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Senior Partner

Rajiv
Srivastava

25+ years in practice

A quarter-century across civil, commercial, banking and insurance law, consumer protection, and regulatory and infrastructure law — with a specialised focus on electricity law and appearances in several of the sector’s landmark cases.

Portrait of Rajiv Srivastava
  • DesignationSenior Partner, Incept Legal
  • ExperienceOver 25 years in practice
  • FocusElectricity, regulatory and infrastructure laws
  • DistinctionGold medallist and Chancellor’s medallist in LL.B.
  • Previously23 years as a banker with a large public sector bank
  • Contactinfo@inceptlegal.com
    +91 98714 31988

Rajiv is the Senior Partner of Incept Legal. He has over twenty-five years’ practice in civil, commercial, banking and insurance laws, consumer protection laws, and regulatory and infrastructure laws, with a specialised focus on electricity laws.

He appears regularly before the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts, tribunals and commissions.

Electricity and energy regulation

Rajiv specialises in regulatory laws practice in the power and energy sector. He has appeared in landmark cases before the Supreme Court of India and the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, including:

  • Energy Watchdog v. Central Electricity Regulatory Commission & Ors.
  • Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. v. Sasan Power Ltd. & Ors.
  • Sasan Power Ltd. v. Central Electricity Regulatory Commission & Ors.

Panel appointments

Rajiv is panel counsel for Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd., the Uttar Pradesh State Load Despatch Centre (UPSLDC), Uttar Pradesh Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. (UPPTCL) and other entities including the Indian Ordnance Factories, representing them before the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission in landmark cases in the field of electricity law.

Background

Rajiv is a gold medallist and Chancellor’s medallist in LL.B. Before coming to the bar he spent twenty-three years as a banker with a large public sector bank — experience that continues to inform his banking, insurance and infrastructure practice.

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Supreme Court of India Delhi High Court APTEL CERC UPERC Tribunals & commissions

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