Naina Krishna Murthy

Naina Krishna Murthy is the Founder and Managing Partner of K Law. She started her career with Arthur Anderson followed by a stint as the in-house Counsel at Biocon. Naina founded K Law in 1999 in Bengaluru; under her leadership and guidance, K Law today is a full service Indian law firm with 80+ lawyers in offices at Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Chennai. Naina is based out of the Mumbai office.

Naina has been practicing law for 24 years and specialises in corporate commercial law, specifically mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, collaborations and PE/VC investments. Naina is also a trusted legal advisor to some of the foremost corporates in India.

Naina is on the Board of several leading organisations, including the Universal Business School. She has co-chaired the Infosys Grievance Redressal Board for five years. In addition to that, she has been on committees of various companies involving sexual harassment complaints. Some of these companies are Novartis India Ltd; Mphasis Ltd; McAfee Software India Pvt Ltd; GE India Technology and British Telecom, among others.

Naina has represented eminent Indian and overseas clients on their operations in India and abroad, such as L&T, Ryerson Steel, Reliance Industries, and Dell Engineering Services, and she has been appointed as the external Ombudsman of SB Energy, a Softbank company. She has authored many articles and white papers on topics including Trade and Renewable Energy.

She has also served as director with companies such as National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd. Currently, she is on the board of Bajaj Energy Ltd since March 16, 2019, and IndoStar Capital Finance Ltd since February 5, 2018.

Awards and Recognition

• Awarded Woman of Excellence Award hosted by Indian Achievers Forum, 2020
• Recommended as a notable practitioner for Corporate/M&A in Chambers & Partners APAC, 2019
• Recognised as India Business Law Journal’s ‘A-List’ of India’s top 100 lawyers, 2016 & 2017
• Recognised as Most Influential Woman in M&A Law, APACInsider, 2016
• Recognised as Market-leading lawyer for Corporate/M&A by Asialaw Profiles, 2016
• Awarded Woman Leadership for Excellence in Entrepreneurship, hosted by CMO Asia, Pan Pacific, Singapore, 2013
• Named Woman Lawyer of the Year by Legal Era Awards, 2013
• Featured in Entrepreneur India magazine, March 2013 edition

External Member of Committees

Naina has wide experience as an external member of committees of large multinational corporates for guidance on handling various matters including whistle-blower complaints. Some of these include:

• SB Energy - External Ombudsman of the company
• Infosys – The Grievance Redressal Board: Co-chair for five years.
• L&T Finance – Complaints Committee.
• Novartis – Complaints Committee
• Bharati-AXA – Complaints Committee
• OML – External Committee.
• Mphasis Ltd – Sexual Harassment Committee;
• McAfee Software India Pvt Ltd – Sexual Harassment Committee.
• GE India Technology – Sexual Harassment Committee.
• British Telecom – Sexual Harassment Committee.