Jennifer A. Josefson

Jennifer contributes to the development of international contracting standards for the energy industry through her work with the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN). She currently presides as AIEN’s immediate past president (having served as president in 2021–2022, leading the name change from the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and expansion of the association’s energy scope). In past years she also served on AIEN’s board of directors, was a founding regional director of AIEN’s FSU/CIS Chapter, and was a co-chair of the AIEN 2019 Model Farmout Agreement Revision. As a standing faculty member for more than 10 years, Jennifer regularly conducts AIEN’s international oil and gas contracting training courses—the Short Course and the Core Course.

Consistently recognized as a top energy and natural resources lawyer, Jennifer is ranked in Tier 1 by both Chambers Global and Chambers Europe. Jennifer is also recognized by IFLR1000 and Who’s Who of International Energy Lawyers.

Jennifer is fluent in English and Russian. 

Upstream Oil & Gas

• An international service company on its acquisition of an interest in a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
• A Middle Eastern state company on the structuring and negotiation of a Russian oil and gas joint venture
• An Indian state oil company on its acquisition of a 50% stake in an upstream oil project
• A state oil company on its evaluation and submission of a bid for upstream acreage in the 2018 ADNOC Bid Round
• An independent oil company with respect to its production sharing agreement (PSA) in South Sudan
• An oil and gas company on its decommissioning obligations
• A large international oilfield service and engineering company on an engineering service joint venture
• A large international oil on structuring and negotiating its risk-sharing arrangements for the development of mature oil fields
• 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
• 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
• A foreign investor in the potential acquisition of a Turkmenistan PSA
• An independent oil company with respect to its PSAs in Kurdistan
• An independent oil company on three farm-out arrangements in Egypt

Downstream Oil & Gas / LNG

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

Power and Renewables

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

Metals and Mining

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