Co-Founder & Director
Nandan Kamath
Nandan is a dual-qualified lawyer, licensed to practice in India and California. He is a specialist in sports law, governance and regulation. He is the Founder and Principal Lawyer at LawNK, representing a wide array of clients including athletes, federations, sports organizations, and leagues. He is also the co-founder and Managing Trustee of GoSports Foundation, a National Award-winning excellence and performance organization for elite athletes. He was involved with drafting the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, which has been widely credited for India’s unprecedented success at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Nandan has worked extensively on the policy side including as a member of the committee to re-draft the National Sports Code that sets the standard for governance of national sports federations, of the NITI Aayog constituted Working Group for the policy paper on a national Justice Stack, and of several sports committees at the state and central government level.
Nandan is a frequent columnist and speaker on matters relating to sport, technology and law, and was the Co-Editor of Go! India’s Sports Transformation, Penguin Random House, 2019, and edited and contributed to Law Relating to Computers, Internet and E-Commerce: A Guide to Cyberlaws and the Information Technology Act, 2000 – Universal Law Publishing Co, Delhi. He has taught courses on Sports Law at the National Law School of India University. Nandan has represented the Karnataka state junior teams in cricket.
Select articles, interviews, and podcasts:
- Great sporting nations are built on collaborative efforts, Deccan Herald, August 8, 2021.
- Emerging from the shadows: The evolving legal treatment of fantasy sports in India, International Sports Law Journal, July 1, 2021 (co-authored with Abhinav Shrivastava and R. Seshank Shekar).
- Why India needs a sports regulator, Mint, August 31, 2018.
- The way forward for sports federations, Sportstar, September 19, 2017.
- Fighting sports corruption in India: A review of the National Sports Ethics Commission Bill, 2016, LawinSport, July 1, 2016.
- Episode 238: The State of Indian Sport The Seen and the Unseen podcast with Amit Varma and Joy Bhattacharjya, August 16, 2021.
- Episode 113, LawinSport podcast, August 2021.