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Projects: LNG (Band 1)Profile
Practice Areas:
Focuses on international energy, financial, shipping and commercial transactions, particularly involving projects for international exploration, extraction, processing, transportation and sale of natural resources. Served as lead counsel on numerous LNG and pipeline development projects, upstream and refinery acquisitions, oil industry maritime matters.
Professional Memberships:
Advisory Director, Institute for Energy Law; Director, Asia Society, Texas Center; Advisory Director, Institute for International & Comparative Law; Director, Institute of International Education, Southern Region; Member of Association of International Petroleum Negotiators; Corresponding Editor, American Society of International Law, 'International Legal Materials'.
Career:
Founding Partner, Cogan & Partners LLP; 40 years experience.
Publications:
Project Financing of Cross-Border Pipelines, in 'Energy & Environmental Project Finance', Oxford University Press (2010); LNG Sales and Shipping: The Evolution of Delivery Terms from the Empirical to the Existential, in 'Texas Journal of Oil, Gas and Energy Law' (2007); Contracting Practices Evolve for New Global LNG Trade, 'LNG Observer' (2005).
Personal:
BA, 1965, JD, 1968, University of Texas; attended Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Derecho Comparativo, 1967; Universite de Nantes, France, 1964.