Jack J Langlois

Practice Areas

Partner Jack Langlois is the office managing partner for Houston. Jack focuses his practice on energy related matters, including upstream, midstream and downstream. He advises clients on investments in and financings of energy projects and assets, including, mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions and dispositions of assets and stock of energy companies. Jack represents public and private companies, private equity investors, lenders, governments and national oil companies in a number of substantial domestic and international corporate transactions. Jack advises on mineral exploration and development projects, including matters involving acquisition of exploration and development rights, pipelines, gathering, transportation, processing, storage, and other infrastructure.

Jack has experience representing oil and gas production companies in connection with the acquisition of oil and gas properties. Jack also represents banks in connection with production payment acquisition and financing, and independent oil companies in the sale of overriding royalty interests to qualified investment buyers.

Jack has significant experience handling international transactions, including representing drilling companies in connection with sales of drilling rigs in Brazil, Canada and Greece, and representing power producers with the development and financing of power projects in Latin America. He also represented state oil companies and Western and Russian companies in connection with negotiations for development of Caspian Sea oil fields.

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Career

Jack Langlois is Managing Partner of DLA Piper's Houston Office and US Co-Chaor of the firm's Energy Sector. He has served as lead counsel representing governments, public and private companies, lenders and private equity investors in a number of substantial domestic and international corporate transactions.

Jack has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of assets and stock of energy companies, acquisitions of exploration rights from sovereigns, joint ventures and investments in and financings of energy projects, including mineral exploration and development projects, production sharing agreements, concessions, licenses, pipelines, refineries, power plants and drilling rigs. His clients include leaders in the energy industry.

Personal

J.D., Louisiana State University Law Center 1979; B.A., University of Southwestern Louisiana 1976; Faculté de droit d'Aix-en-Provence, France