Team Practice Areas: Projects, Energy & Infrastructure
Monali Dutta
Monali is a Partner in the Corporate & Commercial practice group of the firm. She has extensive experience in the projects and infrastructure space (including M&A and corporate restructuring in the infrastructure and projects space). Her focus practice areas are PPP projects, aerospace and defence, social infrastructure and project development in traditional infrastructure building space such as roads, ports, railways, etc.
Shailendra Kumar Singh
Shailendra has close to 19 years of experience in providing transaction advisory and legal services to corporate and government clients in the energy and infrastructure space in a diverse range of sub-sectors, as well as on government policy and regulatory issues. Shailendra is a Partner in Projects, Energy & Infrastructure practice group of the firm.
His primary practice area spans across a broad range of commercial and regulatory legal advice in power, oil & gas, mining, transport, social and urban infrastructure development projects along with dispute resolution. Shailendra has provided legal services to clients with respect to drafting, reviewing, and negotiation of various contracts as well as advice on contract strategy, structuring, drafting and negotiations of project documents besides advising on government policy, regulatory issues and corporate/commercial laws. He has also advised Government(s) on structuring and drafting of legislation(s) and policies.
Shailendra is known for his thought leadership pertaining to legal developments in the infrastructure space and regularly speaks at various prestigious conferences and has been a visiting faculty at IPPRI. Shailendra has, in the past worked with Trilegal, L&L Partners and was Partner and Head of Infrastructure and Projects practice at Advaita Legal. He is a law graduate from the prestigious University of Delhi; completed his LL.M. from Kurukshetra University and has an MBA degree as well to his credit.
Hemant Sahai
Hemant Sahai is the Founding Partner of HSA Advocates and is responsible for the firm’s strategic growth and development
In a career spanning over three decades, he has developed a distinct focus on projects, energy & infrastructure, regulatory disputes and governance issues impacting companies and their boards.
As a member of several government committees, Hemant frequently advises ministries and regulatory authorities on refining the legal and policy framework in India. He advises companies and their boards on a range of aspects such as enterprise risk, corporate governance, regulatory challenges, corporate restructuring and dispute strategy.
Hemant is a member of the boards of several organizations, including public listed companies. He has studied B. Com (Hons) and LL.B. at University of Delhi and is also a member of International Bar Association.
Soumya Kanti De Mallik
Soumya is a partner in the Corporate & Commercial and Projects, Energy and Infrastructure practice group of the firm.
With over 15 years of experience, he specializes in M&As, JVs, greenfield and PPP projects, urban development, smart cities and industrial corridors projects and general corporate advisory assignments.