Jon Hines represents private and state-owned companies in major transactions, including project development, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions in Russia and other former Soviet republics. Jon focuses primarily on large-scale oil and gas projects, including liquefied natural gas deals, as well as mining development and other industrial ventures. He advises on such transactions—including related financings—in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and the other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and assists major Russian companies in their projects worldwide.
Jon also has experience in arbitration proceedings related to Russia/CIS transactions in Moscow, Stockholm, London, and Paris. He also regularly advises clients on the application of US and EU sanctions on projects and other commercial dealings relating to Russia. Jon is currently serving his third five-year appointed term on the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Commercial Arbitration Court (ICAC) at the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and was recently elected to ICAC’s governing Presidium. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, he was a partner in the energy transactions practice of another international law firm.
He is fluent in Russian and is conversant in French, German, Danish, and Norwegian.
