Dewey & LeBoeuf

Jonathan H. Hines

Partner

Mr. Hines has been involved over the past 20 years in investment transactions and related counseling of clients - featuring large-scale oil & gas development projects and M&A transactions in Russia, Kazakhstan and the other CIS republics - as well as other industrial ventures in this region. He also regularly gives consultations (to private and state-owned corporate clients, and to government agencies) in connection with the development and application of the Russian and other CIS republic legal regimes in the energy and general foreign investment sectors, has published and spoken widely and is a recognized authority in these fields.

He has also assisted clients in connection with a number of Russia-related arbitration proceedings in Moscow, Stockholm, London and Paris - and is serving his second five-year appointed term on the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Representative Matters

For Eni S.p.A. of Italy, the $5.8 billion acquisition of a package of substantial Russian (ex-Yukos) oil & gas E&P assets at auction in April 2007, and the follow-on $4.2 billion sale of one of these assets (a 20 percent stake in the Russian oil major Gazpromneft) to Gazprom in April 2009;
For StatoilHydro of Norway, assistance on the major Shtokman offshore gas field development and LNG project, together with Gazprom and Total, in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea;
For ONGC Videsh of India and Mittal Investments (by their JV vehicle OMEL), current assistance on their pending major investment with KazMunayGas into development of the Satpaev E&P block in Kazakhstan's Caspian offshore zone;
For ExxonMobil, work on several aspects of the $15 billion offshore Russian Far East Sakhalin 1 PSA project, from PSA negotiation in 1993 to date;
For CNPC of China; negotiation of a PSA for development of large new gas reserves in the Amu Darya Basin onshore Turkmenistan, with planned gas pipeline from there through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to China; also assistance on planned Skovorodino-Daqing interconnector to China from the pending new Siberia - Far East crude oil trunk pipeline;
For TNK-BP, assistance on proposed upstream new projects in Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan;
For shareholder Eni and the former operator Agip KCO, advice on various aspects of development and the recent successful renegotiation of the Kashagan mega oil & gas field complex in Kazakhstan's Caspian offshore zone, with total investment expected to be over $125 billion; and ongoing work for NCOC, the current multi-company project operator;
For ExxonMobil, assistance on various aspects of the Tenghizchevroil mega-field oil development project in Kazakhstan, including the $4.4 billion Stage Two expansion project financing;
Assistance to six different international energy companies on proposed (one of them executed) PSA projects for Caspian offshore Turkmenistan sector blocks; and advice on onshore risk service contracts there for two other foreign companies;
Work for the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), owner-operator of the successfully-operating 1,500 km crude oil line running from northwestern Kazakhstan to the Russian Black Sea coast; and
Advice to European major participating in Iraq's first licensing round for service contract in 2009.

Professional Associations

American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, Board of Directors (2000-present)
Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) (2001-present)
Kazakhstan Petroleum Lawyers Association, Board of Directors (2002-present)
International Bar Association, member of Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (and regular contributor to its journal)
American Bar Association, Co-Chair of Newly Independent States Committee, Section of International Law and Practice (1995-99)

Publications

"Turkmenistan's New Petroleum Law: A Primer for Foreign Investors," AIPN Advisor (December 2008)
"Foreign Investment Restrictions in Russia's Strategic Sectors: Focus on Mineral Resources," AIPN Advisor (May 2008)
"Kazakhstan Further Stiffens Its Mineral Development Regime — New Controls for Strategic Fields and Pipelines," AIPN Advisor (November 2007)
"Turkmenistan's Oil & Gas Sector: Overview of the Legal Regime for Foreign Investment," Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, Vol. 24, No. 4, November 2006
"Further Amendments to Kazakhstan's Subsoil Development Project Regime: State Pre-emption Right and Other Matters," AIPN Advisor (December 2005)
"Kazakhstan Enacts PSA Law: Summary Analysis of Its Terms," AIPN Advisor (July 2005)
"Tail Whacks Dog: Few PSAs Can Go Forward in Russia," AIPN Advisor (September 2003)

Awards and Recognition

Band 1 Energy & Natural Resources Lawyer in Russia, Chambers Global (2002-2009)
Leading Energy Lawyer in Russia, PLC Which Lawyer? (formerly Global Counsel 3000) (2003-2009)
Band 1 Overseas Specialist in Kazakhstan, Chambers Global (2006-2009), and Band 1 Energy Lawyer in Kazakhstan, Chambers Global (2002-2005)
Leading Lawyer in Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resource Lawyers (2008-2009)
Global Leader in Oil & Gas in Russia/CIS in International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (2006-2009)

Other Activities

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law (2001-present)
Member, Advisory Board, Russian Petroleum Investor (2000-present)
Member, Advisory Board, Russia/Eurasia Executive Guide (2000-present)
Speaker and/or co-chairman at several international conferences - on oil & gas industry and general investment matters - in Russia, Central Asia, Western Europe, Japan, China and India, 1990 to date

Education

Princeton University, 1974, B.A., Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, and Russian Studies, with distinction
University of Virginia School of Law, 1978, J.D., with distinction
Moscow State University, Russia, 1979-1980, exchange scholar at Civil Law Department