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About

Mansoor joined the bar in 1995. He started legal practice with the chamber of Senior Advocate at Supreme Court of India before joining a Tier 1 law firm, where he reached the level of Equity Partner.

Mansoor’s focus area is regulatory and disputes within Energy, Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT), Aviation and Infrastructure sectors. He has extensively advises power and telecom companies on diverse policy, regulatory and legal issues. Within regulatory & policy, he advises clients on entire spectrum of tariff, licensing, regulations, and competition issues. He also advises on data protection & privacy laws.

Mansoor also specializes in commercial, civil, regulatory and constitutional dispute resolution in diverse fora including the Supreme Court of India, High Courts of various states, District Courts, Arbitral Tribunals, Conciliation Boards and other ADR mechanisms. Mansoor regularly appears before Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL), State Electricity Regulatory Commissions, Competition Commission of India (CCI), Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat), National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) et al

Mansoor has also worked with an International Law Firm in London where his focus was competition law. Mansoor was instrumental in establishing the competition practice and telecom practice in his earlier law firm. JSA. Mansoor has worked in India and UK

Work Experience

  • Mansoor was previously Equity Partner, Regulatory & Policy Team, at J. Sagar Associates (JSA), Delhi where he worked for almost 18 years. Prior to JSA, he worked at the chamber of a Senior Advocate at Supreme Court of India.

Education/Courses

  • EIPA Data Protection Course (2017), European Institute of Public administration, Maastricht (Netherlands)
  • Programme on ‘Project Finance (2005), by World Bank Institute Ahmedabad (India).
  • Diploma in Cyber Laws (2002), Amity Law School, Delhi (India)
  • LL.B. (1995), University of Delhi (India)
  • BSc (1992), Jammu University (India)

Languages

  • English, Hindi, Kashmiri and Urdu

Expertise

  • Practice Areas
  • Regulatory & Policy
  • Disputes: Litigation | Arbitration
  • Privacy & Data Protection
  • Contract Management & Legal Advisory
  • Compliance, Investigation & Crisis Management
  • Sectors
  • Telecommunications
  • Energy
  • Aviation
  • Competition
  • Infrastructure laws