Aaron Koenck is a dispute resolution attorney whose practice focuses on counseling clients in complex, high-stakes disputes in the energy and maritime industries to find business-oriented solutions to their disputes. Aaron brings a comparative law approach to dispute resolution in order to help navigate the risks his clients face.
Due to his work in the energy sector, he was recognized by the Center for American and International Law’s Institute of Energy Law as an Emerging Star in energy law.
Outside the office, he enjoys guest lecturing and writing on emerging international law issues with colleagues around the globe.
Admissions
Texas
Louisiana
District of Columbia
Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales
US District Courts for the Eastern, Western, and Southern Districts of State Texas
US District Courts for the Middle and Eastern Districts of Louisiana
Education
LLM, University of Houston Law Center, 2019
J.D., LSU Law, 2019. Senior Graduate Editor, Journal of Civil Law Studies.
B.A., Louisiana State University, 2016
Memberships
Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN), Young Negotiation Subcommittee Member
National Native American Bar Association, Member
Houston Mariners Club, Board
Institute of Energy Law, Member
Experience
Presentations
Guest Lecturer, “Oil and Gas Disputes,” University of West Indies, April 17, 2024
Guest Lecturer, “US Oil and Gas Leasing,” University of West Indies, October 22, 2024
Co-Presenter, “Same Lawyer, Different Suits: Crossover Strategies for Lawyers Bridging Arbitration and Litigation,” Young ITA and Institute for Energy Law, November 11, 2024
Publications
Co-author, “Royalties in Mature Upstream Oil and Gas Developments: Progression, Reduction or Abolition,” International Review of Law, Qatar University 14 (2025)
Author, “Contentious Aspects of Natural Gas Flaring and Venting in Natural Gas Flaring & Energy Transition Laws, Policies and Regulations” (Kluwer, 2025)
Co-author, “Fostering SDGs via Partnership Risk Sharing, in Energy Law and the Sustainable Development Goals” (Routledge, 2024)
Author, “Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources: What are they and how have they evolved? In Unconventional Resources in the Oil and Gas Industry: Lessons Learnt and Implications for Policy and Legal Frameworks” (Editora Dialética, 2024)
Co-author, “Brazil’s Local Content Requirements Evolution, Lessons Learned & International Trade Limitations,” OIL & GAS, NAT. RESOURCES & ENERGY J. 25 (2024)
Co-author, “Decommissioning Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms: Is the Rigs-To-Reefs Program a More Sustainable Alternative?”, Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES, 2023)
Author, “Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Provisions in Oil & Gas Contracts: Principles & Practice” (3rd ed. Sweet & Maxwell, 2022)
Co-author, “Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources: Legal Challenges and Lessons Learned,” Vol. IV, Ibero-American Yearbook of Energy Law, 2022
Co-author, “Host Government Instruments and Natural Gas Provisions in Natural Gas and Global Energy Transitions," (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Co-author, “Local Content and Sustainable Development in Brazil in Local Content and Sustainable"
"Development in Global Energy Markets" (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Co-author, “Carrot or Stick? Enforcing Compliance with Local Content Requirements in the International Oil and Gas Industry” (OGEL, 2021)
Author, “Arbitration Corruption? The U.S. Fifth Circuit Says No” (Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 2020)
Co-author, “Petroleum Concessions, Licenses and Leases: ‘Same-Same but Different’?” (LSU J. of Energy L. & Resources, 2020)
Co-author, “Host Granting Instrument Models, Why Do They Matter and For Whom,” 6 OIL & GAS, NAT. RESOURCES & ENERGY J. 25 (2020)
