Education
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Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 1977
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Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A., Honors in Latin American Studies, 1974
Bar Admissions
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District of Columbia
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New York
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Martha Salper is an of counsel in the New York office of Patton Boggs where she advises Total S.A. on public policy matters related to the oil and gas industry.
Before joining Patton Boggs, Ms. Salper was a senior attorney in the upstream division of Total S.A. in Paris. During her time at Total, she was responsible for structuring, drafting, and negotiating international oil, gas, and electricity projects, and overseeing major litigation against the company.
Ms. Salper also has experience working at a large French law firm and at Thomson in Paris, where she was the chief lawyer and negotiator for the company in the creation and restructuring of two joint ventures with Japanese partners, and worked on international acquisitions; contracts and negotiations; and corporate, finance, and antitrust matters.
Fluent in French and conversant in Spanish and Italian, Ms. Salper has served as a lecturer on international business at the ISTEC Business School in Paris.
Representative Matters
- She served as legal representative of Total S.A. in the “Kashagan” consortium, a multi-party consortium holding a production sharing agreement for the Kazakhstan sector of the North Caspian Sea. The agreement, one of the most important and complex of its kind, was signed in 1997 after long negotiations. She chaired the group of lawyers of the consortium (including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and others) responsible for continued negotiating with the government of Kazakhstan, drafting further documents, resolving internal and external conflicts, finding consensus within the consortium, and advising consortium directors.
- She was responsible for the legal work involved in Total S.A.’s farm-in into a major offshore gas field in Australia, including the negotiation of a joint operating agreement and associated liquefied natural gas facilities.
- She was responsible for handling the defense within Total S.A. in a major U.S.-based lawsuit against the company, in which billions of dollars were at stake. The case was dismissed with prejudice, and the dismissal was upheld on appeal at the Federal Circuit Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.
- She oversaw the legal work involved in the development and negotiation of export routes and facilities for a heavy oil project in Europe.
- She participated in the structuring, drafting, and negotiating of diverse oil, gas (pipeline, LPG, and LNG), and electricity projects on a world-wide basis, including the structuring of project finance involving commercial banks, export credit agencies, and intergovernmental bodies.
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