Mona Dajani

GLOBAL CO-CHAIR OF ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE AND HYDROGEN, BAKER BOTTS

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Mona Dajani is the Global Co-chair of Energy, Infrastructure and Hydrogen at Baker Botts. Qualified as a lawyer in the United States, as a registered foreign lawyer in England, and a licensed professional engineer, she serves as a lead lawyer in complex mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and project development transactions involving energy and infrastructure facilities in the United States and around the world. She focuses her global practice on project finance, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sustainable finance, portfolio acquisitions, tax equity, and construction and/or restructuring for government and private clients involving energy and infrastructure projects. Formerly, Dajani lead or co-lead several energy-based groups for Shearman & Sterling LLP, a legal advisory firm to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and governmental organizations. She was previously the Global Leader of Shearman & Sterling’s Energy and Infrastructure Projects Team and also led the Renewable Energy practice, covering clean energy, clean energy technology, hydrogen, and sustainable finance.

In her over 25 years of practice, Dajani has led numerous financing and acquisition/disposition and project development transactions involving solar, wind, hydrogen, hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, waste-to-energy, and net-zero disruptive technology, such as connectivity, autonomous driving, and e-mobility, as well as gasification, transmission lines, and oil and gas pipelines. She has extensive experience with respect to syndicated loan and debt capital markets transactions; sustainable finance; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and analysis; syndicated commercial bank debt; commercial paper programs; and the arrangement of 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 has received numerous honors and awards, including some of the following most recent acknowledgements. She has been recognized by The Legal 500 United States as a leading lawyer for Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power (Industry Focus) and Project Finance (2022), as well as by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer for Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy (2022). She has been on the A Word About Wind Legal Power List three times (2022, 2020, and 2018) and featured as a “Power Player” in Financier Worldwide’s Distinguished Advisors Project Finance & Infrastructure special profile (2021). Dajani won Law360’s MVP award in Project Finance for two consecutive years (2021 and 2020) and has been recognized as an Environment+Energy Leader 100 (2020). 

Dajani has been honored as a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Chartered Construction Lawyers Society of America, The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500, IFLR1000, Rising Legal Stars, and other publications. She serves on the Board of Directors for the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and ABANA, the preeminent U.S. organization for finance professionals and institutions with interest in the Middle East and North Africa. Dajani holds a Juris Doctor from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, a Master of Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas, and a Bachelor’s in Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.