Neeraj Menon
Partner - Energy, Infrastructure & Projects, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
Policy Advisory| Energy | Infrastructure | Natural Resources | Climate Mitigation
Overview
Neeraj Menon is the Head of the Firm’s Projects practice and has over two decades of experience in the energy and infrastructure sector. He specialises in strategic advice, project development, investments, acquisitions, and restructurings across the energy, infrastructure, and mining industries.
He has advised extensively on the bidding and development of power, oil and gas, transport, and social infrastructure projects, and is recognised as a market leader in the energy transition, climate mitigation, and renewable energy space. His pioneering legal advice on high-value M&A transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors has enabled clients to structure and execute innovative, market-defining deals.
Neeraj also provides strategic counsel in special situations and complex regulatory or commercial disputes. His expertise is frequently sought by the Government of India and various state governments, including on the formulation of bidding guidelines and the structuring of PPP projects in the energy sector.
Over his career, Neeraj has been at the forefront of numerous first-to-market initiatives, including the first PPP project for a pumped hydro storage plant, one of the largest proposed acquisitions in the oil-to-chemicals and refining business, benchmark-setting renewable energy projects in India and overseas, one of the country’s largest BESS tenders, the first PPP metro rail project, and one of the largest Indian OTS transactions in the energy sector.
Education
- Symbiosis Law School, Pune
Admissions
- Bar Council of Delhi
- Supreme Court Bar Association
Industry body memberships
- Member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators.
- Officer of the International Bar Association, Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law Committee.
- 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.
- Neeraj is the Annual Patron for the Energy and Utilities Committee and Knowledge Partner for the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
- Neeraj is the lead contact for the Council of Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW)’s high-level working group on renewable energy, finance and policy.
- Neeraj is associated with U.S.-India Business Council and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
- He is a thought leader on policy advocacy initiatives in the energy and infrastructure sector.
- Member of the Indian Innovation Lab for Green Finance.
Select representative clients/matters
Representing clients on acquisitions, investments, bids, project development and operations, special situations, high-value commercial disputes and exits:
- Actis
- Alstom Transportation
- Apraava Energy
- ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Ltd
- Brookfield
- Capita Land
- EDF
- Enel Green Power
- ENGIE
- Edelweiss
- Global Infrastructure Partners
- IFC
- JERA
- Keppel Capital
- Keolis
- KKR
- Macquarie
- Saudi Aramco
- Sembcorp
- Shell
- Total Energy
- Torrent Power
- Vale
Recognition
- Distinguished Practitioner for Infrastructure and Energy by Asialaw 2025
- Ranked in the Projects Infrastructure and Energy – Chambers and Partners, Asia Pacific and Global 2026, 2025 & 2024 – Band 1;
- Recognized in the Hall of Fame by Legal 500 in Projects & Energy;
- Best Infrastructure Lawyer amongst 36 top-ranked infrastructure lawyers in India; RSGI-RISE Legal 2026;
- Highly Regarded’- Energy Project Development and Project Finance by IFLR1000 2025, 2024 and 2023;
- Among India Business Law Journal’s, A-list 2026, 2025, 2024 & 2023 of top 100 lawyers in India;
- Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer 2026;
- Leading Lawyer Distinguished Practitioner 2025-26 by Legal Era;
- Leading practitioner in Energy & Infrastructure by Vahura and Asialaw Profiles;
- One of India’s Future Legal Leaders 2020 by IBLJ;
- Super 50 Lawyers in India: ALB India, 2020;
- Top 20 Emerging Legal Leaders in India (RSG India, 2019)
