Seth Levine

About Seth Levine

Who I am: I am a business lawyer, with a degree in finance, and licensed Louisiana real estate broker with a decade of experience guiding clients through commercial transactions that are often complex and crucial to a company’s success. A partner in the New Orleans office of Jones Walker LLP, I work with exploration and production, hospitality, real estate development, and manufacturing companies as well as national and local lenders. What I do: My client service philosophy is always to leverage my experience and my firm’s network of knowledge to find the best approach to any transaction. My goal is to find the most efficient and, when appropriate, creative way to meet a client’s objective. I handle real estate acquisitions and dispositions, commercial office and industrial leasing, real estate development, business formation and corporate governance matters. I have experience in securing and structuring financing for companies, purchasing and selling all types of property, organizing companies of all sizes, financing various types of transactions, and executing all aspects of a real estate deals, landlord/tenant disputes, foreclosures, work-outs, and bankruptcies. In the energy industry, I have specific experience in negotiating Master Service Contracts (MSCs), Master Service Agreement (MSAs), vendor supply agreements, pipeline servitude and construction agreements, and production, handling, processing, and transportation agreements, offshore platform construction/financing, LNG facilities and drilling contracts. Value I bring: I am a dealmaker’s lawyer, accessible 24 hours a day, who will see a project through to the finish line. I make certain that all details - large and small, financial to contractual - are viewed with careful eyes and thought through from every potential angle.

Experience

1. Partner

   Jones Walker LLP

   Jan 2010 — Present · New Orleans, LA, US

   Energy Experience• Serve as LA counsel to lenders for development and construction of $9 billion 3 train LNG facility, review and analysis of 19 lease, fee and servitude tracts, title matters (insurance, endorsements, survey, zoning, water rights, mineral title and mechanic\'s liens); EPC contracts, opinions, security/collateral documents; diligence memos; environmental and regulatory review; state and local tax analysis; coast guard and maritime review.• Served as lead project development and finance counsel for construction and private equity financing of $900 million offshore floating production platform and gas and oil export pipelines involving multiple leases and working interest owners, including negotiation and drafting of production handling agreements; oil and gas transportation agreements; facilities agreement; connection agreement; platform and export pipeline operating agreements; defense and indemnity agreements; BOEM memorandum, and UOAs, JOAs and amendments; and override agreements. Also counsel for subsequent refinancing.• Served as co-counsel for natural gas pipeline company for construction, development and permitting of a $1 billion dollar natural gas pipeline expansion.• Served as co-counsel for natural gas storage company in connection with financing, construction, development and permitting of a $250 million salt cavern natural gas storage facility, including $120 million credit facility, lease/fee/servitude acquisition for pipeline, meter, caverns and gas storage agreements, governmental relations and expropriation.Real Estate and Finance Experience • Counsel to a. purchaser in connection with $45 million residential apartment complex acquisition through series of membership/stock acquisitions in work-out context –closed within 2 weeks of LOI, b. lender in connection with $17 million refi of 2 nat’l flag hotels c. Less(ees)(ors) for commercial, office, retail and industrial property.

Education

• Tulane University Law School

  Juris Doctor (J.D.)

  1999 — 2001

• New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  1994 — 1998

• Universiteit Maastricht, International

  Business and Finance

  1998 — 1998

Skills

• Bank Financing and Refinancing
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
• Oil & Gas
• Corporate Law
• Pipeline
• Permitting, Zoning and Land Use
• New Market Tax Credits (Nmtc) Financing
• Private Equity
• Processing, Transportation, Gathering, and Drilling
• Business Formation
• Financing
• Real Estate Transactions
• Offshore Oil and Gas Production Platforms
• Energy
• Development, Financing of Loans
• Mscs, Msas, Contract Award Letters, Vendor Supply Agreements
• Title/Survey Review, Opinions and Title Policies
• Lng
• Liquid and Gas Storage