Patni Building opened by company founder and Chairman, Narendra Patni and Chief Executive, Jeya Kumar

Mumbai/London, 28 May, 2009: Patni Computer Systems (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI), a leading global IT and BPO services provider, today opened its new EMEA headquarters, based at Heathrow in London. The investment in a new regional headquarters with dedicated operational facilities enables Patni to place an increased focus on helping businesses across Europe and the Middle East to achieve both operational efficiencies and continue to innovate in new products and services.

The new headquarters will be a home to the company’s UK employees and support Patni’s centres across Europe and the Middle East, including Germany, Finland, Sweden and The Netherlands. The Patni Building is is spread over nearly 14,000 sq ft and hosts a dedicated delivery centre together with business development and administrative functions. With 15 years’ experience servicing clients in this region, the building will provide a new facility for Patni to serve its extensive customer base through its industry-focused practices, which includes insurance, financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications and media & entertainment, as well as its technology-focused practices.

Company founder and Chairman Narendra Patni said: “For the EMEA region, what differentiates our approach is the blend of a deep understanding of local markets complemented by high quality services provided on-site and offshore.  Our investment in the new headquarters sends a clear signal of our commitment to growth in this region.”

Patni’s Chief Executive Jeya Kumar commented: “Our dual strategy of unlocking cost savings and efficiencies through outsourcing and using our expertise locally to help our customers innovate is ideal. As we continue to invest in the region, our EMEA headquarters provides a strong platform for us to build effective partnerships with our customers.”

Patni’s Executive Vice-President with responsibility for EMEA, Brian Stones, added: “We have worked to establish a platform for creating the right conditions for providing excellence to our customers in the region. This started with the appointment of the best management team and now it continues with the opening of a high profile regional headquarters. We believe that Patni is well-placed to help businesses meet their efficiency objectives and that we are well-positioned to help them grow as market conditions improve.”

About Patni
Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is a global provider of IT Services and business solutions, servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni services its clients through its industry-focused practices, including banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI); manufacturing, retail and distribution (MRD); life sciences; communications, media and utilities (CMU), and its technology-focused practices.

With an employee strength of over 14,500; multiple global delivery centres spread across 12 cities worldwide; 27 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific; Patni has registered revenues of US$ 719 million for the year 2008.

Patni’s service offerings include application development and maintenance, enterprise application solutions, business and technology consulting, product engineering services, infrastructure management services, customer interaction services & business process outsourcing, quality assurance and engineering services.

Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its clients’ businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMI Level 5 (V 1.2) organisation, assessed enterprise wide at P-CMM Level 3. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks.

Patni leverages its vast experience spanning three decades; deep domain expertise; full-spectrum services; and suites of IP-led solutions, methodologies and frameworks; in being an effective business transformation partner to its clients.

For more information on Patni, visit www.patni.com.

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Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements.  The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry.   The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.