Els Reynaers is a Partner at M.V. Kini & Co. and heads the firm’s Environment practice; and is specialized in environmental law and nuclear law.
She has law degrees from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (magna cum laude), and the University of Delhi, India. She completed an LL.M. degree at the University of Georgia, U.S.A, which included a thesis on the regulation of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes.
Before moving to India, she worked as a lawyer on environment and energy-related issues at Allen & Overy, Brussels and at Giordano & Associates, Chicago, USA.
Prior to obtaining her Indian law degree Els headed the Centre for Global Agreements, Legislation and Trade at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She worked closely with the Government of India on its WTO trade and environment negotiations.
Els is widely published. She has recently written on India’s civil nuclear liability regime (“India’s Nuclear Trade – Inching Forward?” in Key Developments in Environmental Law 2014, Canada Law Book) and published a monograph on the status of the precautionary principle.
Els serves as the General Secretary of the Nuclear Law Association of India, which she helped co-found, was the President (2015-2016) of the International Nuclear Law Association, and is Senior Vice Chair of the IBA’s Environment, Health and Safety Law Committee (2017-2018). She is regularly recognized as a leading environmental lawyer in India by the Who’s Who Legal: Environment edition, including in 2018.
M.V. Kini & Co., which was established 30 years ago, currently counts about 150 lawyers. M.V. Kini is a ‘full service’ law firm and its practice areas range from corporate and commercial law, banking law, infrastructure law, to labour law, environmental law, aviation law, litigation and arbitration. With our three offices in Mumbai (including our head office), and about ten branches throughout India (including in in Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Lucknow, Goa and Calcutta), we are able to provide India-wide services to our clients.
