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Energy Transactions

Practices

  • Energy – Transactional
  • Title Examination
  • Pipeline Servitude, Rights-of-way, Easements & Expropriation
  • Energy – Litigation
  • Energy – Regulatory

Our team anticipates every detail of the deal by bringing together the right team of lawyers with deep substantive knowledge and regulatory relationships. Our clients trust us not just with their business, but with their future.

Overview

As transactional counsel, we approach each deal with a commitment to achieving a successful and satisfactory outcome for our clients, who count on our responsiveness and dedication to their deals as they would on their own in-house counsel. Recognizing that client collaboration is key to any successful transaction, we work with and counsel our clients from beginning to end of each deal. We understand our energy clients’ primary business drivers and expectations and the significant challenges facing them on a daily basis. We are in a position to focus on the critical nuances unique to every deal while keeping the big picture in mind.

Our team of dedicated and highly experienced attorneys has successfully completed a variety of deals, representing clients from all sectors of the energy industry – including oil and gas exploration and production companies, pipeline companies, oilfield services companies, renewable energy companies, and financial institutions and investors. Whether it is a complex financing transaction, an acquisition or divestiture of mineral properties, a business and tax structuring or restructuring for joint ventures, risk allocation, insurance and indemnitees, or negotiation of an entire suite of agreements needed for onshore and offshore oil and gas, renewable energy, or carbon capture operations, our experience and knowledge allows us to put the right team of lawyers in place to get the deal done.

Making the best deal 

As dealmakers, we do not like surprises, but we are prepared for them. We rely on the depth and breadth of our knowledge to understand our clients’ goals and to foresee the direction of the deal and the possible challenges along the way. Knowing that outside factors can cause deals to go awry, we anticipate issues before they arise and plan for the steps we need to take to resolve problems should they occur. When we structure an acquisition, joint venture, or farmout, we do so in a tax-efficient way, while also addressing financing requirements, environmental issues, indemnities and insurance, prospective liabilities, and insolvency contingencies. In other words, we help our clients assess and minimize risk present in their deals in the most cost-effective and forward-looking manner.  

Beyond the deal 

We think about the long term – well beyond advising on the transaction at hand. While we cannot predict the future, we can give clients an up-to-date perspective on what the latest developments and legislation mean for their business.  

We are known for these strengths

  • We work on onshore and offshore operations of domestic and international clients – from small and mid-sized to the world’s largest integrated energy companies. These deals include exploration, production, processing, sale, and distribution of oil and natural gas and related products. They also include acquisition of surface rights and underground storage rights for renewable energy and carbon capture projects, as well as negotiating engineering, procurement and construction and offtake agreements for such projects.
  • We are creative: we can help our clients pool capital and spread risk with the formation of contractual joint ventures, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and other business enterprises.
  • Efficient staffing means we bring together the right team to represent our clients in various types of financing, including mortgages and other secured loans, UCC equipment financing transactions, mezzanine loans, farmouts and production payments.
  • Our lawyers have previous experience as geologists and in-house counsel and have held various positions at regulatory agencies and in local government. Our relationships with the regulatory authorities date back to the inception of our firm 90 years ago. This experience allows us to anticipate a broad range of issues in a transaction.
  • Our collaborative approach allows us to find the right attorney for any type of legal matter. Should a deal end up in dispute, our litigators can draw on the firm’s historical experiences in energy litigation, which includes acting as counsel on a number of landmark decisions.
Outstanding reputation for its longstanding prominence in the oil and gas market.
Chambers USA Review
Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas-Louisiana

Initial Contacts

  • Kathleen Doody
    kldoody@liskow.com
    504.299.6115504.299.6115
  • Jana Grauberger
    jlgrauberger@liskow.com
    713.651.2906713.651.2906
  • Marilyn Maloney
    mcmaloney@liskow.com
    713.651.2938713.651.2938

Our Team

Shareholders

  • Media item displaying: Kathleen L. Doody

    Kathleen L. Doody

    Shareholder

    New Orleans
    504.299.6115504.299.6115
    995
  • Media item displaying: Jana Grauberger

    Jana Grauberger

    Shareholder

    Houston
    713.651.2906713.651.2906
    995
  • Media item displaying: Greg L. Johnson

    Greg L. Johnson

    Shareholder

    New Orleans
    504.556.4115504.556.4115
    995
  • Media item displaying: Jamie D. Rhymes

    Jamie D. Rhymes

    Shareholder

    Lafayette
    337.267.2360337.267.2360
    995

Of Counsel

  • Media item displaying: John T. Bradford

    John T. Bradford

    Of Counsel

    Houston
    713.651.2984713.651.2984
    995
  • Media item displaying: Marilyn C. Maloney

    Marilyn C. Maloney

    Of Counsel

    Houston
    713.651.2938713.651.2938
    995
  • Media item displaying: Shawn Carney Rhymes

    Shawn Carney Rhymes

    Of Counsel

    Lafayette
    337.267.2325337.267.2325
    995

Associates

  • Media item displaying: Bradford T. Laperouse

    Bradford T. Laperouse

    Associate

    Houston
    713.651.2955713.651.2955
    995
  • Media item displaying: Emily von Qualen

    Emily von Qualen

    Associate

    New Orleans
    504.556.4129504.556.4129
    995

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