Bio

Jennifer Josefson has worked with companies across the energy, infrastructure, and natural resources sector on their international and cross-border transactions and projects in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa for more than 25 years. She regularly advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, joint operating agreements, power purchase agreements, concessions, production sharing agreements, farm-ins, supply agreements, and service agreements. Jennifer also handles the commercial agreements regularly used by energy companies for revenue generation, raw materials and feedstock inputs, and facilities operations and maintenance. Jennifer is admitted to practice in England & Wales. Jennifer helps lead the development of international contracting standards for the energy industry through her work with the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN). She served as AIEN’s president from 2021 to 2022, leading both its name change from the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) to AEIN and the expansion of AIEN’s energy scope. She also previously 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 AEIN 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. A member of the firm’s energy industry team, Jennifer is also active in the Hydrogen Working Group and is a co-leader of the International Energy and Projects Working Group. She is fluent in English and Russian.