Gwendoline Brooker

Gwendoline (Gwen) Brooker is a partner based in the Hanoi office. 

Prior to joining Frasers, Gwen worked for 23 years at TotalEnergies SE and 16 years at ExxonMobil Corp. With 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 latterly, renewables, she spent several years working on high-value international arbitrations and ADR spanning from institutional mediations and to participating in settlement negotiations. Her transactional work includes M&A, complex structuring and restructuring of cross-border transactions, and procurement contracts for multi-billion-dollar infrastructure facilities.

Gwen has built up a vast network of working hand in hand with NOCs and has been widely credited with possessing good working relationships with NOCs. Latterly, her work expanded onto the emerging energy transition issues with a focus on ESG regulations related to climate change and defamation.

During her career, Gwen 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, Gwen is very hands-on, highly responsive, and has a reputation of being a legal adviser with an acute focus on resolving business issues.