Andrew Derman is an energy attorney in Holland & Knight’s Dallas office, where he concentrates his practice on oil and gas investment projects and cross-border transactions. Derman is the leader of the firm’s international energy practice. He is board-certified in oil, gas, and mineral law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Derman provides strategic commercial and business advice, as well as legal and commercial support, related to acquisitions, divestments, trades and mergers; large infrastructure projects, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), gas-to-liquids (GTL), geothermal, midstream, water purification and refineries; nationalization/expropriation; anti-corruption/Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and sanctions; unitizations; onshore and offshore boundary disputes; exploration, development and production operations; production-sharing contracts; negotiations; and dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, and expert testimony.

Derman has assisted clients in more than eighty countries on six continents and offers clients a comprehensive understanding of oil and gas activities through experience with a broad spectrum of countries and companies. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, he served as in-house counsel and later as an executive for a large international oil and gas company for nearly twenty years. In addition to traditional legal representation, Derman also counsels clients on business development and commercial matters, including the identification and capture of oil and gas opportunities.

Derman is a frequent teacher and lecturer at conferences, seminars, and universities on oil-and-gas-related topics. For more than thirty years, he has taught the full scope of oil and gas contracts, including host government contracts (production-sharing, concession, license and service agreements) and industry contracts (joint operating agreements, accounting procedures, confidentiality agreements, study and bidding agreements, lifting agreements, farm-in and participation agreements, unitization agreements, infrastructure contracts, and LNG contracts, etc.).

Derman was an event speaker at the Dialogue.