Bio

Irina Akentjeva is a Partner in the firm's corporate practice with a focus on energy and infrastructure transactions. Irina is a highly experienced energy lawyer, advising clients on transactions across the Asia region and globally. She has been based in Singapore since 2010. Irina's practice covers major cross-border acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and project development transactions in a number of sectors, including oil and gas (including LNG), power, infrastructure, mining and refining. Irina's work for energy sector clients, including a secondment to a Singapore trading desk of one of the oil and gas majors, means that she is extremely familiar with the sector specific issues of concern to clients, both in M&A transactions as well as in project development and commodity trading transactions. Highly regarded by clients and market peers, Irina has been named Young Lawyer of the Year (Law Firm) at the Asian Legal Business SE Asia Law Awards 2020.