Norman Nadorff, Special Counsel, Mayer Brown
Norman Nadorff is located in Houston and works extensively with the Rio de Janeiro office. He helps clients with energy law and transactions and ethics law compliance.
For 30 years, Norman served as in-house counsel for major oil companies with primary focus on Latin America, West Africa and Indonesia. He was Senior Counsel for BP in Angola from 2006 to 2015 as well as Legal Manager for BP Brazil, ARCO Indonesia and BP Solar. Due to is extensive expatriate and other international experience, Norman finds practical solutions to thorny legal issues facing energy clients.
Norman has drafted and negotiated a wide range of commercial contracts and transactions, including host government granting instruments (PSAs etc.), confidentiality, farmout, sale and purchase, JOAs, unitization, joint study and bidding, EPC, lifting, drilling, wellsite services, shareholders, office fit-out, gas sales and LNG project structure. He also frequently supports litigation teams through his analysis of energy law contract clauses, conduct, and correspondence under dispute.
At ARCO, Norman wrote the Company’s policies on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, US Anti-boycott laws and US Export Regulations. He has participated in corruption, fraud, conflict of interest and hostage-taking investigations and helped resolved various commercial disputes.
Norman has been Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center since 2012 and has taught International Petroleum Agreements in several US and foreign law schools. In 2006, he played key roles in the creation of a pioneering international oil and gas master’s program at Angola’s national law school where he still teaches annually. Norman lectures frequently on petroleum law, anti-corruption laws, contract drafting and negotiations, and development of local talent.
Norman is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, proficient in French, and has experience negotiating in all three languages.
Ricardo Silva, Partner, Miranda Law Firm (remote)
Ricardo has over 15 years of experience.
His practice is focused on Administrative & Public law, Corporate, Energy & Natural Resources including Oil & Gas, Foreign Investment and White Collar Crime.