Mehrdad Molaei

Handling and managing all contractual issues of client contracts in the continental Europe including pro and post award issues. The diversity of clients and jurisdictions (34 countries) has added a very interesting and exciting aspect to this job.

Managing and handling all IPM projects contractual issues before and after award for the Middle East and Asia. My role in this job included also participation in early phases of negotiations such as MOU stages or where SLB and clients or potential subcontractors intend to draw outlines of future cooperation. Furthermore replying to clients' tenders and contracts negotiations, contracts drafting (for both clients as well as subcontractors) and managing the contracts during the life of the project were am

Managing all project contractual issues for an offshore field development project. This project was a full fledged field development project consisting of two exploration and development phases. During exploration phase the project contained several drilling activities (including also rig contracting), certain sub-surface, geophysical studies as well as limited downstream components such as surface processing facilities, EPIC (engineering, procurement, installation and commissions/construction) platform con

Tender and contract review, drafting and negotiation for all segments of Schlumberger with several clients including IOCs active in Iran at that time, National Iranian Oil Company and its subsidiaries and other clients.

preparing the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) tender documents and sample contract for a project for construction of a Water Power Plant in Piran and review all legal issues in tendering and contract process.

As a typical export development bank, my client was mandated to provide incentives and also financial means to facilitate exports and also in some cases imports where they were needed to support domestic development projects. One of the main financial means used by this bank was international finance agreement; these agreements were concluded in some cases between two international banks and in some cases between the bank and the projects owners. I took the benefit of a good training provided by this bank o

In this company I had a team of 7 reports in the legal and contracts functions. We were handling different projects awarded by National Iranian Oil Company. One of the main projects was a project of developing 16 oil fields in the west and south of Iran. This project included very early stages of a field development project such as preparing field development plan, updating it by running seismic operations (2D and 3D, onshore and offshore), seismic data processing and interpretation, turnkey/lump sum drilli

My job as the legal advisor had two aspects: 1. Review on certain international contracts/claims related to the Red Crescent Society international transactions where such cases were referred to the legal department. 2. As the Red Crescent representative to form an inter-governmental committee called "National Humanitarian Law Committee". This was an initiative proposed by the International Red Cross (based in Geneva) to the Iranian Government. The Government had requested the Red Crescent to organize this

The Resarch Center of this university had a section on legal studies. In this job I translated some articles on International Law topics from English to Persian for periodicals to be published by thie university and also prepared some papers on different legal topics such as: International humanitarian law and criminal law.