Concentration

Summary

Mr. Miles has worked on over 100 major LNG transactions worldwide, including having assisted clients in launching such leading-edge projects as the first LNG project in South America, the first LNG project to export LNG to the West Coast of North America, the first floating regasification terminal, and the first LNG imports into new terminals in Brazil, China, India, the U.S. and several other countries. He is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the 200 member LNG Committee of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), which is in the process of drafting model form agreements for LNG Master Sales Agreements.

He is listed in the Chambers USA Guide America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2005 through 2009, and in The Best Lawyers in America, 2007 through 2010, as well as in ^PLC Which Lawyer?, Super Lawyers and Cross-Border Finance Handbook . He has been selected six times as one of the leading project finance attorneys worldwide by the editors of the International Financial Law Review.

Representative Engagements

• Brass LNG Ltd. – development of a two-train LNG project in Nigeria, including LNG sale and purchase agreements (SPAs), gas supply agreements (GSAs), engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, technology licensing agreements, shipbuilding contracts and time charter agreements (TCAs) for LNG shipping; project sponsors include NNPC, Total, ConocoPhillips and ENI
• Petrobras – SPAs and master sales agreements (MSAs) for the first purchase and import of LNG into Brazil, including chartering of floating storage and receiving vessels
• Petronet LNG Ltd. – development and expansion of two LNG receiving terminals, including SPAs, EPC contracts and TCAs and ancillary agreements for LNG shipping
• Citigroup – Credit support for potential purchaser of LNG from LNG project in Africa
• Merrill Lynch Commodities – Singapore LNG project
• Merrill Lynch Commodities – development of potential LNG project in Jamaica
• Various Financial Institutions – development of LNG trading models
• Sempra – development of a model LNG master sales agreement for spot and short-term LNG purchases and sales
• BP – LNG terminal service agreement (TSA) for regasification of LNG in the United States
• BP – SPA for sale of LNG from Tangguh, Indonesia, to Sempra Energy for delivery to Baja California, Mexico and TCA for LNG shipping
• BP – SPA for the sale of LNG from Tangguh, Indonesia, to the People's Republic of China
• BP – marine services agreement for an LNG receiving terminal in Baja California, Mexico
• BP – MSA for LNG sales to North America
• U.S. Energy Company – long-term purchase of LNG from Qatar Gas and development of U.S. receiving terminal facilities
• Apache Corp. – development of LNG project in Australia
• Hunt Oil Co. – development of Camisea, Peru, LNG project, including SPA, port use agreement, and marine services agreement
• Marathon Oil Corp. – development of an LNG, natural gas liquids and condensate project in Equatorial Guinea
• Marathon Oil Corp. – long-term and spot purchases of LNG for delivery to Elba Island, Georgia
• Jordan Cove Energy Project LLP – development of an LNG receiving facility and negotiation of TSAs
• Global power company – development of an LNG receiving facility, associated electric power generating plant and undersea natural gas pipeline and electric transmission line in the Bahamas
• Global power company – LNG purchase agreements for use by two electric power generating plants in the Dominican Republic
• Global power company – LNG supply for a proposed electric generating plant in Honduras
• Global power company – LNG supply for proposed Sparrows Point LNG receiving terminal
• Qatar General Petroleum Corp., the national oil and gas company of Qatar – potential sale of LNG as part of a proposed Qatar-Europe project
• U.S. energy company – LNG SPAs, transportation scheduling agreements, and related documents for the sale of LNG from Venezuela to various receiving terminals in the United States
• U.S. energy company – purchase of LNG from Trinidad for an LNG-fueled electric power generating station in Puerto Rico
• Power Trading Corp. – development of an LNG-fueled power plant and LNG receiving terminal in Pipavov, India
• U.S. energy company – LNG SPA and transportation issues for delivery to Elba Island, Georgia
• U.S. energy company – LNG transportation arrangements for the purchase of LNG from Qatar
• Six Japanese utilities – multiple long-term contracts to purchase LNG from Indonesia and structuring LNG tanker fleet agreements 

Electric Power, Renewable Energy and Conservation

• Clean Economy Network and Clean Economy Action – lead outside counsel to leading organizations promoting development, funding and use of clean energy
• Renewable and efficient energy developers – review power purchase agreements, obtain FERC and state public utility company licenses and approvals, litigate rate cases, review siting agreements, issue legal opinions in connection with financing and negotiate with public utilities, on behalf of multiple developers involved in solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass and cogeneration projects in various U.S. states (including California, New York, Maine and Florida)
• El Paso Natural Gas – project development and financing for a 230-megawatt integrated well-to-wire natural-gas-fueled power project in Aguaytia, Peru; negotiation of $78 million in limited recourse financing for a merchant power plant and political risk insurance from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• Mitsubishi Corp. and Korea Electric Power Corp. – bid for four independent power projects (IPPs) to be built in Saudi Arabia on a build-own-operate-transfer basis
• El Paso Natural Gas – investment in a Samalayuca power project, the first independent power project in Mexico; development of the corporate structure and negotiation of the financing of equity investment
• Saudi Arabian bank – tender for a 200-megawatt IPP in Saudi Arabia
• Indian government-owned electric power company – power purchase agreement and proposal for a new 2,000-megawatt power project in Pipavov, India, the first such project under India's new MegaPower Policy
• El Paso Natural Gas – bid preparation and risk analysis with respect to the first build-own-operate 230-megawatt electric power generation and desalination project in Jordan
• El Paso Natural Gas – bid on the Al Taweelah A2 1,500-megawatt power and desalination project, the first privately owned electricity project in the UAE
• El Paso Natural Gas – review of a power purchase agreement and tender documents for the first independent power project in a Middle Eastern country
• City of San Diego – litigate before FERC and the California Public Utilities Commission in successful opposition to SCE/SDG&E merger, the largest utility merger proposed to that date
• Madison Paper Industries – represent consumer and producer of electric power in hearings before Maine Public Utilities Commission on proposed $1 billion construction of transmission lines and import of electric power from Canada

• Madison Paper Industries – represent consumer and producer of electric power in rate design hearings before the Maine Public Utilities Commission in developing a utility rate structure to incentivize utility efforts to promote conservation of electric power

Natural Gas

• Occidental Petroleum – $5 billion proposed integrated natural gas project in the Middle East
• U.S. financial institution – first waterborne compressed natural gas (CNG) project
• El Paso Natural Gas – bid preparation, risk analysis and corporate structuring for the Samalayuca natural gas pipeline project from the United States to Mexico

• Sponsors of a proposed natural gas pipeline project from Canada to California – counsel regarding structuring the project and state and federal regulatory proceedings

Coal to Gas

• GreatPoint Energy – counsel regarding development of coal gasification projects using leading-edge technology

LPG

• U.S. energy company – LPG fuel supply agreement for an electric power plant in Puerto Rico

Refineries

• Midor Refinery – crude oil sale and refined product purchase agreement for a new refinery in Egypt

Energy Recycling

• Saudi American Bank – $25 million project and corporate financing for a Unilube refining plant for recycling used oil in Saudi Arabia

Other Finance and Investment

• Raytheon Corp. – $1.1 billion financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank for the SIVAM environmental monitoring project in Brazil
• Nordam Corp. – U.S. Export-Import Bank commercial and political risk insurance for a $100 million sale to a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer
• Preussag Stahl AG and Ferralloy Steel North America – $50 million stock purchase agreement with a German steel producer, together with technology transfer and export marketing agreements

Publications, Speeches and Presentations

• "LNG Trading - Finding the Right Legal Approach to Match Your Strategy,” CERAWeek, Houston, February 11, 2009
• Floating Liquefaction: Legal Issues in Developing and Structuring an FLNG Project,” CWC World LNG Conference, Barcelona, December 2008
• Co-Chair, 5th Annual Law of LNG Conference, Houston, September 2008
• “Global Convergence of Terms for the Sale and Purchase of LNG,” GasTech Conference, Bangkok, March 10-13, 2008 
• "LNG Master Sales Agreements (MSAs) and Their Value in a Destination-Flexible LNG Market," Contract Risk Management Master Class, CWC LNG Conference, Barcelona, December 2008
• “Innovation in LNG Supply Contracts and Offtake Strategies,” CWC LNG Conference, Rome, December 2007
• "Smoothing the Ride: Anticipating Gas Price Volatility in Long-Term LNG Sale and Purchase Agreements," Energy Risk Magazine's 11th Annual Energy Risk USA, Houston, May 2007
• "Price Volatility: Easing the Ride," Fundamentals of the Global LNG Industry 2007, a supplement to Petroleum Economist, April 2007 (Jason Bennett, co-author)
• "Negotiating Financeable Sales and Purchase Agreements for LNG" and "Destination Flexible SPAs: Realizing the Benefits of Globally Traded Gas," CWC Conference and Workshops, San Antonio, March 2007