Ankita Pawar

Ankita is a corporate, commercial, and technology lawyer with a specialist focus on artificial intelligence advisory, technology transactions, and commercial contracting. She advises organisations across growth stages and industry sectors on structuring contracts, frameworks, and internal systems that align business strategy with legal requirements and technology enablement.

Her practice includes advising on the legal and regulatory dimensions of enterprise AI adoption, including the design and implementation of AI governance frameworks such as acceptable use policies, procedural guardrails, and contractual controls calibrated to organisational risk tolerance and regulatory obligations. She leads the drafting and negotiation of AI-related provisions in customer, vendor, and strategic partnership agreements, taking a structured and commercially focused approach to complex terms and ensuring an appropriate allocation of rights, obligations, and risk.

On the commercial contracting side, Ankita advises on end-to-end transaction support across procurement, sales, and partnership functions. She focuses on strengthening the legal architecture of commercial arrangements by reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, allocating and mitigating risk, and aligning legal positions with business objectives. Her work includes developing and refining contract playbooks, standard form templates, and negotiation frameworks, as well as conducting detailed contract reviews and risk assessments to support consistency, efficiency, and scalability across transactions.

Ankita also designs and delivers training and capability-building programmes for procurement teams, business stakeholders, sales functions, and CXOs on contractual risk management in technology and AI-enabled transactions. These sessions focus on interpreting and negotiating complex contractual clauses, understanding liability and risk allocation, and aligning internal stakeholders on standardised contracting positions for repeatable deal structures.

Collectively, her advisory, documentation, and training work enables organisations to embed robust, scalable, and commercially pragmatic contracting practices into their technology- and AI-driven initiatives.