JOHN P. COGAN, JR.
John Cogan has been engaged for over fifty years in providing legal services to the international energy, shipping and import/export industries. Among other activities, he has served as lead counsel on numerous LNG development projects, mergers & acquisitions, and oil industry maritime matters. He has also served as an arbitrator and expert witness in the resolution of disputes related to such matters. His practice spans the globe, with engagements relating to North America, Latin America, East Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Mr. Cogan's work includes developing project structures, drafting and negotiating joint venture, acquisition, joint operating, management, processing, services, transportation (pipeline and marine), development and investment agreements; production sharing, drilling, construction, O&M and other energy industry contracts; oil & gas tanker charterparties and shipbuilding contracts; project finance documentation; and technology licenses. He also has been involved with governmental regulation of the foregoing.
HONORS & AWARDS
Mr. Cogan has been named as one of the world's leading energy and natural resource lawyers by Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers and the International Financial Law Review 1000, and as one of the top five international lawyers in Texas by Texas Lawyer. He also has been recognized by Super Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America and Law Dragon as a leading energy and corporate attorney. He is a recipient of a Japanese Imperial Decoration, “The Order of the Sacred Treasure” and a winner of the Eastman Arbitration Library Essay Award from the American Arbitration Association.
PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Mr. Cogan has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Houston as well as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas School of Law and Southern Methodist University. He has also served as President of the Houston World Trade Association; director of The Asia Society, Texas Center; a member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the International Business Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership, the Houston Council of Foreign Relations and the Association of International Energy Negotiators (formerly AIPN); Council Member, International Law Section, State Bar of Texas; and a corresponding editor, International Legal Materials, published by The American Society of International Law. He was a founder of The Regis School and the St. Anne School Foundation.
EDUCATION
Mr. Cogan received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1968 and his B.A., cum laude with special honors in economics, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965. He also spent brief periods of time enrolled as an exchange student at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Guanajuato (Mexico) and the University of Nantes (France).
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