Mona Dajani Joins Baker Botts Energy Practice as Partner

Mona Dajani Joins Baker Botts Energy Practice as Partner

She was previously serving at Shearman & Sterling

Baker Botts L.L.P. has announced that prominent energy and infrastructure lawyer Mona Dajani has joined the firm as a Partner in New York. She will become Global Co-Chair of Energy Infrastructure and Hydrogen and Co-Chair of the firm’s Energy Sector.

Dajani’s global practice involves representation of some of the largest blue-chip clients worldwide. With over 20 years of practice, she has led numerous energy, sustainability, and infrastructure deals globally, including mergers and acquisitions, project development, financing, joint ventures, restructuring, tax equity, and tax credit financings involving energy and related infrastructure facilities.

The transactions led by her include solar, wind, hydrogen, hydroelectric, and geothermal, as well as ammonia, mobility, energy deals with data centers, electric vehicles, carbon capture and sequestration, renewable natural gas, biofuels, net-zero technology, and other energy transition projects.

Danny David, the Managing Partner at Baker Botts remarked, “Our firm is a market leader in the energy transition space, and Dajani is pre-eminent in this sector. Her strategic fit with our firm could not be more ideal. Her experience, including in the US, the Middle East, and Europe, spans the regions in which we operate around the globe. Her arrival will help us further expand our market-leading capabilities worldwide, and we are delighted to welcome her to the firm.”

Jason Bennett, the firmwide department Chair of Baker Botts’ Global Projects Practice and Co-Head of its firmwide energy sector leadership added, “Dajani is a superstar in the energy transition space, where Baker Botts is a leader. Her arrival highlights our commitment to support clients in the renewable energy space, and her leadership in energy transition will provide additional depth and excellence to support our clients in their most important investments in the future of energy.”

On her joining, Dajani remarked, “For over 100 years, Baker Botts has been the go-to law firm for the global energy industry, including the renewables and energy transition space. It’s a one-stop-shop for clients across the entire energy spectrum and provides a broad, market-leading platform for my practice. I am excited to join and further strengthen and expand its global presence in the sector, particularly with so many opportunities and challenges we are seeing for clients now. It is an ideal time for me to join Baker Botts, and I look forward to expanding the team and hitting the ground running to help clients pursue the global energy transition.”

Dajani has significant experience in syndicated loan and debt capital markets transactions, sustainable finance, ESG, water and transportation projects, and arranging capital for new and established energy and infrastructure companies.

She has represented a wide variety of commercial and public institutions, sponsors, utilities, financial institutions, underwriters, energy and clean technology companies, private equity funds, investment banks, and multilateral agencies in transactions throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Dajani was previously serving at Shearman & Sterling as a global head of renewables, global head of energy & infrastructure (projects), head of the hydrogen and ammonia practice (Americas), and co-head of the US energy team.