J. Michael Farrell, who has been engaged in private practices of law in Washington, D.C. for 35 years, primarily focuses on energy, international trade, environmental, corporate, legislative and administrative law. In the energy sector, Mr. Farrell specializes in the exploration, development, production, transportation and distribution of petroleum and petroleum products. He advises and represents international water purification and wastewater management companies in privatization proceedings in the Americas, Central Europe and Asia and specializes in international arbitration and laws involving emerging markets. Mr. Farrell was Counsel to the Natural Resources section of the Reagan Transition Team and continued to serve the administration as Private Sector Coordinator of the Caribbean Basin Initiative at the Department of State; Deputy Director, Office of Presidential
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Personnel; Assistant Counsel, Office of the Counsel to the President; and General Counsel for the U.S. Department where he was a principal spokesman, appearing before Congressional committees on oil policy, import controls, Price Anderson renewal, technology transfer and energy security. Having been appointed as Deputy Commissioner in 1988, in 1992 he was appointed Commissioner of the United States of America on the Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal. He became Chairman of the Commission in 1993. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a Director of the US-Panama Business Council, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, and the Air Force Academy Foundation. Mr. Farrell currently serves as General Counsel and Director of Integrated Infrastructure Analytics, Inc. |
