Rodney D. Ryder

Our Partner, Rodney D. Ryder is the Founder and Managing Partner of Scriboard [Advocates and Legal Consultants], and heads the data privacy practice of ANM-Scriboard. He is the author of the first section-wise analysis of the Indian Information Technology Act 2000. His second book, Intellectual Property and the Internet, published by LexisNexis is perhaps the only one of its kind in Asia. The text has been acknowledged to be an authoritative work by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and has been quoted in the first-ever judgement by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on domain names. Among several other authoritative texts on Technology law and Intellectual Property, Rodney has also recently authored a detailed book titled ‘Artificial Intelligence and Law: Challenges Demystified’.

Rodney has been nominated as a ‘Leading Lawyer’ in intellectual property, technology, communications and media law by Asia Law, Who’sWhoLegal, Asia Legal 500, amongst other international publications. Rodney has been listed as one of India’s leading lawyers in the ‘40 under 45’ study conducted by WhosWhoLegal, United Kingdom. He is regularly interviewed and widely quoted by Indian and International media on technology, intellectual property and new media laws. Rodney is also a member of the panel of independent and neutral arbitrators with the Delhi International Arbitration Centre [DIAC] and the National Internet Exchange of India [NIXI].

Rodney has a long history of advising Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organisations, Government Ministries [both in India and overseas], Public Sector Undertakings, and Start-ups on all aspects related to Data Privacy and Information Technology.