Divya Balagopal

MLP (Mundkur Law Partners) is an award-winning, boutique law firm based in Bangalore, India. The firm’s practice focusses on five areas: M&A (including private equity and venture capital), education law, life sciences and healthcare, insolvency resolution, and complex commercial disputes. The firm specializes in working on complex, cross-border transactions. And the firm is reputed for consistently ensuring complete partner involvement and for adding exceptional commercial value in all its engagements. The firm’s clients range in size from listed multinationals to newly formed start-ups that operate across diverse industries—from brick and mortar manufacturing, to cutting edge drug-discovery and fintech businesses.

DES (HEI, Geneva)

BA, LLB (Hons) (NLSIU)

Divya specialises in education law and policy. Her work includes advising state governments on these issues, serving on the advisory board of a charity that runs India’s largest free, lunch program for school children, and providing legal advice to schools, colleges, education trusts, and education services businesses. She previously worked with UNICEF in Geneva, and lead the legal team advising the newly formed nation of South Sudan on child rights, in 2013, as part of a UNICEF-funded project. She has also appeared before various courts and tribunals in India, and is an empanelled commercial arbitrator with the Indian Institute of Arbitration and Mediation.