Nitin Banerjee joins JSA as Partner Former Senior Lead Counsel BG Group to be part of JSA Projects team

Nitin Banerjee, former Senior Lead Counsel (AMEA Region) at Oil & Gas major BG Group PLC UK, has joined the Delhi office of J. Sagar Associates with effect from August 3, 2012. Nitin, a Projects lawyer, qualified both in India and UK will be part of the Projects team chaired by Partner Sumanto Basu..Nitin Banerjee, former Senior Lead Counsel (AMEA Region) at Oil & Gas major BG Group PLC UK, has joined the Delhi office of J. Sagar Associates with effect from August 3, 2012. Nitin, a Projects lawyer, qualified both in India and UK will be part of the Projects team chaired by Partner Sumanto Basu..Nitin has significant Energy, Infrastructure and Corporate Commercial experience and has a good mix of private practice and in-house experience in a number of legal and management roles. He has worked on transactions in several countries across the globe. His expertise includes Projects, M&A and disposals (including farm-in and upstream developments), governance and Corporate Commercial matters..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Nitin said, “I am delighted to be back in India to join JSA. JSA has a fantastic energy practice and some great lawyers and it will be a privilege to be part of this team.”.Talking about his decision to move back to India Nitin said, “There is a lot happening in the energy space and I see this as a real opportunity to be part of it. Having worked in-house with the BG Group, especially working overseas on a variety of complex international oil & gas projects, I have gained valuable experience on how global energy companies operate. This gives me a great opportunity to help industry at large, my clients and the firm to further grow the energy practice.”.Nitin is a graduate of the University of Lucknow. He started his career with Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) in its legal division as an Associate and thereafter moved to Trilegal, Delhi. He worked at Trilegal for almost four years before moving to BG Group India as Deputy Legal Counsel..Nitin has woked with the BG Group for almost seven years. In his last role at BG, Nitin was the Head of Legal for BG’s operations in Tanzania based in the UK. Whilst at BG, Nitin advised on a variety of complex Oil & Gas transactions involving multiple jurisdictions and across the entire Oil & Gas chain. Nitin has extensive experience on upstream, midstream (LNG) and downstream transactions..Jyoti Sagar, Founder Partner, JSA in a statement said “The JSA Partnership remains committed to creating a growing pool of leaders for tomorrow to whom the baton will pass. As a firm, we continue to build a sharing, merit-based, empowering, and nurturing institution. Nitin is thus a valuable addition at JSA and we warmly welcome him to the JSA family.”.JSA has, this year, boosted its Projects practice with the addition of Pallavi Bedi, former Senior Associate at Mayer Brown as a Partner and Siddharth Wahi, former Senior Associate at Baker & Mckenzie, as an Of Counsel. Both Pallavi and Siddharth are part of the firm’s Projects practice.