LUKOIL Overseas Service Ltd. (Moscow Representative Office)Chief Legal Counsel
Sep. 2004 - Aug. 2006Москва, Москва, РоссияLegal support of international oil & gas projects (Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Columbia, Egypt, Côte d’Ivoire, Syria, and Algeria): • Projects due diligence, analysis of host government agreements, bidding documents; drafting and negotiating of JSBAs, JOAs, farm-in/ farm-out agreements. • Legal support for regional offices. • Inter-group assets restructuring (Azerbaijan). • Supervising dispute resolution processes within various jurisdictions. Legal support for company’s oil & gas projects in Russia: • licensing issues, • real estate transactions, • land, forest and water use legal matters, • Legal issues related to hazardous production facilities, industrial construction and engineering.