Jon Paul Mouttet

Jon Paul Mouttet
is a Partner in the Firm’s Commercial Department.  He joined the Firm at the end of 2005 and was
initially active in both the Litigation and Commercial Departments but now
concentrates on commercial work and tax litigation.  His practice primarily focuses on industrial
foreign investment projects, energy and tax law.

His clients
include international and local companies involved in oil and gas, power
generation, commodity trading, industrial and manufacturing processes,
quarrying, service companies and local conglomerates operating in various
sectors. 

Mr. Mouttet has over
fifteen years of experience in the energy sector and regularly advises on
petroleum related matters across the value chain, whether it be upstream,
midstream, downstream or service related.
He acts as local counsel to several international oil and gas companies
concerned with upstream exploration and production work in Trinidad and Tobago
and advises on a wide range of local issues; including petroleum legislation,
exploration and production and other licences, production sharing contracts and
sub-licence concessions issued by Petrotrin/Heritage (the State Oil Company). 

In terms of
midstream and downstream energy related foreign investment he has advised on
multiple prospective and actualized energy projects, including those involving
gas sales and petroleum transportation issues, petroleum terminal optimization,
metallics, LNG, CNG, polypropylene, polyethlyne and petrochemicals, the latest
being the establishment of a methanol and di-methyl ether petrochemicals
complex in La Brea.  He has also advised
on a number of sales and acquisition transactions involving power generation
(electricity) assets and has represented power generating concerns (gas powered
and renewable) in Trinidad.

Apart from his
core energy practice he also advises on industrial regulation, tax, joint ventures,
M&A transactions and other commercial/corporate matters and regularly
represents both local and international clients before the Trinidad and Tobago Tax
Appeal Board on contentious appeals against assessments made by the Board of
Inland Revenue.

Jon Paul has also contributed
on Trinidad and Tobago law issues to various publications including the IBA Arbitration Newsletter (2008) and
the World Bank’s Doing Business (2007
and 2012).  His latest contributions
relate to his co-authorship of the Trinidad and Tobago chapters of Chambers and Partners, Energy Oil & Gas
(2019) and The Oil and Gas Law
Review, 6th-8th Editions (2019-2020).  

Jon Paul sits
on several boards and is a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Energy Chamber’s
Fiscal Reform Taskforce for the energy sector. He is also routinely recognized by Chambers and Partners as a leading lawyer for business.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Energy, Oil and Gas, Tax (contentious and non-contentious),
Commercial/Corporate, Foreign Investment, Health Safety and Environment (HSE).

ADMISSIONS

Trinidad and Tobago – 2005

Guyana -2021

EDUCATION

University of the West Indies – LL.B., Hugh Wooding Law
School – LEC, King’s College London – LL.M.

PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS

Trinidad
and Tobago Law Association, The Association of International Energy
Negotiators.

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