John V. Lonsberg Email Address

Chief Legal Counsel

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. He has also during that period practiced and managed legal practices in the UK and 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 has advised 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 conducted related investigations for many clients in dozens of jurisdictions across the globe. He has represented numerous international and regional defense and technology companies in connection with governmental sales whether conducted 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. This has encompassed both military and commercial aviation, and land and naval systems. He also has extensive commercial aviation experience relating to development programs, sales and MRO. 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 international 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 before the United Nations against Iraq relating to the invasion and occupation of Kuwait. He also advised Saudi Arabia on its Gulf War environmental claims.