White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Jennifer Josefson

Practice Experience

Jennifer heads White & Case's CEE/CIS oil and gas group. She specializes in transactions in the energy and natural resources sector, regularly advising on M&A and joint venture arrangements, joint operating agreements (JOAs), PSA matters, concessions, energy projects, and international arbitration in the subsoil and energy sectors. She is ranked as one of the top energy and natural resource lawyers in Russia by Chambers Global, PLC Which Lawyer, and the Who's Who of International Oil and Gas Lawyers. Jennifer is a board member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and was the first regional director of AIPN's CIS Chapter, from 2005 to 2008.

Her recent experience includes representing:

A leading international E&P company on an asset swap with Gazprom in respect to the Yuzhno-Russkoye natural gas field in Western Siberia;
TNK-BP on the establishment of a gas-to-power joint venture with OGK-1, the largest wholesale thermal power generation company in Russia, for the construction of a new power unit at Nizhnevartovskaya Thermal Power Plant in Western Siberia;
Export credit agencies, multi-lateral lenders and commercial bank lenders in connection with the $20 billion project financing of the Sakhalin II (Phase 2) LNG Project in Russia;
Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) on its joint venture with Rosneft for the exploration and development of the West Kamchatka offshore field;
Tyumen Oil Company (TNK) and its shareholders on certain aspects of a joint-venture alliance with British Petroleum (BP);
Hess Corporation on acquisitions in the Russian oil & gas sector in Russia's Volga-Urals region;
M-I SWACO, a Smith International and Schlumberger company specializing in drilling fluids and solids control/waste management equipment and services, in its acquisitions of two Russian drilling fluid and solids control companies and its business activities in Russia; and
A large Russian oil company in regards to various joint venture issues including joint operations agreements and exclusive operations and in regards to a drilling contract in Kazakhstan.

Before moving to Moscow and joining White & Case in 2002, Jennifer worked in a large U.S. law firm in Houston, Texas.

Bars and Courts
Texas State Bar, 1999

Education
LLM, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Science, 1998
BA, Baylor University, 1995
JD, University of Texas School of Law, 1998

Professional Associations and Memberships
Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN); Board of Directors 2004-2008; CIS Regional Director 2005-2008; co-chair of the AIPN International Conference, Moscow, Russia, 2005.
Member of the Texas Bar Association

Publications
"Foreign Investment in Russian Oil and Gas: Will 2008 Bring New Restrictions?" in the Q1 2008 issue of Bloomberg Law Review and in World Finance Review, October 2008 (co-author)
"Policy Challenges: Russian Perspective" in Energy Futures, edited by Ralf Boscheck, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
"The new joint venture and the subsoil law," Neftegaz, September 2002 (in Russian)
"Year 2001 Changes to the Taxation of Corporations Under the Russian Tax Code," International Business Lawyer, Vol. 31, January 2002
"Knowing How: Protection of Foreign Investor's Intellectual Property in the Russian Federation," Texas Transnational Law Quarterly, Vol. 15, April 2001, No. 2

Languages
English
Russian

Citizenship
United States