Isaac McPherson Gregorie Jr

• Banking & Finance

• Bond Transactions

• Business & Corporate

• Project Development

• Real Estate

Mack Gregorie delivers extensive experience and proven skill in advising on and executing all types of business, corporate, and financing transactions, including large-scale, complex commercial, and industrial real estate finance and project development initiatives. Among Mack’s clientele are major global, national, and local petrochemical clients, worldwide energy producers, renewable solar energy companies, and banks and financial institutions.

Mack represents buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants, and lenders and companies alike. Mack’s transactional real estate experience includes large-scale, heavy industrial petrochemical industry development and solar projects frequently valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Notably, Mack was recently involved in negotiating the largest title insurance policy written in the country at the time involving a $10+ billion Liquified Natural Gas ("LNG") export facility initiative. At the beginning of his career, Mack focused on LNG import projects into the US. Today, he advises on similar deals, but in reverse on the export side. He is particularly effective and knowledgeable due to his hands-on experience on both sides of these transactions.

Moreover, Mack represents banking and other lending institutions on all types of financing deals and in particular, large scale, high dollar value project finance transactions. Mack understands that financial institutions today are focused more on ensuring ROI, which means Mack works with them to conduct a deep level of due diligence and analysis prior to investment.

As a legal strategist and acute and persuasive negotiator, Mack is among only a handful of attorneys in the state who are both qualified and capable of advising on these types of per capita transactions and major development projects. Mack is among the very shortest list of go-to attorneys in Louisiana retained by major AmLaw 100 firms seeking local counsel for their national project finance and development initiatives.

In addition to his law degree, Mack is a Certified Public Accountant. He lectures frequently on real property-related topics, such as real estate purchase and sales agreements, leasing, property law, and recent developments in real estate law and practice. He also serves as a title agent for First American Title Insurance Company, Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, and Chicago Title Insurance Company.

• Member, Baton Rouge Bar Association

• Member, Louisiana State Bar Association

• Member, American Bar Association

• Member, Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute

• Fellow, American College of Real Estate Lawyers

• Fellow, American College of Mortgage Attorneys

• Represented a global methanol supplier as real estate counsel in a deal to acquire an indirect minority equity interest in a $1,850,000,000 methanol production facility in Louisiana. The client will construct, own, and, operate the methanol terminal assets associated with the production facility, in addition to having the exclusive methanol off take rights from the new facility.

• Representation of a global energy and refining company with regard to all aspects of the $550,000,000 expansion in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• Project local counsel for a $10,000,000,000 Liquified Natural Gas export terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The facility will process 1.7 billion cubic feet per day. Kean Miller represented the owner in the transaction as Louisiana real estate counsel, Louisiana energy regulatory counsel, and Louisiana and federal environmental counsel.

• Representation of a regional bank in a financing transaction where a real estate company issued Taxable Variable Rate Securities: The bonds were secured by an irrevocable direct-pay letter of credit issued by the bank.

• Representation of a development corporation in acquisitions, mortgages and sales of shopping center properties: The company’s holdings place it in the top rankings of grocery anchored strip shopping center developers in the United States.