Professor Norman Nadorff works as a Special Counsel for Mayer Brown’s Houston office and works extensively with the Rio de Janeiro office. His practice centers on energy law and transactions and ethics law compliance.
For 30 years, Professor Nadorff 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 and ARCO Indonesia, where he held two expatriate assignments in the 1990’s. Due to this extensive expatriate experience, he is adept at finding practical solutions to thorny legal issues facing foreign subsidiaries and in developing national legal departments.
Professor Nadorff has dealt with a wide range of commercial contracts, including farmout, unitization, joint operating, study and bidding, EPC, drilling and wellsite services, gas sales, shareholder, joint venture, and project finance agreements, as well as a wide variety of host government granting instruments.
Professor Nadorff 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. He lectures frequently in law schools and privately on petroleum law, anti-corruption laws, contract drafting and negotiations, and development of local talent.
Professor Nadorff is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.