Parent L&T has long harboured ambitions to build up its technology services business. The IT arm was founded as L&T Information Technology in 1996. In 2002, its name was changed to L&T Infotech. Between 2009 and 2012, L&T sought to scale up the services arm by attempting to acquire Satyam Computer Services, Patni Computer Systems, and Hexaware Technologies. All three attempts proved unsuccessful. In 2019, L&T acquired Mindtree and started the integration process with LTI in 2022. The acquisition was opposed by the Mindtree founders and became the country's first hostile takeover of a software services company.