Energy | Infrastructure | Mining | Acquisition, Development & Regulatory

Neeraj Menon leads the Projects practice of the firm. He specialises in strategic advice, project development, investments, acquisitions and restructurings in the energy, infrastructure and mining sectors.

Neeraj has extensively advised private sector clients on bidding and developing energy, infrastructure and mining projects and is a market leader in the renewable energy sector. He also provides strategic advice in special situations and high-value regulatory and commercial disputes. His expertise is often sought by the Government of India and state governments in the energy sector including on framing bidding guidelines and on various PPP projects.

Neeraj has worked on several first-to-market projects in the sector, including the first-of-kind PPP project for pumped hydro storage project, renewable energy PPP projects in India and Egypt, one of the first PPP metro rail projects, the largest Indian OTS transaction in the power sector to one of the largest recent project financings for a thermal power project.

RECOGNITION

‘Leading Individual’ for Projects and Energy practice by Legal500 Asia Pacific, 2022 Super 50 Lawyers in India: ALB India, 2020 Top 20 Emerging Legal Leaders in India (RSG India, 2019) Leading practitioner in the Energy & Infrastructure sector by Chambers and Partners, IFLR1000, RSG, Vahura and IBLJ One of India’s Future Legal Leaders 2020 by India Business Law Journal, a compilation of rising stars of India’s legal profession

Bar Council of Delhi

Supreme Court Bar Association

INDUSTRY BODY MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the National Committee on Power and Renewable Energy with the Confederation of Indian Industries Member of WWF-India and CII-led ‘Renewable Energy Demand Enhancement (REDE) Initiative’ Advisory committee The Annual Patron for the Energy and Utilities Committee and Knowledge Partner for the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry Lead for the Council of Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW)’s high-level working group on renewable energy, finance and policy Associated with U.S.-India Business Council and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Member of the Indian Innovation Lab for Green Finance

Partner and Head of Projects Practice

Symbiosis Law School, Pune