Nayantara Nag
Partner - Energy, Infrastructure & Projects, Policy Advisory
Power | Oil and Gas | Infrastructure
Overview
Nayantara Nag is a Partner in the Projects practice in Trilegal. She has significant experience in representing the government, lenders, sponsors, developers and contractors in infrastructure projects across various sectors such as power, oil and gas, transport, social infrastructure, water, waste management, and smart cities.
Nayantara advises on transaction structures and regulatory framework for project development; conducting legal reviews, bankability analysis and due diligence; conducting bid processes; drafting, review and negotiation of bid documents, concession agreements, construction contracts, supply contracts, consultancy contracts, operation and maintenance contracts, power purchase agreements and off-take agreements. While Nayantara has advised clients on high-profile M&A and joint venture transactions in the energy and infrastructure space, she has an equally enviable track record of advising on greenfield project development and innovative and first-of-its-kind public-private partnership projects in various sectors.
Education
University of Delhi, LLB – Campus Law Centre
Admissions
Bar Council of Delhi
Industry body memberships
- Member of the Council of Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW)’s high-level working group on renewable energy finance and policy
- Advising the Government of Fiji on overhauling its laws and policies on strata title development
- Speaker in IFCCI Webinar in collaboration with Medef International on Regulatory Framework and Policy Initiatives for Waste Management and Water Treatment in India
- Speaker on WinPE webinar on the impact of Covid on M&A transactions and at an IFC session on impact of Covid on PPP contracts
Select representative clients/matters
- Total-Adani JV, on its contracts for purchase and downstream sale of LNG, terminal use agreements, gas transportation agreements, and capacity sub-let agreements.
- Saudi Aramco, on its ongoing acquisition of a stake in the chemicals and refining business of Reliance Industries Ltd
- Azure Power, on its sale of its rooftop portfolio in India
- JERA Co, on investment in ReNew Power Ventures, one of India’s largest renewable energy companies
- Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, on proposed 100 million USD investment, for setting up a platform with AMP Energy to undertake the development of renewable solar/wind/hybrid power projects in India
- Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, on the acquisition of a solar projects’ portfolio held by Hindustan Power
- Virgin Hyperloop, on regulatory framework to set up a pilot hyperloop system in India through a swiss challenge mode
- PSA – PSA’s Bharat Mumbai Container Terminal, on review and revise their entire suite of tender documents for procurement of material, works and services at Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (BMCT), the facility run by Singapore’s PSA International Pte Ltd at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT)
- IFC and Government of Odisha, in relation to developing affordable housing facilities on a PPP basis in Bhubaneshwar
- IFC, National Mission on Clean Ganga, state government and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs),
development of wastewater treatment facilities with private sector participation in the cities of Matura-Vrindavan, Varanasi and Haridwar to support the rejuvenation of Ganga under the “Namami Gange” program to be implemented on PPP basis - IFC, on their Bangalore Street Lighting Project on the implementation of energy efficiency measures in the street lighting network in Bengaluru through public-private partnership
- IFC and the World Bank, on revising model bid documents for procurement and operation of electric buses on a gross cost contract (GCC) basis
Recognition
- ‘Distinguished Practitioner’ for Infrastructure & Energy – Asialaw, 2025
- Ranked ‘Leading Lawyers Champions Star Practitioners’ in Projects and Energy by Legal Era, 2025-26
- Recognised as a ‘RISE Rated Lawyer’ in Infrastructure by RSGI, 2026
- Ranked by Chambers & Partners Global, for Projects & Infrastructure, 2023-2026
- Ranked as a ‘Leading Partners‘ by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide, 2026
- Ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific, for Projects Infrastructure & Energy, 2021-2026
- ‘Highly Regarded‘ & ‘Women Leader‘ for Project Development by IFLR1000, 2023-2025
- ALB 40 Under 40 Lawyers in Asia, 2022
- ALB India Rising Stars, 2022
- ‘Notable Practitioner‘ for Project Development by IFLR1000, 2021-2022
- IFLR – Asia Future Leaders, 2021
