Andrew Bernstein is an international lawyer whose practice focuses on transactions and disputes for sovereign clients involving extractive industries and financings, as well as international capital markets transactions. He is Senior Counsel at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, resident in Paris. His experience includes representing the Republic of Iraq in transactions to capture and utilize associated gas, upstream hydrocarbon projects international bond offerings, and disputes. He has also represented the Republic of Lebanon in offshore gas licensing and debt restructuring, the Republic of Senegal in offshore oil and gas transactions and intergovernmental agreements, the Republic of Slovenia in debt restructuring and financing transactions, and the Russian Federation and Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (in each case prior to the current regimes) in hydrocarbon transactions, financings, and international disputes. He has also worked for major French banks and companies on international capital markets transactions for more than 25 years. He is a member of the Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris (High Paris Market Financial Markets Law Committee), a former member of the Wolters Kluwer Securities Market Advisory Board, and a Visiting Lecturer at Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. He has an A.B. degree from Harvard College and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School, and is a member of the New York and Paris bars.