Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Joseph Bell has more than 35 years of regulatory and commercial experience in the energy field, domestically and internationally.

He has been involved in a wide variety of business and financial transactions, including project financing of energy facilities, and has been a leading regulatory advocate for the introduction of competition into the natural gas and electricity markets, representing one of the first entities to make market sales of natural gas in the interstate market and filing the first market-based tariff for electricity marketers in the United States. He also has considerable practical and legal experience with the international oil market.

In addition to his energy practice, Joe has been actively engaged in various aspects of privatization and institutional change in central Europe. In 1991 he established Hogan & Hartson’s Warsaw office. During that time, he was also active in Ukraine, and was a co-founder and member of the Advisory Board of the Project on Economic Reform in Ukraine.

In recent years he has provided advice with regard to oil and mining policy in a number of developing countries, working in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This advice has extended to tax and royalty policies, stabilization agreements, and other economic issues related to large concessions. He has also advised with respect to the establishment of petroleum revenue management funds and general issues of transparency and governance.

Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Joe was Assistant General Counsel in the Federal Energy Administration responsible for international matters. He also was previously on the faculty at the Duke Law School and the Duke Public Policy Institute. Earlier, he was an attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Justice Department and a staff member of the Cabinet Task Force on Oil Import Control. He also worked as an economist on domestic and international tax policy issues at the U.S. Treasury.

Areas of Practice

• Project and International Finance
• Energy
• Business, Finance, and Tax
• India
• Middle East

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts, 1968
• District of Columbia, 1977

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The District of Columbia Bar (Member)
• Federal Energy Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member, Administrative Law Section)
• American Bar Association (Member, International Law Section)
• American Bar Association (Member, Natural Resource Law Section)
• American Bar Association (Member, Administrative Law)
• Polish Ministry of Finance, 1989 - Present (Advisor)

Honors and Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America, 2006
• Chambers USA, Energy: Electricity, 2004 - 2006
• Federal Energy Administration, Distinguished Service Award, 1976
• U.S. Department of Justice, Outstanding Service Award, 1972

Classes and Seminars

• Assistant Professor, Duke Law School and Institute of Policy Studies, 1972 - 1974

Past Employment Positions

• Cabinet Task Force on Oil Import Controls, Attorney, 1969
• Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, Attorney, 1970 - 1972
• International and Special Programs, Federal Energy Administration, Assistant General Counsel, 1974 - 1977

Education

• Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1968
  J.D.,
  
  Law Review: Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1967 - 1968
• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965
  M.A., Master of Arts
  Honors: Economics
• University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1962
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: summa cum laude

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