Andres Raul Romero

Andres Romero* is Supervising Counsel with Chevron Corporation’s Enterprise Litigation Group.  He focuses on complex, high-stakes, transnational and cross-border litigation and international arbitration. 

Over his 20-year tenure with Chevron, Mr. Romero has handled transactional matters, negotiations, litigation and arbitration in 26 countries and has worked and lived in the U.S., the U.K., Kazakhstan and Latin America.  Before his current role, Mr. Romero was Legal Manager for Chevron Upstream Europe in Aberdeen, where he managed the legal affairs of the company’s Exploration and Production Divisions in the U.K., the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.  Previously, he served as Deputy General Manager of Negotiations and Legal in Kazakhstan, where he managed the legal affairs of Tengizchevroil, the Chevron-led joint venture in that country.  Before that, he held various in-house positions, providing legal support to business development, commercial activities and operations related to oil, gas and LNG projects and assets in Latin America and the U.S.  Mr. Romero’s transactional experience includes complex international petroleum transactions, host government contracts, joint venture agreements and cross-border unitizations.

Mr. Romero received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Harvard Law School in 2002, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.  He received his first law degree (Juris Doctor equivalent), summa cum laude and Valedictorian, in Venezuela in 1998.  A native of Venezuela, Mr. Romero is admitted to practice in N.Y. and Venezuela.  He is fluent in Spanish (native) and English and has minimal level of Russian, Portuguese and Italian.   

 * Licensed in New York.  Not licensed in California.