Our Texas energy transactions group is well recognized for its industry experience and handles a wide range of services including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, financings, commercial transactions, and tax structuring.
Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
Looper Goodwine represents both lenders and borrowers in a variety of financing transactions spanning a wide range of industries. We assist our clients in establishing and negotiating a structure, performing due diligence, documenting the transaction, and securing liens in all types of real and personal property. Looper Goodwine counsels lenders and developers, including the negotiation and review of engineering, procurement and construction contracts, throughput agreements, management agreements, and other commercial contracts and ancillary agreements.
Looper Goodwine’s practice area experience includes:
Corporate
Looper Goodwine assists clients with corporate matters and commercial transactions in all aspects of their businesses. We represent public and privately held companies and venture partnerships. Our clients are active in a broad range of industries, including energy, manufacturing, technology, health care, real estate and finance. In addition to handling complex transactions, our firm often acts as outside general counsel, providing advice on daily legal matters and interfacing with management, operations and other personnel.
Looper Goodwine’s practice area experience includes:
International & Global Projects
Looper Goodwine’s lawyers manage international and cross-border projects and assist clients navigating complex multi-jurisdictional rules. We represent both domestic clients investing overseas and international clients investing domestically.
Looper Goodwine has provided legal project management in 35 countries. We counsel clients on compliance with FCPA and the UK Bribery Act and similar anti-corruption statutes. Looper Goodwine structures transactions in accordance with US, EU and United Nations sanctions regulations.
Oil and Gas Transactions
Looper Goodwine’s clients are active in nearly all aspects of the domestic and international energy industry. We represent a broad range of industry participants, including privately owned and publicly traded exploration and production (both onshore and offshore), midstream (infrastructure) and oilfield services companies, equipment manufacturers and distributors, financial institutions, energy-focused lenders and private capital providers and investors.
Looper Goodwine advises domestic and international energy clients on transactional matters across multiple practice areas, including:
Real Estate
Our attorneys represent buyers, owners, sellers, borrowers, lenders, developers and tenants and apply their experience in acquisition, disposition, development, leasing, financing, and construction of real estate assets, both as outside and in-house counsel, to assist our clients in evaluating and effectuating transactions within the United States and abroad. We bring a process-focused approach to ensure our clients’ compliance and efficiency.
Tax
Our attorneys assist clients in implementing efficient tax structures within the scope of their businesses. Looper Goodwine resolves complex tax issues while achieving business objectives. Looper Goodwine’s transactional tax experience includes: