Bio

Kunal Kapoor has over 19 years of experience advising clients on conventional and renewable energy, and leads our non-contentious energy/ energy transition projects’ offering, in Singapore. His practice covers project development and finance, procurement and marketing/ trading, complex structured finance, and acquisitions and disposals of energy assets within the oil & gas (LNG), renewables, and transport infrastructure sectors. He has significant specialist experience in upstream and energy assets’ investments and divestments (and connected financing) and LNG procurement, regasification, terminal use, bunkering, and gas to power work. Kunal’s recent focus has included transactions in the wind, carbon/nature and non-nature based solutions’ space, and advisory work in the rapidly evolving CCS, hydrogen and ammonia sectors. Kunal has, for many years, been widely recognised for both his energy and projects sector expertise by legal directories Chambers Asia Pacific and Chambers Global (band 3 – Energy, foreign firms), Legal 500 (currently Recommend Lawyer, and previously Next Generation Partner for Energy & Projects, foreign firms), and IFLR 1000 (Highly Regarded in Project Development & Finance for energy). In 2023, Chambers Asia Pacific described him as having “strong expertise in production sharing contracts and LNG supply agreements” and further reported clients as saying that “Kunal is talented, insightful and very clever, and fully understands what the client needs”, and “Oil and gas and LNG specialist Kunal Kapoor has an impressive record in the region.” Legal 500 reported clients as saying that “Kunal Kapoor is an intelligent stand-out partner whom we work with on a host of international energy transactions and projects” and “Kunal is an excellent lawyer, leader and draftsman with a very collaborative style of negotiation, which ensures that complicated deals get across the line on time. He manages to distill complex problems in an easy to understand manner for the lay man, and we value that as clients. We see him both as a valued advisor and a business partner who is extremely involved to safeguard our best interests”.