They’ve Got Next: Energy Fresh Face Arjun Prasad Ramadevanahalli

When a major cyberattack hit the Colonial Pipeline last year, gasoline supplies were disrupted for days, prompting panic among East Coast consumers. Federal regulators scrambled to issue emergency mandatory cybersecurity standards on critical pipeline operators to protect their systems.

Amid the chaos, Arjun Prasad Ramadevanahalli was cool and collected—and not surprised.

“It almost felt like it was an inevitability and only a matter of time before this happened, unfortunately,” he said.

Ramadevanahalli, a 36-year-old associate for Morgan Lewis’ Washington, D.C., office, has focused his practice on the complicated question of how energy companies navigate the rapidly evolving world of cybersecurity—and ...