Frasers Law Company is adding Gwendoline Yi-Quin (Gwen) Brooker as a partner in its expanding Hanoi office. Brooker has worked for 23 years at TotalEnergies and 16 years at ExxonMobil, bringing more than 35 years of experience in transactional work in the oil and gas industry across the board from upstream to refining and chemical, marketing and, lately, renewables. She spent the past six years working on high-value international arbitrations and ADR, spanning from institutional mediations to participating in settlement negotiations. Her transactional work includes M&A, complex structuring and restructuring of cross-border transactions, and procurement contracts for multibillion dollar infrastructure facilities. In so doing, Brooker has built up a vast network in working hand in hand with NOCs, and has been credited with possessing good working relationships with NOCs. Lately, her work expanded onto the emerging energy transition issues with a focus on ESG regulations related to climate change and defamation. During her career, Brooker has been based in the UK, France, Singapore, Indonesia and the USA, and has advised on projects and complex transactions in every continent. Along with a successful history of building strong teams of talented young lawyers, she is very hands-on, highly responsive, and has a reputation of being a legal adviser with an acute focus on resolving business issues. She will be integrating a pragmatic business approach to the practice of law at Frasers.
