Anna Nerush

Practice Areas

Anna is a commercial and corporate lawyer with over 18 years of experience in the oil and gas sector. She advises IOCs, NOCs, funds and trading houses on cross-border transactions and projects in the E&P, refining and trading sectors in the MEA region.

Anna’s practice is broadly split between:

• corporate advisory including joint ventures (incorporated and unincorporated (JOAs)), corporate and asset acquisitions and divestments, structuring (and restructuring) of equity and hybrid investments, including offtake and pre-pay arrangements;

• offshore E&P developments, including engagement with host governments, negotiation of production sharing contracts (PSCs), JV structuring, crude/gas lifting, sales and transportation, providing full project cycle commercial support through to final investment decision (FID) and beyond; and

• sale, supply and offtake contracts for crude, natural gas, refined products and other natural resources (e.g metals); LNG MSPAs and long term supply arrangements.

Anna is known for her professionalism and commitment to providing the best possible commercially driven advice to her clients.

Anna’s clients say:

"She understands the industry and gets it every time. She is super focused and pragmatic."

"Anna is an oil and gas lawyer through and through."

Chambers and Partners 2024

Anna is a contributing author to the “Oil & Gas Contracts Principles and Practice”, Sweet & Maxwell, 3rd Edition 2022 on the subject of Acquisitions and Divestments in the Upstream Sector”.

Experience

• Advising an independent oil & gas company on all matters relating to the development of an integrated deep water gas project offshore Myanmar, including full pre-FEED commercial contractual framework and negotiation of the supply, pipeline transportation and sale of gas to Thailand as well as renegotiation of the existing PSC.

• Advising a Middle East NOC on the drafting of its model form exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA) and, subsequently, on the negotiation of an EPSA covering a large offshore block with a European oil major.

• Advising a commodities trader on its negotiations of Petroleum Agreement with the government of Ghana and GNPC.

• Advising a commodities trader on its proposed acquisition of a participating interest offshore Cote d’Ivoire.

• Advising an independent oil & gas company in connection with withdrawal of several European majors from Myanmar across multiple blocks and related transfer of participating interests and operatorship.