Jennifer A. Josefson

Representing clients across the spectrum of energy industries, Jennifer regularly advises on acquisitions and divestitures, mergers, joint ventures, joint operating agreements, concessions, production sharing agreements, farm-ins, supply, and service agreements. She also handles the commercial agreements regularly used by energy companies for revenue generation, raw materials and feedstock inputs, financing, and facilities operations and maintenance.

Jennifer contributes to the development of international oil and gas contracting standards through her work with the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN). She has been a member of the AIPN Board of Directors and served as co-chair of the AIPN 2019 Model Farmout Agreement Revision. She also has held numerous other positions with the organization, including as founding regional director of the CIS Chapter. Jennifer is a standing faculty member for AIPN’s international oil and gas contracting training courses—the Short Course and the Core Course.

Consistently recognized as a top energy and natural resource lawyer, Jennifer has been is ranked a Tier 1 Energy lawyer by both Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, and she has been consecutively named Lawyer of the Year – Russia for oil & gas, energy, mining, and natural resources by Best Lawyers. She also has been recognized by IFLR1000 and Who’s Who of International Energy Lawyers.

Jennifer, who is fluent in English and Russian, joined Morgan Lewis from another global law firm.

Upstream Oil & Gas

• Represented a Russian oil company on its acquisition of an interest in Russian upstream acreage and the related joint venture
• Represented an international service company on its acquisition of an interest in a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
• Represented a Middle Eastern state company on the structuring and negotiation of a Russian oil and gas joint venture
• Represented an Indian state oil company on its acquisition of 50% stake in Russian upstream oil project
• Represented a state oil company on its evaluation and submission of a bid for upstream acreage in the 2018 ADNOC Bid Round
• Represented an independent oil company with respect to its production sharing agreement (PSA) in South Sudan
• Represented an oil and gas company on its decommissioning obligations
• Represented a large international oilfield service and engineering company on an engineering service joint venture
• Represented a large international oil on structuring and negotiating its risk-sharing arrangements for the development of mature oil fields
• Represented an international oil field service company specializing in drilling fluids and solids control/waste management equipment and services, on its acquisitions of Russian drilling fluid and solids control companies and its business activities in Russia
• Represented a large Russian oil company operating in Kazakhstan with respect to various joint venture issues including joint operations and exclusive operations agreements and drilling contracts
• Represented a foreign investor in the potential acquisition of a Turkmenistan PSA
• Represented an independent oil company with respect to its PSAs in Kurdistan
• Represented an independent oil company on three farm-out arrangements in Egypt

Downstream Oil & Gas / LNG

• Represented Russia’s largest integrated gas processing and petrochemicals company, on the sale of a transshipment terminal and related commercial agreements
• Represented a Russian state oil company on the purchase of 100% of shares of a large Russian refinery
• Represented a Chinese oil company with respect to the structuring and due diligence of a potential Russian upstream and LNG joint venture
• Represented the trading segment of a large Russian investment bank on back-to-back crude and product sales agreements.

Metals and Mining

• Represented a Russian mining and metals company on its sale and joint venture with a Chinese state controlled company for a Russian coal development
• Represented a Russian company on a 50/50 quartz mining joint venture in Russia
• Represented an Indian holding company on the acquisition of a Russian abrasive factory
• Represented the trading segment of a large Russian investment bank on back-to-back metals sales agreements
• Represented an international mining equipment company on its contractual arrangements in Russia

Power

• Represented an oil and gas company on the establishment of a gas-to-power joint venture for the construction of a new power unit
• Represented a Russian power company on it conventional power joint venture
• Represented a Middle Eastern investor on review and structuring of a Russian solar power project