Event Overview
This course will discuss long-term policy developments in the natural gas and energy sector, including the impact of new government policies in 2025 including the impact on LNG trading of US Exports. It will also discuss global issues of supply and demand, contract issues, and mechanisms to avoid risk of nondelivery, force majeure, and even damage and risk mitigation clauses, in energy contracts. Given the international nature of the US Energy business, it will also focus on international arbitration issues – the type of dispute resolution often required by overseas partners, buyers and sellers.
Attendees will receive 1.25 Professional Development Hours (PDH) upon completion.
Learning Objectives
- Update on key U.S. government energy policies in 2025 under new administration and the state of the global market
- Example of rapidly expanding LNG exports from the U.S. with high global demand.
- The impact of new policies in other energy sectors, including renewables.
- Ways to mitigate risks and handle potential issues because of the new government policies.
- Potential investment arbitration issues in the new US Energy industry environment.
Who Should Attend
Anyone in the Natural Gas LNG, or other fuel industries who are involved in contracts domestically or abroad, on how to mitigate risks under the new US Administration, and for those with international transaction.
Meet the Instructor
Tom Kruse
Partner-Houston, Arnold & Porter
C. Thomas Kruse is a recognized litigator with three decades of experience as lead counsel representing clients in commercial matters in federal and state courts — both in jury and bench trials and in appeals — as well as in high-value, out-of-court arbitrations in national and cross-border disputes. Board-certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Tom excels in representing clients in the energy (oil & gas and alternative sources), engineering, manufacturing, and medical, among other industries. He also represents clients before the ICC Court of Arbitration and in American Arbitration Association disputes. In addition to benefiting from his courtroom and arbitration skills, clients also turn to Tom for assistance in matters with both long- and short-term implications, including advice before disputes arise and litigation avoidance whenever possible.
Meet the Instructor
Ávalro Nistal
Partner-London, Arnold & Porter
Álvaro Nistal focuses his practice on international investment law and public international law. He has represented sovereign States and commercial entities in numerous arbitrations governed by the ICSID, PCA, SCC, UNCITRAL, and ICC rules. He also has advised clients on nearly a dozen International Court of Justice proceedings, as well as on multiple other international disputes litigated before the International Criminal Court, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a range of UN bodies, and national courts of various States. Álvaro has participated in adversarial proceedings conducted in English, Spanish, and French for States and private clients from the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Álvaro also has advised sovereign States, international organizations, and private clients on a wide range of public international law matters, including negotiations of investment treaties, investment restructuring, enforcement of arbitral awards, exploitation of natural resources in disputed areas, sanctions, international trade law, treaty law, sovereign and diplomatic immunities, statehood, land and maritime delimitation, human rights, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and sovereignty issues.
Álvaro is a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, where he teaches Oceans Governance. He also has taught public international law and international investment law at Queen Mary University of London, King’s College London, SOAS University of London, Universidad Iberoamericana, and other leading universities. Álvaro is a frequent speaker at international conferences and regularly provides training to senior public officials and the legal departments of global corporations. He also has published a book chapter on sovereign immunities and investor-State awards, as well as articles on issues such as international dispute resolution, the law of the sea, the international law implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and business and human rights.
