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Dalia Majumder-Russell
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Dalia Majumder-Russell

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  • Ukrainian
  • Russian
  • French
  • Bengali
  • English
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Dalia Majumder-Russell is a partner in the Energy & Climate Change Team specialising in complex process power and low carbon projects. She is passionate about the decarbonisation agenda across the energy, heat and transport sectors, and for the last 10 years has focused on carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen technologies, as well as PPAs as a way of helping clients in their energy transition journeys. She regularly advises developers, investors, funders, governments and contractors across Europe, Africa and North America on a wide range of M&A transactions, project financings, commercial agreements, and the regulatory frameworks within which such projects operate, and across the project lifecycle.

With more than 450 energy and climate change lawyers, including over 100 partners, the CMS Energy and Climate Change practice is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Led from its centres of excellence such as London and Aberdeen, the practice works across 75 offices globally. Building on 40 years of experience advising on power, oil & gas and renewables through to energy disputes, emerging areas and Energy Transition, CMS is uniquely placed to ensure clients receive advice best suited to their commercial needs and to our collective future.

Awards & Recognitions
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  • Quote
    "Dalia Majumder-Russell and Stella Mavrommati are simply outstanding. I've come to rely on their legal and industry knowledge, as well as their close collaboration and project management skills, to help me juggle a heavy and evolving workload. They are highly skilled and knowledgeable advisors and negotiators and are indispensable members of our extended legal team."
    Legal 500, 2026
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    "Dalia Majumder-Russell stands out as a subject-matter expert and skilled negotiator."
    Legal 500, 2025

Relevant experience

Decarbonised electricity

  • Sponsors on hydrogen projects including in the transport, gas networks, renewables, and water sectors, working on projects in the UK (HAR1 and HAR2), Europe and the Middle East. Member of government and industry groups focused on development of hydrogen projects.
  • Many pioneering corporate PPAs enabling the equity and debt financing of such projects.
  • Lenders or sponsors on the M&A and financings of onshore/offshore and floating wind farms across the UK, Europe and N America.
  • Various solar PV clients on solar projects on matters ranging from regulatory advice to corporate PPAs and other offtake arrangements, M&A and financings of complex portfolios to litigation matters. 

Decarbonised transport

  • On development of hydrogen fuelled transport in the UK including on e-fuels, SAFs and hydrogen derivatives.
  • Various clients on their commercial arrangements and investments into the electrical vehicles (“EV”) sector. 

Decarbonised and Renewable heat

  • Sponsors and lenders on various heat generation facilities, biomass CHP, district heating and subsidised heat decarbonisation schemes. 
  • On policy for hydrogen fuelled heating in the UK.

Memberships & Roles

  • Law Society of England & Wales

Education

  • 2009 - Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, UK.
  • 2008 - Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School, UK.
  • 2005 - BScH Biology; second major English, Acadia University, Canada.

Insights by Dalia

The UK moves closer to merchant CCUS models: non‑pipeline transport of carbon dioxide

16 Feb 2026 12 min read

Regulating heat networks: A new era

11 Feb 2026 10 min read

Fuel for thought: SAF revenue contracts and certainty mechanisms

03 Feb 2026 9 min read

Office of Gas and Electricity Markets

15 Jan 2026 3 min read
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