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Rajesh Sreenivasan is a Partner and Head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Law Practice at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP and the Coordinating Partner for the firms’ multidisciplinary and cross-practice Data and Digital Economy (DDE) Legal Services. He is a Director and Co-founder of Rajah & Tann Technologies Pte Ltd and Rajah & Tann Cybersecurity Pte Ltd which are the Legaltech arms of Rajah & Tann Asia. Rajesh has been at the forefront of legal, regulatory and policy matters relating to technology procurement, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data protection, analytics and governance, telecommunications, electronic commerce, cloud computing, distributed ledger technologies, digital forensics and digital media in the region. He has since built a team of over 50 lawyers with significant depth. He has also been regularly noted and awarded by publications such as the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award most recently in 2025 as among the world's Top 20 Global Practitioners in Innovation. With over 20 years in practice, he has been universally recognised as the leading TMT lawyer in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region by all major professional ranking agencies. Rajesh entered The Legal 500’s esteemed Hall of Fame for TMT practitioners in the 2024 edition of the Asia Pacific Guide, and was recently named Lawyer of the Year for Telecommunications Law by Best Lawyers 2025. As the best of the best, he has also been consistently lauded as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Data and Telecoms & Media by the Lexology Index, standing among the top 5% of lawyers listed. Recently, Rajesh was recognised in Asia Business Law Journal's Singapore Top 100 Lawyers' A-List as a top performer in the nation's legal profession. Rajesh is the only Singapore lawyer serving on the Legal Advisory Group to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation. As an appointed member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) OECD project, he contributes actively to the multinational initiative by providing a representative deep dive into Singapore’s legislations on Artificial Intelligence and brainstorming on innovative best practices in complying with global regulatory guidelines.