John V. Lonsberg Email Address

Partner-in-Charge, Middle East

Legal counsel and advice in virtually every area of interest to business and entrepreneurial clients.

John Lonsberg has been engaged in an international transaction, regulatory and dispute resolution practice since 1979. He has extensive experience in the Middle East where he has been resident since 1980, including in Saudi Arabia for a period of ten years. He has also practiced throughout Asia and Europe since the mid-1980’s. John’s commercial practice concentrates on international commercial transactions, including the negotiation of manufacturing strategic alliances in the aerospace, petrochemical and high-technology industries in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. He also advises international and Middle Eastern clients on matters relating to the establishment of joint ventures, distribution arrangements, and the regulation of business activities, including the satisfaction of foreign investment, local law and fiscal requirements. He has represented numerous international defense and technology companies in connection with governmental sales whether on a direct or a foreign military sales basis. That representation includes advising on the equipment and service provision aspects of the transaction, advising on local and U.S. regulatory issues, and assisting in the structuring and satisfaction of offset and local manufacturing requirements. John has extensive energy experience, including the negotiation of upstream transactions and advising service and equipment supply companies relating to the conduct of their operations in the Middle East and elsewhere. John has represented many clients in connection with international dispute resolution, whether conducted locally in the Middle East or pursuant to foreign arbitration. Subsequent to the 1991 Gulf War, John led a multidisciplinary team of over 150 international and Kuwaiti professionals (attorneys, accountants and engineers) that advised, prepared and resolved approximately $100 billion of claims for the Government of Kuwait against Iraq relating to the invasion and occupation of Kuwait.