as legal counsel at Reliance ADAG, and now returns to the wider Reliance orbit. More appointments.
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